Taken over the centuries, scientific ideas have exerted a force on our civilization fully as great as the more tangible practical applications… — I. Bernard Cohen Copy Share Image
Books are precious things, but more than that, they are the strong backbone of civilization. They are the thread upon which it… — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
Business as usual doesn't work, that we're in a time where we have to rethink a lot of the basic ground rules… — Justin Trudeau Copy Share Image
I think love is the most unbelievable, and critical, thing in civilization. Everything else is very mechanical and predictable, but love, you… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
It is an altogether wrong idea that the modern product of civilization is less susceptible to love. I sometimes think it is… — Henryk Sienkiewicz Copy Share Image
Classes struggle, some classes triumph, others are eliminated. Such is history; such is the history of civilization for thousands of years. — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
It was very relaxing to be away from civilization, and this bothered me. I should not have found the loneliness so welcoming. — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
Don't blame me. Tell your mom to move closer. Tell her there's this new club called civilization and you guys should join. — Becca Fitzpatrick Copy Share Image
We are in an unusual predicament as a global civilization. The maximum that is politically feasible, even the maximum that is politically… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
We are the first atheistic and global, all-embracing civilization. You cannot tell whether you are sitting at an airport in Hong Kong… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
Our Republic is not a pastoral, not a military, not an agricultural, not a nomadic, not a clerical, but a business civilization.… — Margaret Halsey Copy Share Image
“The subtle and deadly change of heart that might occur in you would be involved with the realization that a civilization is… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
The unions are the first feeble effort to conquer the industrial jungle for democratic life. They may not succeed, but if they… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
It seems to me that there must be an ecological limit to the number of paper pushers the earth can sustain, and… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
We could tell them [alien civilization] things that we have discovered in the realm of mathematical physics, but there is stuff that… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
Humanity faces a quantum leap forward. It faces the deepest social upheaval and creative restructuring of all time. Without clearly recognizing it,… — Alvin Toffler Copy Share Image
East India Company were a huge multinational that had the added impetus that they felt they were spreading Christian civilization around the… — Steven Knight Copy Share Image
Ten thousand years from now our civilization will have passed without leaving a trace. A new race of people will inhabit the… — Gutzon Borglum Copy Share Image
Ours is not so much an age of vulgarity as of vulgarization; everything is tampered with or touched up, or adulterated or… — Louis Kronenberger Copy Share Image
Some of us worry about a resurgent Islam and its attendant complications for a decayed Western civilization; some of us worry about… — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
Destroying white civilization is the inmost desire of the league of designated victims we call minorities. — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image
If civilization has an opposite, it is war. Of these two things, you have either one, or the other. Not both. — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Human civilization as we know it is like the Titanic headed for the iceberg, whether the iceberg be nuclear, environmental or terrorism-related. — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
“Even for a well-to-do city family, making life comfortable is a problem. But arriving at a point where comfort becomes a problem… — Joseph Gies Copy Share Image
The spiritual sense of our place in nature... can be traced to the origins of human civilization... The last vestige of organized… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
Every civilization is founded on sins - every single one. Dispossession, violence, appropriation. What distinguishes civilizations are the ones who rise above… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
“The barbarian either totally mocks or totally worships. Civilization is a smile that discreetly combines irony and respect.” — Nicolás Gómez Dávila Copy Share Image
Is there any man here or any woman, let me say is there any child here, who does not know that the… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
The civilization of cities is breeding a new race of monks who have none of the original religious drive towards chastity, but… — Kylie Tennant Copy Share Image
Our civilization is now in the transition stage between the age of warring empires and a new age of world unity and… — John Boyd Orr Copy Share Image
The United States, knowing no distinction of her own citizens on account of religion or nationality, naturally believes in a civilization the… — Ulysses S. Grant Copy Share Image
All creatures tread across the rubble of ruined civilizations. The trick is to keep moving. No animal ever goes about dispensing shallow… — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
Every civilization is, among other things, an arrangement for domesticating the passions and setting them to do useful work. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
I must try to be alone for part of each year...and part of each day...in order to keep my core, my center...Women… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
When you look on one of your contemporary 'good copies' of historical remains, ask yourself the question: Not what style, but in… — Louis Sullivan Copy Share Image
What passes for education, culture or maturity in most minds is merely how individuals want to think of themselves, a contrived egocentric… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
And again, we're kind of trying to be in that place, that's just so absurd and irreverent and hysterical and it's something… — Brian Henson Copy Share Image
We're addicted to this concept of civilization - we can't imagine living outside of it because we've had it for 10,000 years,… — Serj Tankian Copy Share Image
But science is the great instrument of social change, all the greater because its object is not change but knowledge, and its… — Arthur Balfour Copy Share Image
To mistake ugliness for reality is one of the frauds of the realistic school [of writing]. A hunger for the unknown and… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
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