I have seen the science I worshiped, and the aircraft I loved, destroying the civilization I expected them to serve. — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
As Gandhi famously responded when asked about "Western civilization," "I wish they had one," the same applies to "international community": "I wish… — Richard A. Falk Copy Share Image
“The earth is an orbiting speck in incomprehensible vastness. The histories of our civilizations, our accomplishments and secrets, great good and evil—these… — Christopher Hawke Copy Share Image
I have given up the ambition to be a great scholar. I want to be more- simply a human. . . .… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
Humor has been a fashioning instrument in America, cleaving its way through the national life, holding tenaciously to the spread elements of… — Constance Rourke Copy Share Image
What a commentary on our civilization, when being alone is considered suspect; when one has to apologize for it, make excuses, hide… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
The American economic, political, and social organization has given to its citizens the benefits of material prosperity, political liberty, and a wholesome… — Herbert Croly Copy Share Image
It has been estimated that one third of our Western civilization bears the mark of its Jewish ancestry. — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
All right, so there he is, our representative to the world, Mr. Western Civilization, in codpiece and pantyhose up there on the… — Marvin Mudrick Copy Share Image
Now, more than ever, we need people in space... The events of September 11 show us how vulnerable we and our civilization… — Paul Levinson Copy Share Image
To a great extent the achievements of invention, of mechanical and of artistic creation, must of necessity, and rightly, be individual rather… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The disastrous feature of our civilization is that it is far more developed materially than spiritually. Its balance is disturbed. — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
The Logos is a voice heard, in the head. And the Logos was the hand on the rudder of human civilization for… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Ah, there's nothing like tea in the afternoon. When the British Empire collapses, historians will find that it had made but two… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I don't agree with you in saying that in all human minds there is poetry. Man as he came from the hand… — John Muir Copy Share Image
Life was dense, dark, ancient. They watched Dean, serious and insane at his raving wheel, with eyes of hawks. All had their… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
The human drama is reaching its denouement. The great unveiling is approaching, a time when the power structures of the world begin… — Anodea Judith Copy Share Image
The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers. — William James Copy Share Image
The Bhagavad-Gita is a true scripture of the human race a living creation rather than a book, with a new message for… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
"Motherboard," for me, has four different levels: the bottom part is the water, vegetation, and growth. The second part is the world… — Ali Banisadr Copy Share Image
As Mazzini said ... it is around the standard of duty rather than around the standard of self-interest that men must rally… — Henry George Copy Share Image
“The attempt made in recent decades by secularist thinkers to disengage the moral principles of western civilization from their scripturally based religious… — Will Herberg Copy Share Image
Without metaphor the handling of general concepts such as culture and civilization becomes impossible, and that of disease and disorder is the… — Johan Huizinga Copy Share Image
The rise and fall of civilizations in the long, broad course of history can be seen to have been largely a function… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Yet birth, and lust, and illness, and death are changeless things, and when one of these harsh facts springs out upon a… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
Cars are the most central thing in America, in a lot of ways. They've probably influenced the way we live more than… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
What leaders have to remember is that somewhere under the somnolent surface is the creature that builds civilizations, the dreamer of dreams,… — John W. Gardner Copy Share Image
The problem here is that a civilization that is 1,000 light years away doesn't know we exist. They don't know that we… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
California, that advance post of our civilization, with its huge aircraft factories, TV and film studios, automobile way of life... its flavourless… — J. B. Priestley Copy Share Image
America is experiencing an Islamist cultural-political offensive designed to undermine and destroy our civilization. — Newt Gingrich Copy Share Image
“The law. we are told, is what makes us men under God instead of beasts in the ditch” — Bernard Cornwell Copy Share Image
We are reminded repeatedly, often by older men, that western civilization has died on the altar of social media. — Michelle Dean Copy Share Image
The climate of Ohio is perfect, considered as the home of an ideal republican people. Climate has much to do with national… — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
Fire, ice, asteroids and pole shifts are bogeymen with which we distract ourselves from the real threat of our time. In an… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
This civilization is rapidly passing away, however. Let us rejoice or else lament the fact as much as everyone of us likes;… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I am well acquainted with all the arguments against freedom of thought and speech - the arguments which claim that it cannot… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Once, headed uptown on the 9 train, I noticed a sign posted by the Metropolitan Transit Authority advising subway riders who might… — Sarah Vowell Copy Share Image
Tenderness has created the first 'social order' - that of the mother with her offspring. Through motherliness, woman later makes her great… — Ellen Key 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
