So the conclusion that I reach, visa vie the individual and civilization, is this: Culture is not our friend. Culture is not… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
It is the mass dream of inverted self, populous with fears overt and secret, that forms the continuous but gossamer thread upon… — Louis Sullivan Copy Share Image
It is suggested that all written works, including this one, have dangerous implications to the vitality of an oral tradition and to… — Harold Innis Copy Share Image
The idea of a group of elders is that, in past civilizations, they have linked worlds; the other world was also present… — Jacques Yves Cousteau Copy Share Image
What I question is the extent to which any of us truly knows what the facts really are. I mistrust every ideal… — Boyd Rice Copy Share Image
In careless ignorance they think it civilization, when in reality it is a portion of their slavery...To ravage, to slaughter, to usurp… — Tacitus Copy Share Image
Every single one of us is a little civilization built on the ruins of any number of preceding civilizations, but with our… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization, though then, it is… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
What you people who weren't yet born can never know is what it meant to sleep in cities under silent falls of… — Timothy Findley Copy Share Image
Understanding- -like civilization, happiness, music, science and a host of other great endeavors--is not a state of being, but a manner of… — Alan Kay Copy Share Image
The Christian god can easily be pictured as virtually the same god as the many ancient gods of past civilizations. The Christian… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The sentiments attributed to Christ are in the Old Testament. They were familiar in the Jewish schools and to all the Pharisees,… — Joseph McCabe Copy Share Image
A survival tale peels away the niceties and comforts of civilization. Suddenly, all the technology and education in the world means nothing.… — Nathaniel Philbrick Copy Share Image
I think that any authentic feeling one has of life should be a feeling of defeat. It's a losing game. You're going… — Etgar Keret Copy Share Image
I have been reading the morning paper. I do it every morning-knowing well that I shall find in it the usual depravities… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
On Painting Rats, and the Glorification of Them. They exist without permission. They are hated, hunted and persecuted. They live in quiet… — Banksy Copy Share Image
“There are only three things that America will be remembered for 2000 years from now when they study this civilization: The Constitution,… — Gerald Early Copy Share Image
The first requisite of civilization, therefore, is that of justice — that is, the assurance that a law once made will not… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Rules governing defecation, hygiene, and pollution exist in every culture at every period in history. It may in fact be the foundation… — Rose George Copy Share Image
The man who sat on the ground in his tipi meditating on life and its meaning, accepting the kinship of all creatures… — Luther Standing Bear Copy Share Image
'Buncha Losers' comedy is one of those homegrown American art forms, up there with infomercials and Elvis-shaped soap carvings. No other civilization… — Rob Sheffield Copy Share Image
When one group rules another, the relationship between the two is political. When such an arrangement is carried out over a long… — Kate Millett Copy Share Image
While we honour religion and believe it to be a powerful factor in elevating our race, we discriminate, as we hope our… — Tennessee Celeste Claflin Copy Share Image
May it not also be that the cause of civilization itself will be defended by the skill and devotion of a few… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
By putting business before every other manifestation of life, our mechanical and financial civilization has forgotten the chief business of life: namely,… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
There was something horrifying in the realization that, in this twenty-first century of what we call 'civilization,' we have carved up what… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
That's what painting does; it organizes vision in a certain way or suggests that certain things be paid attention to and certain… — Jasper Johns Copy Share Image
“A civilization is built upon the edifice of genuine human minds, not the primitive and deluded minds of barbarian apes, who in… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Our understanding of Shakespeare already depends largely on the vitality of Renaissance elements in our education. Each man must live in his… — George Edward Woodberry Copy Share Image
The Anglo-Saxon hive have extirpated Paganism from the greater part of the North American continent; but with it they have likewise extirpated… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
I am prepared to maintain that Honesty is essentially an anarchistic and disintegrating force in society, that communities are held together and… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
The civilization of the twentieth century cannot be universal except by being a dynamic synthesis of all the cultural values of all… — Leopold Sedar Senghor Copy Share Image
It seemed so illogical to punish some poor criminal for doing something that civilization taught him how to do so he could… — Chester Himes Copy Share Image
The spirit of playful competition is, as a social impulse, older than culture itself and pervades all life like a veritable ferment.… — Johan Huizinga Copy Share Image
A great deal of stupidity has chipped away at the massive advantages of Western civilization, which could terminally decline if it remains… — Paul Singer Copy Share Image
Does history warrant the conclusion that religion is necessary to morality - that a natural ethic is too weak to withstand the… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
Civil movements and riots are as old as human civilization. Long before Twitter was created, mobilization of the discontented was mouth-to-mouth, or… — Eduardo Paes Copy Share Image
The History of every major Galactic Civilization tends to pass through three distinct and recognizable phases, those of Survival, Inquiry and Sophistication,… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Statistically it's a certainty there are hugely advanced civilizations, intelligences, life forms out there. I believe they're so advanced they're even doing… — Story Musgrave Copy Share Image
When this immediate evil power has been defeated, we shall not yet have won the long battle with the elemental barbarities. Another… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
