I do see that the world that we live in is collapsing to a certain extent, and civilization as we know it… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
I see the liberty of the individual not only as a great moral good in itself (or, with Lord Acton, as the… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
It is a fearful thing to lead this great peaceful people into war, into the most terrible and disastrous of all wars,… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
“Atlantis was one name for an ancient civilization that went through a terrible catastrophe and that we now have the opportunity to… — David Wilcock Copy Share Image
Dance music ... stirs some barbaric instinct - lulled asleep in our sober lives - you forget centuries of civilization in a… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Our understanding of what constitutes intelligence is utterly relative. If an aborigine drafted an I.Q. test, for example, all of Western civilization… — John Robbins Copy Share Image
We were postwar middle-class white kids living in the slipstream of the greatest per-capita rise in income in the history of Western… — John Lahr Copy Share Image
The war of ideas is a Greek invention. It is one of the most important inventions ever made. Indeed, the possibility of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The more civilized a nation, the more conformed its population, until that civilization's last age arrives, when multiplicity wages war with conformity.… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
It was the transmutation of the classical liberal intellectual foundation by Christianity that gave modern Europe its impetus and that pushed European… — Charles A. Murray Copy Share Image
“Without wonder, there’s no progress. Nothing gets done, nobody goes anywhere. If you don’t exercise your capacity for wonder…well, use it or… — Brian Hodge Copy Share Image
Legalized abortion is a national holocaust; an affront to our national character; a contradiction of established principles subscribed to from the beginning… — Chuck Baldwin Copy Share Image
We talk about civilization as though it's a static state. There are no civilized people yet, it's a process that's constantly going… — Jacque Fresco Copy Share Image
Each little thing that we do passes into the great machine of life which may grind our virtues to powder and make… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I have no misgivings about, or lack of confidence in the cause in which I am engaged, and my courage does not… — Sullivan Ballou Copy Share Image
And do you know what a full-fledged war would look like, Percy?" "Bad?" I guessed. "Imagine the world in chaos. Nature at… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
The real amateur of wine can only enjoy it along with friends, sharing with them the art of conversation and the art… — Jean Drapeau Copy Share Image
There were incredibly complex societies already existing in North America long before Europeans arrived. So many people think that before European contact… — Joseph Boyden Copy Share Image
Several days in a row we sighted groups of metallic, saucer-shaped vehicles at great altitudes over the base Germany, 1951 and we… — Gordon Cooper Copy Share Image
“I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two-thirds of the… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
A race preserves its vigor so long as it harbors a real contrast between what has been and what may be; and… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Every new stroke of civilization has cost the lives of countless brave men, who have fallen defeated by the dragon, in their… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
We all have a little weakness, which is very natural but rather misleading, for supposing that this epoch must be the end… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Wrecking civilization one story at a time." "That hardest day in any cancer patient's life is the day after he's cured." "Some… — T. Fox Dunham Copy Share Image
Democracy rests upon two pillars: one, the principle that all men are equally entitled to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness;… — Louis D. Brandeis Copy Share Image
nothing like a few restful weeks contemplating the decline of civilization to restore the humors. What I did on my summer vacation… — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
Thus we behold Kentucky, lately an howling wilderness, the habitation of savages and wild beasts, become a fruitful field; this region, so… — Daniel Boone Copy Share Image
We are like ignorant shepherds living on a site where great civilizations once flourished. The shepherds play with the fragments that pop… — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
“Instead of adapting, their leaders clung to power and strove instead to be the last ones to starve to death. The Mayan… — Daniel Suarez Copy Share Image
It is well for civilization that human beings constantly strive to gain greater and greater rewards, for it is this urge, this… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
No doubt Western civilization has in the past been full of wars and revolutions, and the national elements in our culture, even… — Christopher Dawson Copy Share Image
Even in a savage tribe, the achievements of adults are far beyond what the immature members would be capable of if left… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Wine has been with us since the beginning of civilization. It is the temperate, civilized, sacred, romantic mealtime beverage recommended in the… — Robert Mondavi Copy Share Image
The attraction of horror is a mental, or even an intellectual, excitement, but the fascination of the repulsive, so noticeable incontemporary writing,… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
Freedom of expression is the well-spring of our civilization... The history of civilization is in considerable measure the displacement of error which… — Felix Frankfurter Copy Share Image
Were I asked to define it, I should reply that archeology is that science which enables us to register and classify our… — Amelia B. Edwards Copy Share Image
Resort to science has rendered modern war so destructive of life and property that it presents a new problem to mankind, such,… — John Hessin Clarke Copy Share Image
I was shaped by the west and have lived most of my life in it, and nothing would gratify me more than… — Wallace Stegner 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
I ascribe a basic importance to the phenomenon of language. To speak means to be in a position to use a certain… — Frantz Fanon Copy Share Image
