One... gets an impression that civilization is something which was imposed on a resisting majority by a minority which understood how to… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
We are constantly trying to cope with what our fathers or our grandfathers did. I wrote the book 'Great War of Civilization,'… — Robert Fisk Copy Share Image
We must remember that any oppression, any injustice, any hatred, is a wedge designed to attack our civilization. — Franklin D. Roosevelt 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
Change no man’s religion, change no man’s politics, interrupt the sovereignty of no nation. Instead, teach Man to use what he has… — L. Ron Hubbard Copy Share Image
I do not think that the nerve of the modern child is any too good; how can one expect it, brought up… — Muriel Wace Copy Share Image
The skylines lit up at dead of night, the air-conditioning systems cooling empty hotels in the desert and artificial light in the… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
“Greed is a contagious mental illness without which civilization as we know it would not have been possible.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
This is a time when it is frightening to be alive, when it is hard to think of human beings as rational… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
Culture is the tacit agreement to let the means of subsistence disappear behind the purpose of existence. Civilization is the subordination of… — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
Scientology is the science of knowing how to know answers. It is a wisdom in the tradition of ten thousand years of… — L. Ron Hubbard Copy Share Image
Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
The method of doubt must be applied to civilization; we must doubt its necessity, its excellence, and its permanence. — Charles Fourier Copy Share Image
Long before the advent of what scientists and scholars consider to be the beginning of human civilization, there was an age undreamed… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The walking delegates of a higher civilization, who have nothing to divide, look upon the notion of property as a purely artificial… — Thomas Bailey Aldrich Copy Share Image
We might as well expect to grow trees from leaves as hope to build up a civilization or a manhood without taking… — Anna Julia Cooper Copy Share Image
Do not confuse objectives with methods. When the nation becomes substantially united in favor of planning the broad objectives of civilization, then… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Every civilization finds it necessary to negotiate compromises with its own values. — Golda Meir Copy Share Image
It could be that at some earlier time, somewhere in the universe, a civilization evolved by probably some kind of Darwinian means… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
For 500 years the West patented six killer applications that set it apart. The first to download them was Japan. Over the… — Niall Ferguson Copy Share Image
The personal life of every individual is based on secrecy, and perhaps it is partly for that reason that civilized man is… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
In a civilization like ours, I feel that everyone has to come to terms with the claims of Jesus Christ upon his… — C. S. Lewis 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
AIDS is a global problem and there should be a global solution found by the entire international community. It is really scary… — Sarah Polley Copy Share Image
Civilization does not have to perish. The brutes are winning only by default. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Civilizations have come and gone and, in spite of our vaunted progress, I am tempted to ask again and again, 'To what… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
In basic terms, civilization is dependent upon the spontaneity and fulfillment of the individual. Your civilization is in sad straits. Not because… — Seth Copy Share Image
Baroque civilization believed in two truths, which for a post-18th-century mindset are exclusive truths - we have to eliminate one to believe… — Eugene Green Copy Share Image
Very few Black people ever embraced back to Africa movements, and very few actually, a tiny number actually went back to Africa.… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
Here we are at the edge of the world, the very edge of Western civilization, and all of us are so desperate… — M.I.A Copy Share Image
As you know we are facing the end of the Western Civilization by having a market based strategy, we are bringing Western… — Kathleen Sebelius Copy Share Image
“Let us suppose we are confronted with a desperate thing – say Pimlico. If we think what is really best for Pimlico… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Of all the world's civilizations, America was the one that most needed losers.” — STEPHANE AUDEGUY Copy Share Image
The only very marked difference between the average civilized man and the average savage is that the one is gilded and the… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Civilizations fall because the people inside the Sanctuary throw open the gates. — Bill Whittle Copy Share Image
In the name of a greater civilization, we curse those who for the sake of their ambitious dreams, brought about the massacre… — Amadeo Bordiga Copy Share Image
In the past, humans hesitated when they took lives, even non-human lives. But society had changed, and they no longer felt that… — Hayao Miyazaki Copy Share Image
Civilization’s shortening attention span is mismatched with the pace of environmental problems. — Stewart Brand Copy Share Image
