“Civilization is in fact the longest story of all. Civilization can persist through a series of economies.” — Fernand Braudel Copy Share Image
You have to know accounting. It's the language of practical business life. It was a very useful thing to deliver to civilization.… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
The habits of every animal are, at least in the eyes of man, constantly similar in all ages. But the habits, the… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
What do I consider a teacher should be? One who breathes life into knowledge so that it takes new form in progress… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
We are compelled to work more hours per day, receive less pay per hour, pay more for what we buy, and recieve… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
They have an amazing proliferation of TV channels now: The all-cartoon channel, the 24-hour-science fiction channel. Of course, to make room for… — Dennis Miller Copy Share Image
I have tried to answer the question which sent me to Samoa: Are the disturbances which vex our adolescents due to the… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
If man--if each one of us--abdicates his responsibilities with regard to values; if each one of us limits himself to leading a… — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
The poet Melvin B. Tolson once said, 'A civilization is judged only in its decline.' That made sense to me. I would… — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
The easily ridiculed, so-so status quo often hides Herculean efforts by those whom we take for granted, and who, working in the… — Victor Davis Hanson Copy Share Image
This planet came with a set of instructions, but we seem to have misplaced them. Civilization needs a new operating system. — Paul Hawken Copy Share Image
But you have to understand, my beard is so nasty. I mean, it's the only beard in the history of Western civilization… — Bill Walton Copy Share Image
I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
People often ask how I can reject the phrase 'woman writer' and not reject the phrase 'Jewish writer' - a preposterous question.… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
“Narrative, in short. is more than literature, it is the way we understand our lives. If literature merely supplied entertainment, then it… — Robert N. Bellah Copy Share Image
Ancient Egypt was a Negro Civilization. The history of Black Africa will remain suspended in air and cannot be written correctly until… — Cheikh Anta Diop Copy Share Image
Wherever man exists, he finds the need to redesign, to recreate the world. A more beautiful world, purer, sweeter smelling and more… — Gary Snyder Copy Share Image
Ancient and oriental civilizations were more sensitive than we are to the cycles of things; to the succession of generations, both divine… — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
It has been well said that tea is suggestive of a thousand wants, from which spring the decencies and luxuries of civilization. — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
Nor do I take into account a danger of starting a chain reaction of a scope great enough to destroy part or… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“Where two or more are gathered in the name of Man; that is civilization; that is Order; and that is the beginnings… — Christopher Dutton Copy Share Image
Civilization will reach maturity only when it learns to value diversity of character and of ideas. — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
The legislator is an indispensable guardian of our freedom. It is true that great executives have played a powerful role in the… — J. William Fulbright Copy Share Image
I hate paying taxes. But I love the civilization they give me — Oliver Wendell Holmes Copy Share Image
What does civilization mean to you, and what would its ending bring to the world? — Serj Tankian Copy Share Image
The fact is, that civilization requires slaves. Human slavery is wrong, insecure, and demoralizing. On mechanical slavery, on the slavery of the… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I am sure no other civilization, not even the Romans, has showed such a vast proportion of ignominious and degraded nudity, and… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
I don't actually believe in a clash of civilizations. I believe in a clash of the civilized and the noncivilized. — Madeleine Albright Copy Share Image
IF we desire European civilization to be a raid and a rescue, we shall insist rather that souls are in real peril… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As long as art is the beauty parlor of civilization, neither art nor civilization is secure. — John Dewey Copy Share Image
We are not learning to view ourselves as an advanced, evolving civilization. That is what we really must learn to do, in… — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image
To travel is to discover that everybody is wrong. The philosophies, the civilizations which seem, at a distance, so superior to those… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Primitiveness and civilization are degrees of the same thing. If civilization has an opposite, it is war. — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
When tillage begins, other arts follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of human civilization. — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
Anglo-Saxon civilization has taught the individual to protect his own rights; American civilization will teach him to respect the rights of others. — William Jennings Bryan Copy Share Image
A savage is simply a human organism that has not received enough news from the human race. — John Ciardi Copy Share Image
Civilization never stands still; if in one country it is falling back, in another it is changing, evolving, becoming more complicated, bringing… — Arthur Keith 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
