I'm really hopeful about the future of space exploration and human spaceflight. Civilization as we know it has been defined by exploration.… — Alan G. Poindexter Copy Share Image
“The advent of civilization--an overly optimistic word--didn't change things as much as one might think, because no matter how large a city… — Gene Doucette Copy Share Image
Fear is the deep motive of abstract art - fear of a repellent civilization which is dominated by the power of things.… — Storm Jameson Copy Share Image
What does it mean for a civilisation to be a million years old? We have had radio telescopes and spaceships for a… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
No matter how exotic human civilization becomes, no matter the developments of life and society nor the complexity of the machine/human interface,… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
The reactionary percentage of the electorate in these United States has been relatively constant since McCarthy's day; I'd estimate it as hovering… — Rick Perlstein Copy Share Image
To keep any great nation up to a high standard of civilization there must be enough superior characters to hold the balance… — Christian D. Larson Copy Share Image
Zionism has gained my full sympathy and I appreciate it much higher than what is called nationalism in modern France. It is… — Tomas Garrigue Masaryk Copy Share Image
Few can contemplate without a sense of exhilaration the splendid achievements of practical energy and technical skill, which, from the latter part… — E. F. Schumacher Copy Share Image
Mark you, if you give up spirituality, leaving it aside to go after the materializing civilization of the West, the result will… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Wise cultivated, genial conversation is the last flower of civilization, and the best result which life has to offer us,--a cup for… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I am the son of two civilizations that at a certain age in history have formed a happy marriage. The first of… — Naguib Mahfouz Copy Share Image
The Mother's knowledge of unity, her powers of sensitivity, humility, and balance, and her infinite respect for the miracle of all life… — Andrew Harvey Copy Share Image
As the grandson of Italian immigrants, maybe I am biased, but I think Christopher Columbus, the man who is rightfully credited with… — Tom Tancredo Copy Share Image
In my mid-adolescence, my friend Terry Martin and I became obsessed with William F. Buckley. This makes more sense when you realize… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
America may not be the best nation on earth, but it has conceived loftier ideals and dreamed higher dreams than any other… — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
Our laws and our institutions must necessarily be based upon and embody the teachings of the Redeemer of mankind. It is impossible… — David Josiah Brewer Copy Share Image
Certainly whatever climate change and global warming means, we've got a big issue here. Right now, this civilization or this period that… — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image
There are spirits in Hawaii. They're very protective and very good and they watch over these islands. I must confess, they're not… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Wine is one of the most civilized things in the world and one of the most natural things of the world that… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“To make the distinction unmistakably clear: Civilization is the vital force in human history; culture is that inert mass of institutions and… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Writing keeps me at my desk, constantly trying to write a perfect sentence. It is a great privilege to make one’s living… — John Banville Copy Share Image
There is often no material difference between the enjoyment of the highest ranks and those of the rudest stages of society. If… — Sir Archibald Alison, 2nd Baronet Copy Share Image
More and more I come to value charity and love of one's fellow being above everything else...All our lauded technological progress-our very… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
For several centuries Western civilization has had a drive for material accumulation, continual extensions of economic power, termed 'progress'...The longing for growth… — Gary Snyder Copy Share Image
It is an awesome thing to comprehend the magnitude of the fact that what a human being dreams and imagines can be… — Vanna Bonta Copy Share Image
The world generally speaking is now drifting on a more and more devastating course towards the absurd target of extermination - or… — Alva Myrdal Copy Share Image
There are people accusing me that I'm sick, that I'm a danger to morals, western civilization and basically everything under the sun.… — Marilyn Manson Copy Share Image
Each man has an equal social right to multiply his power of motion by all the social factors of civilization. Private property… — Daniel De Leon Copy Share Image
We must seek support in the moral values that have ensured the progress of our civilization. Honesty and hard work, responsibility and… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
Whenever Nature's bounty is in danger of exhaustion, the chemist has sought for a substitute. The conquest of disease has made great… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
Liberty is so great a magician, endowed with so marvelous a power of productivity, that under the inspiration of this spirit alone,… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
We need a government, not politics. Because there's too much politics. Of course there should be debate. But there seems to be… — Daphne Guinness Copy Share Image
Someone once said that taxes are the price we pay for civilization. That may have been true when he said it, but… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
We strain to tell Americans and aliens in this country that there's nothing unique about America, nothing unique about American civilization, nothing… — Tom Tancredo Copy Share Image
Philosophers have actually devoted themselves, in the main, neither to perceiving the world, nor to spinning webs of conceptual theory, but to… — Josiah Royce Copy Share Image
We're headed for what is called Type 1 Civilization, planetary civilization. Type 2 would be stellar civilization, like Star Trek. Type 3… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
Unless modern civilization is a failure, it is entirely feasible and practicable for two races in such essential political, economic and religious… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
“The fiendlike skill we display in the invention of all manner of death-dealing engines, the vindictiveness with which we carry on our… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Clearly, mythology is no toy for children. Nor is it a matter of archaic, merely scholarly concern, of no moment to modern… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
