If we would reach a degree of civilization higher and grander than any yet attained, we should welcome to our ample continent… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
He would see civilization in danger of perishing under the oppression of a gigantic paradox: he would see multitudes of people starving… — Arthur Henderson Copy Share Image
Artificial intelligence will reach human levels by around 2029. Follow that out further to, say, 2045, we will have multiplied the intelligence,… — Ray Kurzweil Copy Share Image
I have to bring to your notice a terrifying reality: with the development of nuclear weapons Man has acquired, for the first… — Joseph Rotblat Copy Share Image
By 3000 B.C. the art of Egypt was so ripe and so far advanced that it is surprising to find any student… — James Henry Breasted Copy Share Image
“Our Western Civilization is in its death throes right now. We cannot stop the wheel from turning; ergo, we cannot save Western… — Richard Scutari Copy Share Image
Ants can live together in solidarity and forget themselves in the community. In a normative capitalist society, everyone is an egoist. In… — Bernard Werber Copy Share Image
... All questions concerning the rise of Christianity are one: How was it done? How did a tiny and obscure messianic movement… — Rodney Stark Copy Share Image
Civilization, stretching up to recognize that every child is a portion of State wealth, may presently make some movement to recognize maternity… — Miles Franklin Copy Share Image
In a living civilization there is always an element of unrest, for sensitiveness to ideas means curiosity, adventure, change. Civilized order survives… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
The universal regard for money is the one hopeful fact in our civilization. Money is the most important thing in the world.… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“Among peoples who possess a highly developed pugnacious instinct we find the greatest progress in the arts, sciences, social and political organization,… — Holly Estil Cunningham Copy Share Image
Geology is part of that remarkable dynamic process of the human mind which is generally called science and to which man is… — Reinout Willem van Bemmelen Copy Share Image
Within the memory of many of my townsmen the road near which my house stands resounded with the laugh and gossip of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
An unhurried mind brings the capacity to make wise choices every day - choices of how we use our time, of where… — Eknath Easwaran Copy Share Image
Civilization does not engross all the virtues of humanity: she has not even her full share of them. They flourish in greater… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“Isolationists believed that the ancient civilizations all developed independent of one another. Mesopotamia, the Indus Valley, China, Egypt—all crossed a threshold into… — Robert Doherty Copy Share Image
I realized that If I had to choose, I would rather have birds than airplanes. In wilderness I sense the miracle of… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
“We live in a uniform civilization, within well-defined cultural models: furnishings, decorative elements, blankets, record player have all been chosen among a… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
Slowly but certainly the proletarian, by every political reform which secures his well-being under new rules of insurance, of State control in… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
As I have said for many years throughout this land, we're borrowing money from China to buy oil from the Persian Gulf… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
Throughout the early Christian period, every great calamity - famine, earthquake, and plague - led to mass conversions, another indirect influence by… — Hans Zinsser Copy Share Image
Many of the greatest things man has achieved are not the result of consciously directed thought, and still less the product of… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
The transnational corporations and the money markets have declared the era of human-designed regulations over. Now the market must reign. Because few… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
It is the individual only who is timeless. Societies, cultures, and civilizations -- past and present -- are often incomprehensible to outsiders,… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
One of the most highly developed skills in contemporary Western civilization is dissection: the split -up of problems into their smallest possible… — Alvin Toffler Copy Share Image
It could be that these other civilizations, if they are far more advanced intellectually than we are, would not even measure our… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Because civilization isn't a thing that you build and then there it is, you have it forever. It needs to be built… — Steven Galloway Copy Share Image
Science fiction is the branch of literature that deals with the effects of change on people in the real world as it… — James Gunn Copy Share Image
Human civilization has been changing the Earths environment for millennia, often to our detriment. Dams, deforestation and urbanization can alter water cycles… — Jamais Cascio Copy Share Image
Nothing living should ever be treated with contempt. Whatever it is that lives, a man, a tree, or a bird, should be… — Elizabeth Goudge Copy Share Image
I should like to say that I am as proud of my Chinese heritage and background as I am devoted to modern… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I was watching a collection of vintage '80s cereal commercials when I paused to wonder why cereal manufacturers no longer included toy… — Ernest Cline Copy Share Image
Real Freedom is to not feel limited when wearing this Zen robe, this troublesome formal robe. Similarly, in our busy life we… — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share Image
No matter how much restriction civilization imposes on the individual, he nevertheless finds some way to circumvent it. Wit is the best… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
“A civilization, when the moment has come for crowds to acquire a high hand over it, is at the mercy of too… — Gustave Le Bon Copy Share Image
To rescue from oblivion even a fragment of a language which men have used and which is in danger of being lost… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
In the South, prior to the Civil Rights movement and the 1964 Civil Rights Act, democracy was the rule. The majority of… — Neal Boortz Copy Share Image
There are indications because of new inventions, that 10, 15, or 20 nations will have a nuclear capacity, including Red China, by… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
We must ask whether our machine technology makes us proof against all those destructive forces which plagued Roman society and ultimately wrecked… — Robert Strausz-Hupe Copy Share Image
