If we were to place our power at the service of our imaginations rather than our primate politics we would create a… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
New York... when civilization falls apart, remember, we were way ahead of you. — David Letterman 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
Our fantastic civilization has fallen out of touch with many aspects of nature, and with none more completely than with night. — Henry Beston Copy Share Image
It was in the 1960s that the left convinced itself that there is something fascistic about patriotism and something perversely "patriotic" about… — Jonah Goldberg Copy Share Image
The Imaginative Child will become the imaginative man or woman most apt to create, to invent, and therefore to foster civilization — L. Frank Baum Copy Share Image
Hunger eats civilization. The West is not hungry; that's why they can say they're so civilized. Civilization is the biggest bluff! — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
To reverse the effects of civilization would destroy the dreams of a lot of people. There's no way around it. We can… — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
As a thinker and planner the ant is the equal of any savage race of men; as a self-educated specialist in several… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The market came with the dawn of civilization and it is not an invention of capitalism. ... If it leads to improving… — Mikhail Gorbachev 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 heart pulsating in harmony with the circulation of sap and the flow of rivers? A body with the rhythms of the… — Dag Hammarskjöld Copy Share Image
Freedom is neither a legal invention nor a philosophical conquest, the cherished possession of civilizations more valid than others because they alone… — Claude Levi-Strauss Copy Share Image
Marriage is the beginning and pinnacle of civilization. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
each generation devises better ways to survive. Civilization may, in one sense, be a tribute to the ingeniousness of some children in… — Lucy Freeman Copy Share Image
You can't say civilization don't advance... in every war they kill you in a new way. — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
The cash register did more for human morality than the Congregational Church. It was a really powerful phenomenon to make an economic… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
Woman's success in lifting men out of their way of life nearly resembling that of the beasts who merely hunted and fished… — Mary Ritter Beard Copy Share Image
It's only been in the past two generations that we truly understood the impact our civilization has had on the natural world.… — Annalee Newitz Copy Share Image
There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations, cultures, arts, civilizations - these are mortal, and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Story was that human civilization started to develop with first social network. Emerged where population concentration was high. Helped propel to where… — Yuri Milner Copy Share Image
Newspapers are unable, seemingly to discriminate between a bicycle accident and the collapse of civilization — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Human civilization is not something achieved against nature; it is rather the outcome of the working of the innate qualities of man. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Take off all your clothes and walk down the street waving a machete and firing an Uzi, and terrified citizens will phone… — Mike Nichols Copy Share Image
Civilization grew in the beginning from the minute that we had communication - particularly communication by sea that enabled people to get… — Thor Heyerdahl Copy Share Image
Without civilization, we would not turn into animals, but vegetables. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
It is possible to point to hundreds, thousands, perhaps even millions of imaginative, courageous programs to reduce, recycle, and reuse - yet… — Richard Heinberg Copy Share Image
The civilization, so often vaunted by the learned exponents of arts and sciences, will, if allowed to overleap the bounds of moderation,… — Bahá'u'lláh Copy Share Image
The instrument of expansion of Classical civilization was a social organization, slavery. — Carroll Quigley Copy Share Image
This the American black man knows: his fight here is a fight to the finish. Either he dies or wins. If he… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
If we are to preserve civilization, we must first remain civilized. — Louis St. Laurent Copy Share Image
The story of civilization is, in a sense, the story of engineering-that long and arduous struggle to make the forces of nature… — L. Sprague de Camp Copy Share Image
Our civilization is locked in the grip of an ideology - corporatism. An ideology that denies and undermines the legitimacy of individuals… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
It is not for nothing, either, that the umbrella has become the very foremost badge of modern civilization--the Urim and Thummim of… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
If you will notice, there is seldom a telegram in a paper which fails to show up one or more members &… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
It must first be reiterated that with extraordinary few exceptions no educated person in the history of Western Civilization from the third… — Jeffrey Burton Russell Copy Share Image
