“The exaltation of human reason and its capabilities, a commitment to rigorous and rational debate, a promotion of intellectual inquiry and scholarly… — Thomas E. Woods Jr Copy Share Image
Water, like religion and ideology, has the power to move millions of people. Since the very birth of human civilization, people have… — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
The poet's, commonly, is not a logger's path, but a woodman's. The logger and pioneer have preceded him, like John the Baptist;… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The further our civilization advances upon its present lines so much the cheaper sort of thing does "fame" become, especially of the… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
It's only Western civilization that, God forbid, you talk about dying, when it's the only thing we know for certain, right? Everyone's… — Abel Ferrara 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
I am well acquainted with all the arguments against freedom of thought and speech - the arguments which claim that it cannot… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
A civilization without insanity, without criminals and without war, where the able can prosper and honest beings can have rights, and where… — L. Ron Hubbard Copy Share Image
We have now in our possession three instruments of civilization, unknown to antiquity. These are the art of printing; free representative government;… — Edward Everett 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
There is held to be no surer test of civilization than the increase per head of the consumption of alcohol and tobacco.… — Havelock Ellis Copy Share Image
Planetary democracy does not yet exist but our global civilization is already preparing a place for it. It is the very Earth… — Vaclav Havel 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
I think that a lot of people are in love with stress. It's the dirty little secret of Western civilization. People often… — Jerry Stahl Copy Share Image
I've been waiting over 40 years to come to Cyprus, and it has not disappointed - the birthplace of Aphrodite, the Crossroads… — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
Doubt is the disease of this inquisitive, restless age. It is the price we pay for our advanced intelligence and civilization-the him… — Ross Turnbull Copy Share Image
The roots of India's soft power run deep. India's is a civilization that, over millennia, has offered refuge and, more importantly, religious… — Shashi Tharoor Copy Share Image
The contract between the author and the reader is a game. And the game . . . is one of the greatest… — Carlos Fuentes Copy Share Image
We the human species, are confronting a planetary emergency-a threat to the survival of our civilization that is gathering ominous and destructive… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
The aim of education is to guide young persons in the process through which they shape themselves as human persons-armed with knowledge,… — Jacques Maritain Copy Share Image
Nearly half of the American population is eagerly anticipating the end of the world. This dewy-eyed nihilism provides absolutely no incentive to… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
Iran is a country of 80 million people, educated and dynamic. It sits astride a crucial part of the world. It cannot… — Fareed Zakaria Copy Share Image
The institution of marriage in all societies is a pattern within which the strains put by civilization on males and females alike… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
“[They] may have for instance taken the view of Edmund Burke, who in the 18th century made the central conservative insight; that… — Douglas Murray Copy Share Image
“Civilization, her mother had told her since she was small, was a series of agreements about what was good for everyone, enforced… — Maile Meloy Copy Share Image
No administration could stop the tidal wave of immigration that swept over the land; no political party could restrain or control the… — Nelson A. Miles Copy Share Image
Thus lynch law held sway in the far West until civilization spread into the Territories and the orderly processes of law took… — Ida B. Wells Copy Share Image
And so, inevitably, one returns to the centre of Western culture, Greece, and we have never, in any sense, lost our ties… — Stephen Gardiner Copy Share Image
When a man loves a woman, he has to become worthy of her. The higher her virtue, the more noble her character,… — Fulton J. Sheen 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
That is the key to history. Terrific energy is expended - civilizations are built up - excellent institutions devised; but each time… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Each of us in our own way can try to spread compassion into peoples hearts. Western civilizations these days place great importance… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Opportunity can't reward you with its many gifts if you fail to recognize it and act on it. What most people don't… — Ernie J Zelinski Copy Share Image
“In February 1912, ancient China came to an end when the last of three millennia of Chinese emperors abdicated. Imagine twentieth-century Italy… — Mark Kurlansky Copy Share Image
I think [contacting an alien civilization] would be a disaster. The extraterrestrials would probably be far in advance of us. The history… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
I myself saw the great works of Western civilization for the first time in my high school in Lithuania in bad black-and-white… — Jonas Mekas Copy Share Image
“When men learnt to talk in the beginning of the civilised word they used language not as a means of communication alone… — Charlotte Lamb Copy Share Image
A happy people I call them still, whose peace and genuine morals have not been contaminated with European vices; and whose errorsare… — John Gabriel Stedman Copy Share Image
There have been summits of civilization at which heretics like Socrates , who was killed because he was wiser than his neighbors,… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Whenever we touch nature we get clean. People who have got dirty through too much civilization take a walk in the woods,… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
![“[They] may have for instance taken the view of Edmund Burke, who in the 18th century made the central conservative insight; that a culture and a society are not things run for the convenience of the people who happen to be here right now, but is a deep pact between the dead, the living, and those…” quote by Douglas Murray](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/55e/douglas-murray-12950_civilization_they-may-have-for-instance-taken-the-vie_1240371.jpg)
![“I think [contacting an alien civilization] would be a disaster. The extraterrestrials would probably be far in advance of us. The history of advanced races meeting more primitive people on this planet is not very happy, and they were the same species. I think we should keep our heads low.” quote by Stephen Hawking](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/585/stephen-hawking-389_aliens_i-think-contacting-an-alien-civilization_1727877.jpg)
