“The constant tug between nature and civilization is what keeps on our toes. Though of course, that did rather beg the question… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
Civilizations should be measured by the degree of diversity attained and the degree of unity retained. — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
God did not create man in his own image. Evidently, it was quite the other way about, which is the painless explanation… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I believe with all my heart that civilization has produced nothing finer than a man or woman who thinks and practices true… — Frank Knox Copy Share Image
“Let the war turn off the families. Our civilization is flinging itself to pieces. Stand back from the centrifuge.” — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Malibu: With sounds of waves crashing, and the ocean at the doorstep, you feel like you are hours away from civilization. And… — Jennifer Harrison Copy Share Image
Illusions mistaken for truth are the pavement under our feet. They are what we call civilization. — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Teachers are more than any other group the guardians of civilization. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
In the twenty-first century, the robot will take the place which slave labor occupied in ancient civilization. — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
Theory of the true civilization. It is not to be found in gas or steam or table turning. It consists in the… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization, though then, it is… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Man... is an inextricable tangle of culture and biology. And not being simple, he is not simply good; he has... a kind… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Extremes produce reaction. Beware that our boasted civilization does not lapse into barbarism. — Antoine Rivarol Copy Share Image
The world had already changed before September 11. The world has been going through a process of change over the last 20… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
Civilized society is one huge bourgeoisie: no nobleman dares now shock his greengrocer. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Here among the constant ruins and rebuilding of civilizations lies the coexistence of diversity and intolerance. — David K. Shipler Copy Share Image
Which is superior, the Constitution or Sharia law? In Sharia law by their teachings is superior to everything else, it replaces everything… — Steve King Copy Share Image
Civilization owes to the Islamic world some of its most important tools and achievements...the Muslim genius has added much to the culture… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
It is still an act of academic heresy to regard Egypt as the cradle of civilization and originator of Jewish and Christian… — Michael Tsarion Copy Share Image
nothing like a few restful weeks contemplating the decline of civilization to restore the humors. What I did on my summer vacation… — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
A modern and humane civilization must control conception or sink into barbaric cruelty to individuals. — Marie Stopes Copy Share Image
I pray God that we shall never use our physical prowess to oppress the human race, but we will use our strength,… — Marcus Garvey Copy Share Image
Does the thoughtful man suppose that...the present experiment in civilization is the last world we will see? — George Santayana Copy Share Image
“In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for… — Lee Iacocca Copy Share Image
