Any government that chooses to be an ally of terror has also chosen to be an enemy of civilization. — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
The city an epitome of the social world. All the belts of civilization intersect along its avenues. It contains the products of… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
“The cities make ferocious men because they may corrupt man. The mountain, the sea, the forest, make savage men; they development fierce… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Our civilization is first and foremost a civilization of means; in the reality of modern life, the means, it would seem, are… — Jacques Ellul 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
But however secure and well-regulated civilized life may become, bacteria, Protozoa, viruses, infected fleas, lice, ticks, mosquitoes, and bedbugs will always lurk… — Hans Zinsser Copy Share Image
Collecting facts is important. Knowledge is important. But if you don't have an imagination to use the knowledge, civilization is nowhere. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
In the west, Apollo and Dionysus strive for victory. Apollo makes the boundary lines that are civilization but that lead to convention,… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
“Caius was one of those who gloried in his ignorance, called his lack of letters purity, scorned any subtlety of thought or… — Iain Pears Copy Share Image
It's a weird curse, when you think about it. We're built for thought, and civilization, more than any other creature we've found.… — Josh Bazell Copy Share Image
'Business,' properly understood, is so central to every aspect of our civilization that Republicans should proudly announce that they are indeed 'the… — Jacob K. Javits Copy Share Image
What men call civilization is the condition of present customs; what they call barbarism, the condition of past ones. — Anatole France Copy Share Image
“The collective consciousness of mankind defines the existence and sustainability of this civilization.” — Toba Beta Copy Share Image
Technique has taken over the whole of civilization. Death, procreation, birth all submit to technical efficiency and systemization. — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
Force plays a much larger part in the government of the world than it did before 1914, and what is especially alarming,… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Those who admire modern civilization usually identify it with the steam engine and the electric telegraph. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
When it turned on the Jew, Christianity and European civilization turned on the incarnation - albeit an incarnation often wayward and unaware… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
And what we're looking toward is a moment when the artificial language structures which bind us within the notion of ourselves are… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
I want to get away from it all. Move to the sticks. Montana. Hundreds of miles from civilization. Get a cabin in… — David Spade Copy Share Image
We do not see faith, hope, and charity as unattainable ideals, but we use them as stout supports of a nation fighting… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
A slight daily unconscious luxury is hardly ever wanting to the dwellers in civilization; like the gentle air of a genial climate,… — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
Western civilization has not yet learned the lesson that the energy we expend in 'getting things done' is less important than the… — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
From the beginning, this culture - civilization - has been a culture of occupation. — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
