I thought society would do the right thing. Now I look around and I think -- society never does the right thing.… — Christina Dodd Copy Share Image
They wanted to preserve and protect the mystical knowledge gained from their meditation practices and pass it on to future civilizations they… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
It seemed to me,' said Wonko the Sane, 'that any civilization that had so far lost its head as to need to… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Civilization can only revive when there shall come into being in a number of individuals a new tone of mind, independent of… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
I am not a Catholic; but I consider the Christian idea, which has its roots in Greek thought and in the course… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
Don't get me wrong, God Bless the farmers and cowboys. It just wasn't the life I wanted. When writing stories of other… — Tom Johnson Copy Share Image
In the desert I had found a freedom unattainable in civilization; a life unhampered by possessions, since everything that was not a… — Wilfred Thesiger Copy Share Image
It is against their own insoluble problem of being human that the dull and base in humanity are in revolt in anti-Semitism.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Why do these civilizations all seem to follow the same identifiable sequence—from bondage to spiritual faith, from spiritual faith to courage, from… — Andy Andrews Copy Share Image
Our world is in profound danger. Mankind must establish a set of positive values with which to secure its own survival. This… — Richard Matheson Copy Share Image
You have to know accounting. It's the language of practical business life. It was a very useful thing to deliver to civilization.… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. Without books, the development of civilization would… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
This is why moral uneasiness is destined to become even more acute. It is obvious that a fundamental defect, or rather a… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
Art is life seen through man's inner craving for perfection and beauty-- his escape from the sordid realities of life into a… — Paul Outerbridge Copy Share Image
Men come and go, cities rise and fall, whole civilizations appear and disappear-the earth remains, slightly modified. The earth remains, and the… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
We tried some experiments in mind reading which were not very successful. Think mind reading contrary to common sense, wise provision of… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
“(Catholic) monks taught metallurgy, introduced new crops, copied ancient texts, preserved literacy, pioneered in technology, invented champagne, improved the European landscape, provided… — Thomas E. Woods Jr Copy Share Image
In all of Western civilization, there have been societies that celebrating the homosexuality, the ancient Greeks. But they, in fact, protected the… — Ken Blackwell Copy Share Image
Let us hope that the advent of a successful flying machine, now only dimly foreseen and nevertheless thought to be possible, will… — Octave Chanute Copy Share Image
“What a peculiar civilisation this was: inordinately rich, yet inclined to accrue its wealth through the sale of some astonishingly small and… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
We must not stay as we are, doing always what was done last time, or we shall stick in the mud. Yet… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
No civilization would ever have been possible without a framework of stability, to provide the wherein for the flux of change. Foremost… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
“They will wake up one morning and realize their civilization has been pulled out from under them, inch by inch, dollar by… — G. Willow Wilson Copy Share Image
Standing, as I believe the United States stands for humanity and civilization, we should exercise every influence of our great country to… — Henry Cabot Lodge Copy Share Image
The present dominant values (xenophilia, cosmopolitanism, narcissistic individualism, humanitarianism, bourgeois economism, hedonism, homophilia, permissivenes, etc.) are actually anti-values - values of devirilising… — Guillaume Faye Copy Share Image
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There is no life without guilt anyway, at least in the Western world. I think in other civilizations it might be different… — Pascal Bruckner Copy Share Image
The world runs on individuals pursuing their self interests. The great achievements of civilization have not come from government bureaus. Einstein didn't… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
We may anticipate a state of affairs in which two Great Powers will each be in a position to put an end… — J. Robert Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
I saw in States' rights the only availing check upon the absolutism of the sovereign will, and secession filled me with hope,… — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
The United States is just now the oldest country in the world, there always is an oldest country and she is it,… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
Avatar is the most high tech film in terms of its execution, dealing with essentially a very low tech subject; which is… — James Cameron Copy Share Image
Islam brings hope and comfort to millions of people in my country, and to more than a billion people worldwide. Ramadan is… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
Volumptuous women look good. Ignorant messages from mass media tell women what size to be, but female qualities-a softness, a soothing capacity… — Stanley Crouch Copy Share Image
We should emphasize not Negro History, but the Negro in history. What we need is not a history of selected races or… — Carter G. Woodson Copy Share Image
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In Western Civilization - America and Britain - if you see people talking and it becomes an argument and voices are raised,… — John Gimlette Copy Share Image
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The final test of religious faith... is whether it will enable men to endure insecurity without complacency or despair, whether it can… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
[Albert] Hoxie, my Western Civilization professor. I had him in my freshman year and he opened up an extraordinary world to me… — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Copy Share Image
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