It is my belief that we need a new transnational sustaining 'myth' that can impart value and respect. It is my further… — Stuart Kauffman Copy Share Image
Of course the self-serving bias is something you want to get out of yourself. Thinking that what's good for you is good… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
For me, 'Moby-Dick' is more than the greatest American novel ever written; it is a metaphysical survival manual - the best guidebook… — Nathaniel Philbrick Copy Share Image
At last, in the gray dawn of Civilization the fire in the Soul dies down. The dwindling powers rise to one more,… — Oswald Spengler Copy Share Image
Art is humanity's most essential, most universal language. It is not a frill, but a necessary part of communication. The quality of… — Ernest L. Boyer Copy Share Image
Americans' great and secret fear is that America may turn out to be a phenomenon rather than a civilization. — Shirley Hazzard Copy Share Image
I see little more important to the future of our country and our civilization than the full recognition of the place of… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
My body really, really wanted to reproduce when I was 15. It took a lot of civilization, socialization, willpower and some emulsion… — Penn Jillette Copy Share Image
If youth were not ignorant and timid, civilization would be impossible. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Any assassination is an assassination. It's cold, it's terrible. I'm against any capital punishment. Only the Lord has the right to take… — Shimon Peres Copy Share Image
We know next to nothing about virtually everything. It is not necessary to know the origin of the universe; it is necessary… — George Will Copy Share Image
The idea of a group of elders is that, in past civilizations, they have linked worlds; the other world was also present… — Jacques Yves Cousteau Copy Share Image
It now appears that the negro race is, more than any other, susceptible of rapid civilization. The emancipation is observed, in the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Isn't the only hope for the planet that the industrialized civilizations collapse? Isn't it our responsibility to bring this about? — Maurice Strong Copy Share Image
A decadent civilization compromises with its disease, cherishes the virus infecting it, loses its self-respect. — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
“What I tell you three times is true. What I tell you three million times is civilization.” — Mark Pesce Copy Share Image
Everything around a writer, or musician in the record business, probably everything in all the United States or in all of western… — T Bone Burnett Copy Share Image
The light of Christ illuminates the laboratory, his speech is the fount of communication, he makes possible the study of humans in… — Mark Noll Copy Share Image
The dog that buried the bone which even a canine appetite could not manage, the squirrel that gathered nuts for a later… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
It is a very great mistake, and a very common one, even for well-read persons, to adopt the idea that the progress… — Samuel Freeman Miller Copy Share Image
Co-operation, like other difficult things, can be learned only by practice: and to be capable of it in great things, a people… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
No one sex can govern alone. I believe that one of the reasons why civilization has failed so lamentably is that is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“It is a science fact that some animals do dream. It'll someday lead them to places better than zoo.” — Toba Beta Copy Share Image
Security, the chief pretense of civilization, cannot exist where the worst of dangers, the danger of poverty, hangs over everyone's head. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
