Without books the development of civilization would have been impossible. They are the engines of change, windows on the world, "Lighthouses" as… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
How sad that men would base an entire civilization on the principle of paternity, upon the legal owership and presumed responsibility for… — Phyllis Chesler Copy Share Image
While I have no empirical evidence to back this up, I bet that the number of homosexual people per thousand has not… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
A good civilisation spreads over us freely like a tree, varying and yielding because it is alive. A bad civilisation stands up… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
If you will protest courageously, and yet with dignity and Christian love, when the history books are written in future generations, the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
America became a great civilization thanks to a culture based on the value of having to earn almost everything an American got… — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
Another success is the post-office, with its educating energy augmented by cheapness and guarded by a certain religious sentimentin mankind; so that… — Ralph Waldo Emerson 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
“Under the rough and ridiculous circumstances of life in the Rocky Mountains there was something exciting and vital, full of rude poetry:… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
“It oughtn't to need a war to make us talk to each other in buses, and invent our own amusements in the… — Jan Struther Copy Share Image
Economics must not be relegated to classrooms and statistical offices and must not be left to esoteric circles. It is the philosophy… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. They… — Barbara W Tuchman Copy Share Image
At the root of the Noble Savage myth is this basic truth: the savage is good, but he's also violent. This is… — Bruno Dumont Copy Share Image
The man who stands upon his own soil, who feels, by the laws of the land in which he lives,-by the laws… — Edward Everett Copy Share Image
I didn't go to bookshops to buy. That's a little bourgeois. I went because they were civilized places. It made me happy… — Jerry Pinto Copy Share Image
We will never get great art from women if their education exposes them only to the second-rate and if the idea of… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
“Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for education. Probably, no nation is… — Abraham Flexner Copy Share Image
One way in which all of us can help to combat the current wave of public indecency which threatens to undermine Western… — Grace Kelly Copy Share Image
If we lose the virile, manly qualities, and sink into a nation of mere hucksters, putting gain over national honor, and subordinating… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Without security, civilization is cramped and dwarfed. Without security, there can be no freedom. Nor shall I say too much, when I… — Charles Sumner Copy Share Image
Our idea of what constitutes social good has advanced with the procession of the ages, from those desperate times when just to… — Frances Perkins Copy Share Image
One measure of a civilization, either of an age or of a single individual, is what that age or person really wishes… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
Marx was wrong. Religion is not the opiate of the people. Opium suggests something soporific, numbing, dulling. Too often religion has been… — Phillip Adams Copy Share Image
In the same way that banks succeeded at privatizing the profits and socializing the losses as they led the global economy to… — Felix Dodds Copy Share Image
“Civilization is a condition which unsocial misfits impose on the rest of popular, easygoing, family-oriented humanity. Only the miserable, the failures, the… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
We have to learn to deal with this situation and prepare for contact. Studying the behavior pattern of the phenomenon, I came… — Michael Hesemann Copy Share Image
Several years ago, when I was about to start a novel, I thought I might get some mileage out of the idea… — Octavia E. Butler Copy Share Image
Freedom of enterprise was from the beginning not altogether a blessing. As the liberty to work or to starve, it spelled toil,… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
What threatens civilization today is not war, but the changing conception of life values entailed by certain political doctrines. Only by recapturing… — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
But I just don't think it's an abyss of nothingness [after death] and that we fall off and that our journey stops.… — Halle Berry Copy Share Image
God requireth not a uniformity of religion to be enacted in any civil state; which enforced uniformity (sooner or later) is the… — Roger Williams Copy Share Image
We usually speak of the Jewish-Christian civilization - perhaps, the time has come, especially with regard to the Middle East conflict, to… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
The colored woman of to-day occupies, one may say, a unique position in this country. In a period of itself transitional and… — Anna Julia Cooper Copy Share Image
The Empathic Civilization is emerging. A younger generation is fast extending its empathic embrace beyond religious affiliations and national identification to include… — Jeremy Rifkin Copy Share Image
All of the philosophers I studied were white (with a few Eastern exceptions), and, for that matter, they were all male. Africa,… — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
I worry about younger generations who were born to view their country trampling on humanity of everyone that comes in its way,… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
It isn't very nice to admit, but domestic violence has its uses. So raw and unleashed, it tears away the veil of… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
I believe that we are at or near the apex of a great civilization... In 50-100 years, if we're a poor third… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
Here the artist is, as it were, an archaeologist, uncovering deeper and deeper strata as he works, recovering not an ancient civilization,… — Stephen Nachmanovitch Copy Share Image
Since the dawn of time, traditional marriage - the union between one man and one woman - has been the building block… — Jim DeMint Copy Share Image
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