Many do not understand how precarious Western civilization is and what a joy it is. From it, we get real democracy. From… — John Rhys-Davies Copy Share Image
There is one common condition for the lot of women in Western civilization and all other civilizations that we know about for… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
Of the gladdest moments in human life, methinks, is the departure upon a distant journey into unknown lands. Shaking off with one… — Richard Francis Burton Copy Share Image
The spirit of man is more important than mere physical strength, and the spiritual fiber of a nation than its wealth. The… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
Culture is the name for what people are interested in, their thoughts, their models, the books they read and the speeches they… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
Road racing imitates life, the way it would be without the corruptive influence of civilization. When you see an enemy lying on… — Tim Krabbe Copy Share Image
I should be able to express moral views on social issues - especially those that have been the underpinning of Western civilization… — Kirk Cameron Copy Share Image
I'm thinking about the end of civilization. We may not keep growing like we are now. There must be an end of… — Hiroshi Sugimoto Copy Share Image
[A]nother important difference between tourist and traveler is that the former accepts his own civilization without question; not so the traveler, who… — Paul Bowles Copy Share Image
The story of the decadence of the cathedral as a moral power, a spiritual energizer in civilization, is the sad but inevitable… — Jenkin Lloyd Jones Copy Share Image
The developing world can just do things that are extensive or horizontal, that basically copy. The developed world needs to do things… — Peter Thiel 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
One of the most pathetic aspects of human history is that every civilization expresses itself most pretentiously, compounds its partial and universal… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
The best defence [for a democracy, for the public good] is aggressiveness, the aggressiveness of the involved citizen. We need to reassert… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
The family is the engine that drives civilization. Throughout history, those cultures that have failed to found their rules and attitudes of… — Jeremiah Denton Copy Share Image
The central purpose of the Work that Reconnects is to help people uncover and experience their innate connections with each other and… — Joanna Macy Copy Share Image
Money is the most important subject intellectual persons can investigate and reflect upon. It is so important that our present civilization may… — Robert W. Hemphill Copy Share Image
I have tried to answer the question which sent me to Samoa: Are the disturbances which vex our adolescents due to the… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
I had faith in Israel before it was established, I have in it now. I believe it has a glorious future before… — Harry S Truman Copy Share Image
I think we fought Vietnam for the benefits of civilization, and certainly we fought it to oppose authority. To show our authority,… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Had the Hebrews not been disturbed in their progress a thousand and more years ago, they would have solved all the great… — Isaac Mayer Wise Copy Share Image
You may have practical ethics and that kind of thing, but there is no spirituality in any aspect of our Western civilization.… — David Kudler 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
Here is a fact: nothing in all civilization has been as productive as ludicrous ambition. Whatever its ills, nothing has created more.… — Tom Rachman Copy Share Image
The big lie perpetrated on Western society is the idea of women’s inferiority, a lie so deeply ingrained in our social behaviour… — Molly Haskell Copy Share Image
Everyone believes that the prospect for a civil war has diminished significantly over the past several days. All the mainstream leaders of… — Zalmay Khalilzad Copy Share Image
Aviation has struck a delicately balanced world, a world where stability was already giving way to the pressure of new dynamic forces,… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
Distributed intelligence is the key to the advancement of human civilization. Dictatorships, communist countries, monarchies in the past all eventually collapsed because… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
A great civilization is not conquered from without, until it has destroyed itself from within. The essential causes of Rome's decline lay… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
For ever and anon the soul becomes weary of the conventions that are not of it, and with a single stroke shatters… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
The human race has reached a turning point. Man has opened the secrets of nature and mastered new powers. If he uses… — Harry S. Truman 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
Civilization, let me tell you what it is. First the soldier, then the merchant, then the priest, then the lawyer. The merchant… — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
This peace is not the absence of anything. Real peace is the presence of something beautiful. Both peace and the thirst for… — Prem Rawat Copy Share Image
For all I know we may be visited by a different extraterrestrial civilization every second Tuesday, but there's no support for this… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
There is certainly a longstanding idea within western culture that civilization is only a thin veneer. As soon as something happens, say… — Rutger Bregman Copy Share Image
Philosophers get attention only when they appear to be doing something sinister--corrupting the youth, undermining the foundations of civilization, sneering at all… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Karl Marx was the foremost hater and most incessant whiner in the history of Western Civilization. He was a spoiled, overeducated brat… — Gary North Copy Share Image
A person who has been seduced by the consumer value system, whose identity is dissolved in an amalgam of the accouterments trappings… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
“The old school of thought would have you believe that you'd be a fool to take on nature without arming yourself with… — Ryel Kestenbaum Copy Share Image
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