The worth of a civilization or a culture is not valued in the terms of its material wealth or military power, but… — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
Space, the final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. Its five-year mission: to explore strange new worlds, to seek… — Gene Roddenberry Copy Share Image
The goal of every culture is to decay through over-civilization; the factors of decadence, -- luxury, skepticism, weariness and superstition, -- are… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
Throughout the Arab and Islamic world the feeling is that we are now in top gear for a war of civilizations, a… — Husain Haqqani Copy Share Image
But the place which you have selected for your camp, though never so rough and grim, begins at once to have its… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I know of no civilization that tolerates or justifies violence, terrorism, or injustice. There is no civilization that justifies the killing of… — Shirin Ebadi Copy Share Image
The Frankenstein of Communism is the product of the Jewish mind, and was turned loose upon the world by the son of… — Kenneth Goff Copy Share Image
The destructive impact of psychiatry upon our civilization has been given far too little attention, and the role of psychiatry in Nazi… — Peter Breggin Copy Share Image
“Because a thing is going strong now, it need not go strong for ever,' she said. 'This craze for motion has only… — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
Just as any moron can destroy a priceless Ming vase, so the shallow and ill-educated people who run our schools can undermine… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
I represent a party which does not yet exist: the party Revolution-Civilization. This party will make the twentieth century. There will issue… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Despite our complicated civilization, so called, or perhaps on account of it, we are all of us a mere set of barbarians,… — Vernon Lee Copy Share Image
Although knaves win in every political struggle, although society seems to be delivered over from the hands of one set of criminals… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Everybody is always talking about droughts and sea level rise, but when human civilization, with more crowding and greater resource depletion, is… — James Cameron Copy Share Image
The death of Lincoln was a disaster for Christendom. There was no man in the United States great enough to wear his… — Otto von Bismarck Copy Share Image
We're losing film, especially in projection, we're losing a great achievement of civilization. A still image and darkness make up 50% of… — Laszlo Nemes Copy Share Image
“What was civilization ever, really, but the attempt by man to talk himself into being good? Only good mind you. The rest… — Stanislaw Lem Copy Share Image
Global warming is not a threat. But environmentalism's response to it is…Even if global warming is a fact, the free citizens of… — George Reisman Copy Share Image
The sign, which says: "Do not, under any circumstances, open this door!" - Of course, I've read it. Why do you think… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, the optimistic view that "classical civilization" handed down certain fundamental works that managed to include the knowledge contained in the lost… — Lucio Russo Copy Share Image
Our early 21st century civilization is in trouble. We need not go beyond the world food economy to see this. Over the… — Lester R. Brown Copy Share Image
The only argument this president needs to persuade Americans is that sacking Saddam is necessary for the security of America and the… — Wesley Pruden Copy Share Image
The prevalence of suicide, without doubt, is a test of height in civilization; it means that the population is winding up its… — Havelock Ellis Copy Share Image
We all live under the constant threat of our own annihilation. Only by the most outrageous violation of ourselves have we achieved… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We've gotta become the Martians. I'm a Martian - I tell you to become Martians. And we've gotta go to Mars and… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
To spread healthy ideas among even the lowest classes of people, to remove men from the influence of prejudice and passion, to… — Georges Cuvier Copy Share Image
What little wilderness remains displays the patterns we must return to, if our species and as many others as now remain are… — Stephanie Mills Copy Share Image
The Logos is a voice heard, in the head. And the Logos was the hand on the rudder of human civilization for… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
To me, every fundamentalist Muslim, no matter how peaceable in his own behavior, is part of a murderous movement and is thus,… — Daniel Pipes Copy Share Image
More and more, as civilization develops, we find the primitive to be essential to us. We root into the primitive as a… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
Whatever oppressions man has suffered, they have invariably fallen more heavily on woman. Whatever new liberties advancing civilization has brought to man,… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
Life on earth is hard. Competition for the necessities of life is fierce. How ridiculous to believe that the law of harsh… — Greg Bear Copy Share Image
You've no idea how wonderful toilet paper is until it's taken away from you by an unfeeling universe. I think it's the… — Peter F. Hamilton Copy Share Image
Civilization has given us enormous successes: going to the moon, technology. But then this is the civilisation that took us to debt,… — Muhammad Yunus 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
I simply don't like the culture of drugs. I never liked the hippies for it. I think it was a mistake to… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
A 'civilization' that makes such a ridiculous fuss about alleged 'war crimes' - acts of violence against the actual or potential enemies… — Savitri Devi Copy Share Image
“Our early history is lost in mist. It seems all we ever did was break rocks and beat each other with clubs.… — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share Image
You don’t owe prettiness to anyone. Not to your boyfriend/spouse/partner, not to your co-workers, especially not to random men on the street.… — Erin McKean Copy Share Image
In The Ecology of Freedom, my critique of what is called civilization and industrial society is massive, and my attack upon [Karl]… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image