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
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
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
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
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
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
[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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
No administration could stop the tidal wave of immigration that swept over the land; no political party could restrain or control the… — Nelson A. Miles Copy Share Image
“Civilization, her mother had told her since she was small, was a series of agreements about what was good for everyone, enforced… — Maile Meloy Copy Share Image
“[They] may have for instance taken the view of Edmund Burke, who in the 18th century made the central conservative insight; that… — Douglas Murray Copy Share Image
The skylines lit up at dead of night, the air-conditioning systems cooling empty hotels in the desert and artificial light in the… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
When a man loves a woman, he has to become worthy of her. The higher her virtue, the more noble her character,… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
And so, inevitably, one returns to the centre of Western culture, Greece, and we have never, in any sense, lost our ties… — Stephen Gardiner Copy Share Image
Thus lynch law held sway in the far West until civilization spread into the Territories and the orderly processes of law took… — Ida B. Wells Copy Share Image
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