“What was civilization ever, really, but the attempt by man to talk himself into being good?” — Stanisław Lem Copy Share Image
Imagine what things would be like if the news media actually sided with civilization. — Glenn Reynolds Copy Share Image
Civilized society is one huge bourgeoisie: no nobleman dares now shock his greengrocer. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The earth is a fickle place for all life, not least the human project of civilization. — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
“All civilisation has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution.” — Havelock Ellis Copy Share Image
The city is the nerve center of our civilization. It is also the storm center, — Josiah Strong Copy Share Image
The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
If the Negro is not careful he will drink in all the poison of modern civilization and die from the effects of… — Marcus Garvey Copy Share Image
The Battle of France is over. The Battle of Britain is about to begin. Upon this battle depends the future of Christian… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
“I looked down at this city, this civilization, and I realized just how little I really knew about a world where there… — M.B. Julien Copy Share Image
Dining is the privilege of civilization. . . . The nation which knows how to dine has learnt the leading lesson of progress. — Isabella Beeton Copy Share Image
The story of civilization is, in a sense, the story of engineering-that long and arduous struggle to make the forces of nature… — L. Sprague de Camp Copy Share Image
Next to the striking of fire and the discovery of the wheel, the greatest triumph of what we call civilization was the… — Max Lerner Copy Share Image
I do not believe that civilizations have to die because civilization is not an organism. It is a product of wills. — Arnold J. Toynbee Copy Share Image
We released 400,000 classified documents, the most extraordinary history of a war to ever have been released in our civilization. Those documents… — Julian Assange Copy Share Image
“People usually feel funny, smile and laugh when I tell them about my strong belief in the very existence of prehistoric advanced… — Toba Beta Copy Share Image
What's at risk [in 100 years] if we do not take action, truly is the survival of civilization as we know it...… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
It is a terrible commentary on Christian civilization that the longest period of slave-raiding known to history was initiated by the action… — H. A. L. Fisher Copy Share Image
Here's Iraq, where irrigation was invented, where law was invented, where writing was invented. All these things that we consider necessities of… — Bruce Cockburn Copy Share Image
For nearly 2,000 years of Christian civilization, taking the life of an unborn child was regarded as a vile and heinous moral… — Ronald Butt Copy Share Image
I do not believe that the values which the Western democracies consider essential to civilization can survive in a world rent by… — Arthur Henderson Copy Share Image
I think we have powerful role-models among us in the American West. Certainly the Hopis, a timeless civilization that understands sustainability and… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
If I say your voice is an amber waterfall in which I yearn to burn each day, if you eat my mouth… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
Who could deny that privacy is a jewel? It has always been the mark of privilege, the distinguishing feature of a truly… — Phyllis McGinley Copy Share Image
“Politics bores you?" Bronsen said. Julien smiled. "It does. Apologies, sir, and it is not that I haven't tried to be fascinated.… — Iain Pears Copy Share Image
The human drama is reaching its denouement. The great unveiling is approaching, a time when the power structures of the world begin… — Anodea Judith Copy Share Image
“It is not a true civilization, and has nothing in it to satisfy a mature and fully developed human mind. It is… — H.P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
This truth may be unfashionable, unpalatable, no doubt unpopular, but, if it is the truth, the story of mankind shows that war… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Last evening attended Croghan Lodge International Order of Odd Fellows. Election of officers. Chosen Noble Grand. These social organizations have a number… — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
There is a broad distinction between religion and theology. The one is a natural, human experience common to all well-organized minds. The… — Lucretia Mott Copy Share Image
Because all the societies, all the nations, all the cultures, have taken it for granted that the individuals exist for them, not… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
![“What's at risk [in 100 years] if we do not take action, truly is the survival of civilization as we know it... Literally that is the case. We have seen global warming so far of just a little bit less than one degree Celsius and look at what's happened. Superstorm Sandy. Boulder Colorado. All these…” quote by Al Gore](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d36/al-gore-609_action_what-s-at-risk-in-100-years-if-we-do-not_538537.jpg)
