An odd thing occurs in the minds of Americans when Indian civilization in mentioned: little or nothing. — Paula Gunn Allen Copy Share Image
“Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessaries.” — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“She suspected that civilization had been invented to make more stories. And” — Gardner R. Dozois Copy Share Image
There can be no high civilization where there is not ample leisure. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
The worlds civilization started from the day on which everyone received reward for labour. — Andrew Carnegie Copy Share Image
Probably, no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both. — Abraham Flexner Copy Share Image
No matter what we call it, poison is still poison, death is still death, and industrial civilization is still causing the greatest… — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
Funding a civilization through advertising is like trying to get nutrition by connecting a tube from one’s anus to one’s mouth. — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
Muslims stand by their religion entirely. It is a sort of religious absolutism. While Europeans have stopped defending the values of their… — Bassam Tibi Copy Share Image
If we don't cut carbon's money pipeline, we will pay for their gasoline with floods, droughts, fires, super storms, drowned cities, mass… — Robert F. Kennedy, Jr Copy Share Image
What's true for us as individual humans is true for the civilization we create: a sprint culture, seeking ever greater speed and… — Ed Ayres Copy Share Image
Never before has a civilization reached such a degree of a contempt for life; never before has a generation, drowned in mortification,… — Raoul Vaneigem Copy Share Image
If men were ever to lose the appetite for meaning we call thinking, they would lose the capacity for asking all the… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Modern civilization is so complex as to make the devotional life all but impossible. It wears us out by multiplying distractions and… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
By and large, the answer to the question "How do large institutions survive?" is "They don't!" The vast majority of large modern-day… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
What AI could do is essentially be a power tool that magnifies human intelligence and gives us the ability to move our… — Stuart J. Russell Copy Share Image
So I should say that civilizations begin with religion and stoicism: they end with scepticism and unbelief, and the undisciplined pursuit of… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
Prosperity is an essential partner in civilization itself. It is the basis of leisure, charity, and a hopeful outlook on life. It… — Llewellyn Rockwell Copy Share Image
The question is not whether there is intelligent life out there, the question is, whether there is intelligent life down here. As… — Jacque Fresco Copy Share Image
And all this madness, all this rage, all this flaming death of our civilization and our hopes, has been brought about because… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The human imagination may be the most elastic thing in the universe, stretching to encompass the millions of dreams that in centuries… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Chief among our gains must be reckoned this possibility of choice, the recognition of many possible ways of life, where other civilizations… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
“Civilizations are the generations of the racial soul. As family-rearing, and then writing, bound the generations together, handing down the lore of… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
“The year 2100 will see eugenics universally established. In past ages, the law governing the survival of the fittest roughly weeded out… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
“The earliest use of writing was strictly commercial and economic, not political or bureaucratic. It was trade, entrepreneurship, and stewardship of private… — Jakub Bożydar Wiśniewski Copy Share Image
The Socratic maxim that the recognition of our ignorance is the beginning of wisdom has profound significance for our understanding of society.… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
“Praise be to Allah, who revealed the Book, controls the clouds, defeats factionalism, and says in His Book: 'But when the forbidden… — Osama bin Laden Copy Share Image
At the beginning of the 20th century, there were less than 3 billion people on the earth, closer to 2 billion. By… — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image
The American Dream that has lured tens of millions of all nations to our shores in the past century has not been… — James Truslow Adams Copy Share Image
