The next war... may well bury Western civilization forever. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
The test of civilization is the power of drawing the most benefit out of cities. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If civilization is to survive, it must live on the interest, not the capital, of nature. — Ronald Wright Copy Share Image
The civilized man is a larger mind but a more imperfect nature than the savage. — Margaret Fuller Copy Share Image
You are an ignorant schoolgirl. You think civilization is a good thing. — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
A savage is simply a human organism that has not received enough news from the human race. — John Ciardi Copy Share Image
“He realized that the ritualized world he had dismissed as feminine was in fact civilization.” — G Willow Wilson Copy Share Image
“Women might just have something to contribute to civilization other than their vaginas".” — Christopher Buckley Copy Share Image
“An angry artist tells people what (he thinks) they need to hear. A hungry artist tells people what (he thinks) they want… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“It goes without saying that a civilization which leaves so large a number of its participants unsatisfied and drives them into revolt… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
If modern civilization man had to kill the animals he eats, the number of vegetarians would rise astronomically. — Christian Morgenstern Copy Share Image
What then is the intellectual advantage of civilization over primitive savagery? It is not necessarily that each civilized man has more knowledge… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
We wear clothes, and speak, and create civilizations, and believe we are more than wolves. But inside us there is a word… — Anthony Marra Copy Share Image
No one is safe from nature's savagery,not even the innocent. Only beauty is consistent. Gabrielle envisions a time when the Savage Garden… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
The foundations of civilization are no stronger and no more enduring than the corporate integrity of the homes on which they rest.… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
As civilization has become more complex, and as the need for invisible government has been increasingly demonstrated, the technical means have been… — Edward Bernays Copy Share Image
We are constantly trying to cope with what our fathers or our grandfathers did. I wrote the book 'Great War of Civilization,'… — Robert Fisk Copy Share Image
“Because if civilization is going to last, if it's going to amount to anything more than just a place to watch TV… — Mark Russell Copy Share Image
To go back to a moment of Western civilization remote enough in time so that we should be able to look at… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“The function of the university is not simply to teach breadwinning, or to furnish teachers for the public schools, or to be… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Maui is a beautiful island. It's really the site of an ancient civilization that we've forgotten about, a civilization that existed millions… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
As in the fine arts, the progress of mankind from barbarism to civilisation is marked by a gradual succession of triumphs over… — Isabella Beeton Copy Share Image
If history reveals any categorical truth, it is that an insufficient taste for evidence regularly brings out the worst in us. Add… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
I have thought that a good test of civilization, perhaps one of the best, is country life. Where country life is safe… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
What you of the CHOAM directorate seem unable to understand is that you seldom find real loyalties in commerce. ... Men must… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
Most historians accept that Egypt was a cradle of civilization, and that many cultural idioms and traditions come from there. What has… — Michael Tsarion Copy Share Image
“It is as if the soul of the continent is weeping. Why does it weep? It weeps for the bones of the… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Sometimes, when I drive across the desert in the middle of the night, with no other cars around, I start imagining: What… — Jack Handey Copy Share Image
Marriage is under attack from so many different areas. There should be benefits associated with married people. Life is unfair. Maybe you… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
. . .in August in Mississippi there’s a few days somewhere about the middle of the month when suddenly there’s a foretaste… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
Nations are beginning to look to some vague organization, some nebulous course of humanity, to pay their bills and tell them what… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
Every system tries to get people to conform to support that system. That goes for communism, socialism, free enterprise, or any other… — Jacque Fresco Copy Share Image
