Every civilization finds it necessary to negotiate compromises with its own values. — Golda Meir Copy Share Image
The real index of civilization is when people are kinder than they need to be. — Louis de Bernieres Copy Share Image
Civilization does everything for the mind and favors it entirely at the expense of the body. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Art is the response of the living to life. It is therefore the record left behind by civilization. — John French Sloan Copy Share Image
Of what value is a civilization that can't toast a piece of bread as ordered? — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Civilization rests on the fact that most people do the right thing most of the time. — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Each succeeding civilization forgets its predecessor. Civilizations are ghouls. — Gutzon Borglum Copy Share Image
Machinery is the chief symbol of modern civilization; it represents a great sin. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
In a state of nature, the weakest go to the wall; in a state of over-refinement, both the weak and the strong… — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
The aim of eugenics is to represent each class or sect by its best specimens; that done, to leave them to work… — Francis Galton Copy Share Image
All over the world the wildlife that I write about is in grave danger. It is being exterminated by what we call… — Gerald Durrell Copy Share Image
Paul Brunton was surely one of the finest mystical flowers to grow on the wasteland of our secular civilization. What he has… — Georg Feuerstein Copy Share Image
You don't fight to protect warships or old men. Like the book says, you fight to save your civilization. And so often… — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
Our most intimate contact with civilizations long since dust has been through the art which has survived them. — Carlisle Floyd Copy Share Image
“The true test of civilization is not the census, nor the size of the cities, nor the crops – no, but the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There is no fundamental difference in the ways of thinking of primitive and civilized man. A close connection between race and personality… — Franz Boas Copy Share Image
Thus, it was to seek true civilization and true justice for all the peoples of the world, and to view this as… — Hideki Tojo Copy Share Image
To pretend that civilization can exist without destroying its own landbase and the landbases and cultures of others is to be entirely… — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
The key is the Internet. The United States is by far the most advanced country in this new digital culture, so we… — Carlos Slim Copy Share Image
People say 'what do you mean' when you talk about 'bringing down civilization.' What I really mean is depriving the rich of… — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
Here we are at the edge of the world, the very edge of Western civilization, and all of us are so desperate… — M.I.A Copy Share Image
Without metaphor the handling of general concepts such as culture and civilization becomes impossible, and that of disease and disorder is the… — Johan Huizinga Copy Share Image
We have progressed in a technological sense, but I'm not so sure whether we have progressed in a civilizational matter - the… — Laszlo Nemes Copy Share Image
Humankind has suddenly entered into a brand new relationship with our planet. Unless we quickly and profoundly change the course of our… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
Our civilization is not Christian. It does not come from the skies. It is not a result of inspiration. It is the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Thanks to this availability of suitable wild mammals and plants, early peoples of the Fertile Crescent could quickly assemble a potent and… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
“Unspoken Truths (The Sonnet) Democracy is people-approved dictatorship, Military is people-approved genocide. Atom bombs are people-approved armageddon, In conscience-court all guilty of… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Imagination has given us the steam engine, the telephone, the talking-machine, and the automobile, for these things had to be dreamed of… — L. Frank Baum Copy Share Image
What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions. Life is plurality, death is uniformity. By suppressing… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
“The fullest account we have of Oannes is found in surviving fragments of the works of a Babylonian priest called Berossos who… — Graham Hancock Copy Share Image
“ Telegraph Road A long time ago came a man on a track Walking thirty miles with a pack on his back… — Mark Knopfler Copy Share Image
The significance of the vast Islamic scientific tradition for Muslims and especially for young Muslims today is not only that it gives… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image
Civilization had too many rules for me, so I did my best to rewrite them. — Bill Cosby Copy Share Image
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