“Famine was the mark of a maturing agricultural society, the very badge of civilization.” — Richard Manning Copy Share Image
To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization. — Arnold J. Toynbee Copy Share Image
I think the theatre is as essential to civilization as safe, pure water. — Vanessa Redgrave Copy Share Image
Public transportation is like a magnifying glass that shows you civilization up close. — Chris Gethard Copy Share Image
Leash: n, a means by which animals, formerly running wild, are prevented from running tame, also. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
The taming and domestication of religion is one of the unceasing chores of civilization. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
No civilization, no matter how mighty it may appear to itself, is indestructible. — Niall Ferguson Copy Share Image
The destiny of world civilization depends upon providing a decent standard of living for all mankind. — Norman Borlaug Copy Share Image
It is not funny that a man should be killed, but it is sometimes funny that he should be killed for so… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
Who are we to say what's right for civilizations that were already thousands of years old when our own nation came into… — Unita Blackwell Copy Share Image
I would suggest that barbarism be considered as a permanent and universal human characteristic which becomes more or less pronounced according to… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
We are not a civilized country if we can read in a newspaper what a lady tells her boyfriend or husband. — Silvio Berlusconi Copy Share Image
I have a fascination with Egypt. It's the greatest civilization. When the rest of the world was still in darkness, there were… — Montel Vontavious Porter Copy Share Image
Terrorism thrives on a free society. The terrorist uses the feelings in a free society to sap the will of civilization to… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
The greatest task before civilization at present is to make machines what they ought to be, the slaves, instead of the masters… — Havelock Ellis Copy Share Image
If we don't change, if the egoic consciousness continues, I don't believe that humanity as a species can survive, or at least… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
It is my belief that we need a new transnational sustaining 'myth' that can impart value and respect. It is my further… — Stuart Kauffman Copy Share Image
“Every human generation has its own illusions with regard to civilization; some believe they are taking part in its upsurge, others that… — Ivo Andrić Copy Share Image
“And you don’t like my saying that, but here’s the truth: luxury always comes at someone else’s expense. One of the many… — Ann Leckie Copy Share Image
I'm sorry that government involves filling out a lot of forms. ... I'm sorry myself that we're not still on the frontier,… — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
For 200 years, the West has been so dominant in the world that it's not really needed to understand other cultures, other… — Martin Jacques Copy Share Image
As I walked back to civilization, I realized that for the first time in the six months I had known Curran, we… — Ilona Andrews Copy Share Image
But however secure and well-regulated civilized life may become, bacteria, Protozoa, viruses, infected fleas, lice, ticks, mosquitoes, and bedbugs will always lurk… — Hans Zinsser Copy Share Image
In my opinion there is no other salvation for civilization and even for the human race than the creation of a world… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
From my childhood it has been my conviction that men would reach the planets in my lifetime . . . this conviction… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
“How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
During my span of life science has become a matter of public concern and the l'art pour l'art standpoint of my youth… — Max Born Copy Share Image
Modern civilization is largely devoted to the pursuit of the cult of delusion. There is no general information about the nature of… — Sogyal Rinpoche Copy Share Image
One of the greatest challenges facing civilization in the twenty-first century is for human beings to learn to speak about their deepest… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
the present Western civilization ... is dominated by the extravert viewpoint. There are plenty of reasons for this domination: extraverts are more… — Isabel Briggs Myers Copy Share Image
We have a system which, though far from perfect, is strong with idealism. It gives elbow room for men of all races… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
Will not perhaps the temporal power of Islam return and with it the menace of an armed Mohammedan world, which will shake… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
When people have to choose between civilization and warm genitals, they choose warm genitals — John Green Copy Share Image
Civilization changes man on the outside. Meditation softens him within, through and through. — Henepola Gunaratana Copy Share Image
“...our own barbaric civilization, in awe of the act of creation, does not respect creation at all.” — Péter Nádas Copy Share Image
A civilization is as great as its dreams, and its dreams are dreamt by artists. — L. Ron Hubbard Copy Share Image
