“Every civilization had to start with the basics: food, water, and shelter.” — Brett Arquette Copy Share Image
“What is the point of being humans, if our actions scream with more bestiality than humanity!” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Civilization as we know it today would be in jeopardy if the Republicans win the Senate. — Nancy Pelosi Copy Share Image
One is a member of a country, a profession, a civilization, a religion. One is not just a man. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
A modern and humane civilization must control conception or sink into barbaric cruelty to individuals. — Marie Stopes Copy Share Image
To us the family is the cornerstone of civilization and must ever be. It is the foundation of proper human relationships. — Mark E. Petersen Copy Share Image
Some people say that taxes are the price we pay for civilization. But the runaway taxes of our time are the price… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
“The mark of the truly civilized is their (truly baffling to the likes of you and me) patience with what truly baffles.” — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
“Nations rise and fall, flourish and decay, by what they believe in and by what their culture stands for.” — Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha Copy Share Image
The world no longer has a choice between force and law; if civilization is to survive, it must choose the rule of… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
[Barack Obama] believes climate change is a bigger threat to our country than these barbaric Islamic terrorists that have as their organizing… — Jeb Bush Copy Share Image
Dietary fat, whether saturated or not, is not a cause of obesity, heart disease or any other chronic disease of civilization. — Andrew Weil Copy Share Image
You cannot organize civilization around the core of militarism and at the same time expect reason to control human destinies. — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
God makes it really clear that society and civilization is really held together by the glue of families... When a man and… — Kirk Cameron Copy Share Image
Communism is the final logic of the dehumanization of man. The industrial civilization of the Western world has no intent to destroy… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
We must not try to force him to take civilization immediately in its complete form, but under just laws, guaranteeing to Indians… — George Crook Copy Share Image
It is in the long run essential to the growth of any new and high civilization that small groups of men can… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
After once having made the mistake of watching television news, I had worried for a while about an asteroid hitting the earth… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
The American economic, political, and social organization has given to its citizens the benefits of material prosperity, political liberty, and a wholesome… — Herbert Croly Copy Share Image
Whoever desires to live among men has to obey their laws this is what the secular morality of Western civilization comes down… — Max Horkheimer 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
As a great democratic society, we have a special responsibility to the arts. For art is the great democrat, calling forth creative… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
“Nobody can understand the greatness of the thirteenth century, who does not realize that it was a great growth of new things… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“With the coming of spring they would start back to the highlands, their flocks heavy with fat and wool; the caravans loaded… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Liberty, next to religion has been the motive of good deeds and the common pretext of crime, from the sowing of the… — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
Agriculture seems to be the first pursuit of civilized man. It enables him to escape from the life of the savage, and… — Edward Everett Copy Share Image
“In order to build a truly wise society devoid of any kind of existential crisis, it is imperative that the individuals foster… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
But in practical affairs, particularly in politics, men are needed who combine human experience and interest in human relations with a knowledge… — Max Born Copy Share Image
In the old days, people used to risk their lives in India or in the Americas in order to bring back products… — Claude Levi-Strauss Copy Share Image
What do I think of Western civilization? I think it would be a very good idea. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Compassion isn't a sign of weakness, but a mark of civilization. — Nicholas D. Kristof Copy Share Image
Trout plus bacon is one of civilization's greatest formulas; it always equals pleasure. — Jonathan Miles Copy Share Image
“Civilization is the general agreement to refrain from resorting to violence if negotiations fail.” — Stefan Molyneux Copy Share Image
Civilization, after all, is defined by what we forbid, more than what we permit. — Gregory David Roberts Copy Share Image
The imagination is the secret and marrow of civilization. It is the very eye of faith. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
“Expression and communication are essential; without these, civilization ends.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Most of the stone a nation hammers goes toward its tomb only. It buries itself alive. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image