“What 'primitive' men called gossip, 'civilized' men call news.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
We will never have true civilization until we have learned to recognize the rights of others. — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
“But that's the whole aim of civilization: to make everything a source of enjoyment.” — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
If the Aborigine drafted an I.Q. test, all of Western civilization would presumably flunk it. — Stanley Marion Garn Copy Share Image
When work goes out of style we may expect to see civilization totter and fall. — John D. Rockefeller Copy Share Image
“No offense, but it seems like the whole point of civilization is to get someone else to do your killing for you.” — Mark Russell Copy Share Image
When civilization takes a nose dive, how can you look away? You've got to be there. You've got to be at the… — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
It is in the best interests of civilization and our economy and our nation to understand what objective truths are as revealed… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Wherever we look, the work of the chemist has raised the level of our civilization and has increased the productive capacity of… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
“You cannot be civilized until you're decolonized, you cannot be cultured until you're unamericanized, you cannot be educated until you're de-europeanized, you… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Isn't the only hope for the planet that the industrialized civilizations collapse? Isn't it our responsibility to bring this about? — Maurice Strong Copy Share Image
Technique has taken over the whole of civilization. Death, procreation, birth all submit to technical efficiency and systemization. — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
It will take a long time, and certainly the West will remain the dominant civilization well into the next century, but the… — Samuel P. Huntington 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
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
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
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
My argument is simple, which is, that for several thousand years in Western civilization, marriage has been the union of one man… — Gary Bauer Copy Share Image
I would not like to draw analogies, with the past.Governments, leaders, intellectuals, mainly intellectuals who should know the ethical dimensions, are so… — Elie Wiesel 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 first man who, having enclosed a piece of ground, bethought himself of saying This is mine , and found people simple… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
“Not only is domination paid for with the estrangement of human beings from the dominated objects. but the relationships of human beings,… — Max Horkheimer Copy Share Image
“It was all here for me, just as it has all been here for you, the best and the worst of Western… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Humor has been a fashioning instrument in America, cleaving its way through the national life, holding tenaciously to the spread elements of… — Constance Rourke Copy Share Image
“I believe order is better than chaos, creation better than destruction. I prefer gentleness to violence, forgiveness to vendetta. On the whole… — Kenneth Clark Copy Share Image
We have gone a long way toward civilization and religious tolerance, and we have a good example in this country. Here the… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
“The privilege of opening the first trial in history for crimes against the peace of the world imposes a grave responsibility. The… — Robert H. Jackson Copy Share Image
Some of the beliefs and legends bequethed to us by Antquity are so universally and firmly established that we have become accustomed… — Frederick Soddy Copy Share Image
Unless we redesign our civilization in numerous ways, all of the science in the world won't save us. — William H. Calvin Copy Share Image
“Civilization is held together by duct tape and spit, and I'm worried about the duct tape.” — Jacqueline Patricks Copy Share Image
You cannot build nonviolence on a factory civilization, but it can be built on self-contained villages. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Civilization is the distance man has placed between himself and his excreta. — Brian Aldiss Copy Share Image
How a society treats its disabled is the true measure of a civilization. — Chen Guangcheng Copy Share Image
“Science is a trigger of changes of civilization. Religion is the failsafe of science performance.” — Toba Beta [Betelgeuse Incident Copy Share Image
