“A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself within” — Will Durant Copy Share Image
“Civilisation, after all, is defined by what we forbid, more than what we permit.” — Gregory David Roberts Copy Share Image
I think God's going to come down and pull civilization over for speeding. — Steven Wright Copy Share Image
The charms of seclusion are seldom combined with the conveniences of civilization. — Ethel Smyth Copy Share Image
Surely the only sound foundation for a civilization is a sound state of mind. — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
Civilization is always in danger when those who have never learned to obey are given the right to command. — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
Every civilization must contend with an unconscious force which can block, betray, or countermand almost any conscious intention of the collectivity. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
What feminism calls patriarchy is simply civilization , an abstract system designed by men but augmented and now co-owned by women. — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
The Muslims refuse our culture and try to impose their culture on us. I reject them, and this is not only my… — Oriana Fallaci Copy Share Image
Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Never had there been such an attempt to make conquest the servant of civilization. About keeping India there is no question. England… — Goldwin Smith Copy Share Image
Every civilization sees itself as the center of the world and writes its history as the central drama of human history. — Samuel P. Huntington Copy Share Image
To the present writer a careful study of the facts now available seems to leave no doubt that civilization was born at… — James Henry Breasted Copy Share Image
The Globalization of humanity is a natural, biological, evolutionary process. Yet we face an enormous crisis because the most central and important… — Elisabet Sahtouris Copy Share Image
Hate-on-the-highway is an institution occupying a high place in our modern civilization…The godawful glares that drivers exchange as they pass each other,… — H. Allen Smith Copy Share Image
It's more like there are some really obvious things that are different and then lots and lots of smaller things, lots of… — Casey Hudson Copy Share Image
I am sure no other civilization, not even the Romans, has showed such a vast proportion of ignominious and degraded nudity, and… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Strong drink stupefies a man and makes it possible for him to forget; it gives him an artificial cheeriness, an artificial excitement;… — Alexander Herzen Copy Share Image
I think the whole thing is kind of sad, honestly, in the same way that our civilization - particularly the consumers of… — Nick Offerman Copy Share Image
“And of course she had studied the civilization that had immediately preceded her own - the civilization that had mistaken the functions… — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
“Civilization is a horizon which we can approach, while barbarity is a background from which we seek to move away; neither condition… — Tzvetan Todorov Copy Share Image
“There are few words which are used more loosely than the word “Civilization.” What does it mean? It means a society based… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
In his scientific genius, man has wrought material miracles and has transformed his world. He has harnassed nature and has developed great… — Ralph Bunche Copy Share Image
Yes. They are the words that finally turned me into the hermit I have now become. It was quite sudden. I saw… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Here is one of the fundamental defects of American fiction--perhaps the one character that sets it off sharply from all other known… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
History leaves no doubt that among of the most regrettable crimes committed by human beings have been committed by those human beings… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Madness in Civilization is a brilliant, provocative, and hugely entertaining history of the treatment and mistreatment of the mentally ill. Packed with… — Dirk Wittenborn Copy Share Image
If aliens from outer space ever come and we show them our civilization and they make fun of it, we should say… — Jack Handey Copy Share Image
By the same right under which France took Flanders, Lorraine and Alsace, and will sooner or later take Belgium -- by that… — Friedrich Engels Copy Share Image
I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“(When asked what he thought of Western civilization): 'I think it would be a good idea.” — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“In the last stage of civilization, Poetry, Religion, and Philosophy will be one.” — Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Common man's patience will bring him more happiness than common man's power.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
Women will ignore precedent and startle civilization with their progress. — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
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