People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization. — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
Without civilization, we would not turn into animals, but vegetables. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
If youth were not ignorant and timid, civilization would be impossible. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Only world law can assure progress towards a civilized peaceful community. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
May this continent, the last explored by humankind, be the first one to be spared by humankind. — Jacques Yves Cousteau Copy Share Image
Nations, like individuals, live and die; but civilization cannot die. — Giuseppe Mazzini Copy Share Image
The moral development of a civilization is measured by the breadth of its sense of community. — Anatol Rapoport Copy Share Image
Yet, history has shown that if material force can defeat some ideologies it can no longer obliterate a civilization without destabilizing the… — Abdelaziz Bouteflika Copy Share Image
“In the past, the strongest individual was chosen as the leader or ruler. But the concept of civilization has decided to give… — Mwanandeke Kindembo Copy Share Image
“There is no literature and art without paranoia. Probably there would be even civilization. Paranoia is the world. It is the attempt… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
The way I think of my work is that I have to think up the way to tell a story, starting from… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
Malibu: With sounds of waves crashing, and the ocean at the doorstep, you feel like you are hours away from civilization. And… — Jennifer Harrison Copy Share Image
America seemed a virgin land waiting for civilization. But Europe had made the wilderness it found; America was not a virgin, she… — Ronald Wright Copy Share Image
Apart from the desire to produce beautiful things, the leading passion of my life has been and is hatred of modern civilization. — William Morris Copy Share Image
“Flushed with his impassioned gibberish, he saw himself standing alone on the last barrier of civilization.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
No race has the last word on culture and on civilization. You do not know what the black man is capable of;… — Marcus Garvey Copy Share Image
How aware are we of our own inner life, our spirituality-something so intangible yet so priceless? How much effort do we make… — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
A young man who had been troubling society with impalpable doctrines of a new civilization which he called "the Kingdom of Heaven"… — George William Russell Copy Share Image
If I thought that I could speak with discrimination and impartiality of the nations of Christendom, I should praise them, but it… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
...the materialism of modern civilization is paradoxically founded on a hatred of materiality, a goal-oriented desire to obliterate all natural limits through… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
Bare-faced covetousness was the moving spirit of civilization from its first dawn to the present day; wealth, and again wealth, and for… — Friedrich Engels Copy Share Image
Our carbon emissions have to eventually go to zero. We have to. Otherwise we're never going to have a stable climate and… — Katharine Hayhoe Copy Share Image
The more one observes, the more clearly does he see that it is in the soil of pure science that are found… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
I believe this nation hungers for a spiritual revival; hungers to once again see honor placed above political expediency; to see government… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
When authoritative reports of radical-design craft having spectacular performance are viewed in the light of a stream of astrobiological discoveries, the possibility… — Don Berliner Copy Share Image
The dog that buried the bone which even a canine appetite could not manage, the squirrel that gathered nuts for a later… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
“It's probably not easy for a woman to understand what it's like to be a man. Imagine you're starving, and someone puts… — Oliver Markus Copy Share Image
[May] this civic and social landmark [the Washington, D.C., Jewish Community Center] ... be a constant reminder of the inspiring service that… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
“But, as I learned from talking to the scientist behind the study cited in that article, the real theory is much more… — Robert Evans Copy Share Image
Inability to accept the mystic experience is more than an intellectual handicap. Lack of awareness of the basic unity of organism and… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
“Many are the lives of men unwritten, which have nevertheless as powerfully influenced civilization and progress as the more fortunate Great whose… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
Civilization survives on the constant discovery of amity and an equal supply of damnation. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
There is no hope for a civilization which starts each day to the sound of an alarm clock. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I have always believed that technology drives human civilization's endeavor and progress. — Mukesh Ambani Copy Share Image
“This civilization is the impact of the world's consumption behavior.” — Toba Beta [Betelgeuse Incident Copy Share Image
Civilizations can only be understood by those who are civilized. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
“Civilization is the ability to share what makes us similar in the respect of what makes us different.” — Dario de Judicibus Copy Share Image
The Lincoln Memorial is related to the toga and the civilization that wore it. — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
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