War is one of the constants of history, and it has not diminished with civilization or democracy. — Will Durant Copy Share Image
New York... when civilization falls apart, remember, we were way ahead of you. — David Letterman Copy Share Image
“Cultures that do not wish to exist cannot be dissuaded from destroying themselves.” — David P. Goldman Copy Share Image
There's no such thing as civilization. The word just means the art of living in cities. — Roger Zelazny Copy Share Image
Had Greek civilization never existed ... we would never have become fully conscious. — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
Arts are a luxury, proof that a civilization has risen above 'politics and war.' — Nell Scovell Copy Share Image
Here among the constant ruins and rebuilding of civilizations lies the coexistence of diversity and intolerance. — David K. Shipler Copy Share Image
“You are so civilized. So polite. So brave coming here alone when you know no one here would dare to touch you.… — Ann Leckie Copy Share Image
Now, being a POW certainly doesn't qualify anyone to be president. But it does reveal character. This is the kind of character… — Fred Thompson Copy Share Image
If we were to place our power at the service of our imaginations rather than our primate politics we would create a… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
A warming of this magnitude would risk the end of civilization as we know it by the end of this century. — Peter Barrett Copy Share Image
Maybe they didn't want you to realize that every civilization has its weakness. There's always one thing we depend on. And if… — Scott Westerfeld Copy Share Image
There's no way that music could ever go down the tubes. I can't imagine a civilization without music. When you realize today… — Clive Davis Copy Share Image
Probably, no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both. — Abraham Flexner Copy Share Image
Ancient and oriental civilizations were more sensitive than we are to the cycles of things; to the succession of generations, both divine… — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
We live in a glass-soaked civilization, but as for the bird in the Chinese proverb who finds it so difficult to discover… — Alan Macfarlane Copy Share Image
I don't make a Bible argument in the ad, nor have I made a bible argument in the public space. My argument… — Gary Bauer Copy Share Image
Civilization will not last, freedom will not survive, peace will not be kept, unless a very large majority of mankind unite together… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
The influence of geographic factors diminishes as technology grows. The character and contour of a terrain may offer opportunities for agriculture, mining,… — Ariel Durant Copy Share Image
Artists no longer starve in garrets. Some people may think this is not wholly a good thing, that being an artist has… — J. M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
“Civilization has absolutely no need of nobility or heroism. These things are symptoms of political ineffiency. In a properly organized society like… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If the humanism that makes civilization civilized is to be preserved into the new century, it will need advocates. These advocates will… — Clive James Copy Share Image
“Civilization – and by this I do not mean talking cinemas and tinned food, nor even surgery and hygienic houses, but the… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
“After weaning the indigenous people's of Egypt: 'from their miserable and barbarous manners, [Osiris] taught them how to till the earth, and… — Graham Hancock Copy Share Image
“America ... has created a 'civilization' that represents an exact contradiction of the ancient European tradition. It has introduced the religion of… — Julius Evola Copy Share Image
Our civilization is locked in the grip of an ideology - corporatism. An ideology that denies and undermines the legitimacy of individuals… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
The provision of health care facilities must be accepted as a social responsibility. It is not that an individual who has the… — Toh Chin Chye Copy Share Image
I say that almost everywhere there is beauty enough to fill a person's life if one would only be sensitive to it.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Civilization was a dance, and the ancient Wyr were late to the ball. They donned masks and slipped with silent predatory grace… — Thea Harrison Copy Share Image
“It’s sometimes argued that there’s no real progress; that a civilization that kills multitudes in mass warfare, that pollutes the land and… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
Is a planetary surface the right place for an expanding technological civilization? — Gerard K. O'Neill Copy Share Image
From the first day to this, sheer greed was the driving spirit of civilization. — Friedrich Engels Copy Share Image
“Men need play & danger. Civilization gives them work and safety.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Progress in civilization has been accompanied by progress in cookery. — Fannie Farmer Copy Share Image
Civilization in certain respects is as inadequate as it was a thousand years ago. — Gertrude Atherton Copy Share Image
There is no document of civilization which is not at the same time a document of barbarism. — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
Everything we have of value as human beings - as a civilization - is the result of our intelligence. — Stuart J. Russell Copy Share Image
No civilization has a monopoly on tolerance; each is capable of bigotry. — Amitava Kumar Copy Share Image
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