No civilization other than that which is Christian, is worth seeking or possessing. — Otto von Bismarck Copy Share Image
Civilization is the lamb's skin in which barbarism masquerades. — Thomas Bailey Aldrich Copy Share Image
Modern civilization has no understanding of sacred matters. Everything is backwards. — Thomas Yellowtail Copy Share Image
“The most frightful of all spectacles is the strength of the civilization without its mercy.” — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
No matter what we call it, poison is still poison, death is still death, and industrial civilization is still causing the greatest… — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
Muslims stand by their religion entirely. It is a sort of religious absolutism. While Europeans have stopped defending the values of their… — Bassam Tibi Copy Share Image
Funding a civilization through advertising is like trying to get nutrition by connecting a tube from one’s anus to one’s mouth. — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
What's true for us as individual humans is true for the civilization we create: a sprint culture, seeking ever greater speed and… — Ed Ayres Copy Share Image
If we don't cut carbon's money pipeline, we will pay for their gasoline with floods, droughts, fires, super storms, drowned cities, mass… — Robert F. Kennedy, Jr Copy Share Image
If men were ever to lose the appetite for meaning we call thinking, they would lose the capacity for asking all the… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Never before has a civilization reached such a degree of a contempt for life; never before has a generation, drowned in mortification,… — Raoul Vaneigem Copy Share Image
“I wouldn't mind a bit seeing all civilization crumble like a mason's scaffolding before the building was finished--” — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
Man's Chief purpose is the creation and preservation of values; that is what gives meaning to our civilization, and the participation in… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
I believe that Western civilization, after some disgusting glitches, has become almost civilized. I believe it is our first duty to protect… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
I felt shame for living in a nation of unprecedented prosperity-a nation that spends a smaller percentage of income on food than… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
There are two parts to the human dilemma. One is the belief that the end justifies the means. That push-button philosophy, that… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
It's worth remembering that all technology leaves a footprint. For example, our own technology is leaving a footprint in terms of global… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
So long as Muslims continue looking towards Western civilization as the only force that could regenerate their own stagnant society, they destroy… — Muhammad Asad Copy Share Image
Story was that human civilization started to develop with first social network. Emerged where population concentration was high. Helped propel to where… — Yuri Milner Copy Share Image
For the grand and inescapable tradition of western literary classics confronts us with fundamental choices over our understanding of words, reading and… — Os Guinness Copy Share Image
To know only one thing well is to have a barbaric mind: civilization implies the graceful relation of all varieties of experience… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
All "if" statements about the past are as dubious as prophecies of the future are. It seems fairly plausible that if Alexander… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
“Swords, Lances, arrows, machine guns, and even high explosives have had far less power over the fates of nations than the typhus… — Hans Zinsser Copy Share Image
Before we invented civilization our ancestors lived mainly in the open out under the sky. Before we devised artificial lights and atmospheric… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
It is the lawyers who run our civilization for us -- our governments, our business, our private lives. Most legislators are lawyers;… — Fred Rodell Copy Share Image
I believe with all my heart that civilization has produced nothing finer than a man or woman who thinks and practices true… — Frank Knox Copy Share Image
As we enter the 21st Century it is clear that we have entered an unprecedented global age in which our diverse cultures,… — Ashok Gangadean Copy Share Image
“Civilization is social order promoting cultural creation. Four elements constitute it: economic provision, political organization, moral tradition, and the pursuit of knowledge… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
For you will sorely miss civilization if it is sacrificed in the turbulence of change. — Will Durant Copy Share Image
Tolerance is held to be a condition of mind which is encouraged by, and is necessary for, civilization. — Arthur Keith Copy Share Image
“What is the point of having a civilization, if we do not practice being civilized!” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
The great enemy of any attempt to change men's habits is inertia. Civilization is limited by intertia. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Social science affirms that a woman's place in society marks the level of civilization. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
In the end, the character of a civilization is encased in its structures. — Frank Gehry Copy Share Image
Champagne is the wine of civilization and the oil of government. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
