The first light of human consciousness and the world's first civilizations were in Africa. — John Henrik Clarke Copy Share Image
Our way of life is at stake, our grandchildren are at stake, the future of civilization is at stake. — Al Gore Copy Share Image
That contagion idea is so relevant and shows how quickly civilization could self-destruct. — Alycia Debnam-Carey Copy Share Image
Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled. — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
Our assignment was to topple this prudish, judgmental civilization. And it worked. — Timothy Leary Copy Share Image
Civilization is a disease produced by the practice of building societies with rotten material. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Civilization is not by means an easy thing to attain to. There are only two ways by which man can reach it.… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“The general air of insecurity and affection made it too easy for him to imagine these once-a-year fabulous creatures as the cubicle… — charlie huston Copy Share Image
Violence and irrationality were so long and thoroughly cultivated among the Irish, and so perfectly ingrained into their nature, that modern civilization… — Thomas Mellon Copy Share Image
The family dinner table is the cornerstone of civilization and those who 'graze' from refrigerators or in front of the television sets… — Judith Martin Copy Share Image
“America is the only civilization in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization” — Georges Clemenceau Copy Share Image
I am convinced that not only do children need children's books to fine-tune their brains, but our civilization needs them if we… — E. L. Konigsburg Copy Share Image
We cannot be sure that we ought not to regard the most criminal country as that which in some aspects possesses the… — Havelock Ellis Copy Share Image
The psychedelic experience is not a journey into the human unconscious, or into the ghost bards of our human civilization. It's a… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
We take, and must continue to take, morally hazardous actions to preserve our civilization. We must exercise our power. But we ought… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
I have always unswervingly held, that God, in our civilizing world, manifests Himself not in the miracles of biblical age, but in… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
If a superior alien civilization sent us a message saying, 'We'll arrive in a few decades', would we just reply, 'OK, call… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
The dead spacecraft in orbit have become a permanent fixture around our planet, not unlike the rings of Saturn. They will be… — Trevor Paglen Copy Share Image
But that so many scholars are barbarians does not much matter so long as a few of them are ready to help… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
It now appears that the negro race is, more than any other, susceptible of rapid civilization. The emancipation is observed, in the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The health of our home planet and the survival of our species will only be secured through the use of space resources… — Bob Richards Copy Share Image
How can one explain all the time and thought that goes into raising a child, all the opportunities for mistakes, all the… — Mary Blakely Copy Share Image
Roddenberry had his own utopian vision about he perfectibility of man, and I never really believed that. And I don’t think the… — Nicholas Meyer Copy Share Image
The three values which men held for centuries and which have now collapsed are: mysticism, collectivism, altruism. Mysticism - as a cultural… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Not in the name of a necessary protection of the white race did the European break into China, but for the benefit… — Alfred Rosenberg Copy Share Image
These strengths, and our civilization in general, have reached an apogee with the end of the apocalyptic threats of the Cold War… — Arthur Demarest Copy Share Image
Totalitarianism extends to whatever touches it...psychological technique, as it operates in the army or in a great industrial plant, entails a direct… — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
“We wrap up our violent and mysterious world in a pretense of understanding. We paper over the voids of our comprehension with… — Mark Lawrence Copy Share Image
“The most obvious and the most distinctive features of the History of Civilisation, during the last fifty years, is the wonderful increase… — Thomas Henry Huxley Copy Share Image
The world in the past has been ruled by force, and man has dominated over woman by reason of his more forceful… — Abdu'l-Bahá Copy Share Image
Civilization involves subjection of force to reason, and the agency of this subjection is law. — Roscoe Pound Copy Share Image
If the Earth gets hit by an asteroid, it's game over. It's control-alt-delete for civilization. — Bill Nye Copy Share Image
The instrument of expansion of Classical civilization was a social organization, slavery. — Carroll Quigley 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
Only world law can assure progress towards a civilized peaceful community. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
