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
People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization. — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
Women will ignore precedent and startle civilization with their progress. — Nikola Tesla 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
Because the Western civilization is dominated by dualistic thinking, holistic scientists and philosophers don't get the recognition they deserve. — Satish Kumar Copy Share Image
The African tribesman, with his complete contempt for truth and his emphasis on brutality and savagery for others but not for himself,… — L. Ron Hubbard Copy Share Image
It is Hell, of course, that makes priests powerful, not Heaven, for after thousands of years of so-called civilization fear remains the… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
In China's thousands of years of civilization, the conflict between humankind and nature has never been as serious as it is today. — Zhou Shengxian Copy Share Image
One of the effects of civilization is to diminish the rigour of the application of the law of natural selection. It preserves… — Francis Galton Copy Share Image
This extraordinary metal, the soul of every manufacture, and the mainspring perhaps of civilised society. Of iron. — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
We will never be an advanced civilization as long as rain showers can delay the launching of a space rocket. — George Carlin Copy Share Image
Theory of the true civilization. It is not to be found in gas or steam or table turning. It consists in the… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
The greatest threat to mankind and civilization is the spread of the totalitarian philosophy. Its best ally is not the devotion of… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
But the further step, by means of which a civilization is given its quality or culture, is only attained by a process… — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
It is taboo in our society to criticize a persons religious faith... these taboos are offensive, deeply unreasonable, but worse than that,… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“[Referring to the imprisonment of Oscar Wilde] ... Will civilization never reach humane ideals? Will men always punish most severely the sins… — Frank Harris Copy Share Image
Change no man’s religion, change no man’s politics, interrupt the sovereignty of no nation. Instead, teach Man to use what he has… — L. Ron Hubbard Copy Share Image
During the reign of Rameses III (the Twentieth Dynasty) Egypt saw a flowering of its civilization and the harp became the royal… — Corinne Heline Copy Share Image
We all flow from one fountain- Soul. All are expressions of one love. God does not appear, and flow out, only from… — John Muir Copy Share Image
To view an object in the proper light we must stand away from it. The study of the classical literatures gives the… — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share Image
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“Then to give the kids a historical perspective, Chacko told them about the earth woman. He made them imagine that the earth… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Ideas about a person's place in society, his role, lifestyle, and ego qualities will lose their hold as the cohesive forces in… — Peter J. Carroll Copy Share Image
Even in an advanced stage of civilization, there is always a tendency to prefer those parts of literature which favor ancient prejudices,… — Henry Thomas Buckle Copy Share Image
We are now faced with the fact, my friends, that tomorrow is today. We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now.… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
“When distinction of any kind, even intellectual distinction, is somehow resented as a betrayal of the American spirit of equal opportunity for… — Harold Edmund Stearns Copy Share Image
Prior to the advent of the civilization of the Third Estate (mercantilism, capitalism), the social ethics that was religiously sanctioned in the… — Julius Evola Copy Share Image
“One of the problems with all of this is that not all narratives are equal. Imagine, to take a silly example, that… — Derrick Jensen 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
Surely the only sound foundation for a civilization is a sound state of mind. — E. M. Forster 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
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