Modern civilization has no understanding of sacred matters. Everything is backwards. — Thomas Yellowtail 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
Everything we have of value as human beings - as a civilization - is the result of our intelligence. — Stuart J. Russell 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
No civilization has a monopoly on tolerance; each is capable of bigotry. — Amitava Kumar Copy Share Image
The women of Afghanistan, left behind as their men fought, did what the women of World War II did - used their… — Tina Brown Copy Share Image
“Civilization is unnatural. It is a whim of circumstance. And barbarism must always ultimately triumph.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is a disturbing fact that Western civilization, which claims to have achieved the highest standard of health in history, finds itself… — Rene Dubos Copy Share Image
Life cannot be calculated. That's the big mistake our civilization made. We never accepted that randomness is not a mistake in the… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Our flag is a proud flag, and it stands for liberty and civilization. Where it has once floated, there must be no… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Underlying the whole scheme of civilization is the confidence men have in each other, confidence in their integrity, confidence in their honesty,… — William Bourke Cockran Copy Share Image
I see little more important to the future of our country and our civilization than the full recognition of the place of… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
“What history gives us leaves upon us, on the contrary, the impression of decadence rather than of an advancing civilization.” — Herman Bavinck Copy Share Image
Which is superior, the Constitution or Sharia law? In Sharia law by their teachings is superior to everything else, it replaces everything… — Steve King Copy Share Image
If, to expose the fraud and imposition of monarchy . . . to promote universal peace, civilization, and commerce, and to break… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“Civilization is about removing information about our surroundings; discarding information about nature so our senses are not burdened with all that information… — Tor Norretranders Copy Share Image
Syria is the proud heir of an ancient civilization that has a unique spectrum of minorities that encompasses Muslims and Christians of… — Ahmed H. Zewail Copy Share Image
All the wonders of the Greek civilization heaped together are less wonderful than the single book of Psalms. Greece had all that… — William E. Gladstone Copy Share Image
To be sure, the story of Hurricane Katrina does have a moral for anyone not deliberately blind. The races are different. Blacks… — Jared Taylor Copy Share Image
That which men suppose the imagination to be, and to do, is often frivolous enough and mischievous enough; but that which God… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Civilization is a stream with banks. The stream is sometimes filled with blood from people killing, stealing, shouting and doing the things… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
“Civilization is complex. It involves the existence of human communities characterized by political and social organization; dominating and utilizing natural forces; adapting… — Frank L. DeSilva Copy Share Image
In many of the more relaxed civilizations on the Outer Eastern Rim of the Galaxy, the Hitch-Hiker's Guide has already supplanted the… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
A man-made thing that produces pleasure (and criticism) by somehow taping into the order of the universe is beautiful. Making beautiful things… — Tucker Viemeister Copy Share Image
Peace is the most covetable possession on the earth. It is the greatest treasure in all the universe. Peace is the most… — Sivananda Copy Share Image
We're living in a funny world kid, a peculiar civilization. The police are playing crooks in it, and the crooks are doing… — Jim Thompson Copy Share Image
Ugliness, squalor are breeding grounds for revolution. Beauty is conducive to tranquillity, happiness. Beautifying of homes and places of worship began with… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
...What is at stake is civilization and humanity, nothing less. The idea that everything is permitted, as Nietzsche put it, rests on… — Irving Kristol Copy Share Image
In every civilization, life grows easier. Men grow lazier in consequence. We have a picture of what happened to the individual Greek.… — Edith Hamilton 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
Is a planetary surface the right place for an expanding technological civilization? — Gerard K. O'Neill Copy Share Image
Arts are a luxury, proof that a civilization has risen above 'politics and war.' — Nell Scovell Copy Share Image
I have always believed that technology drives human civilization's endeavor and progress. — Mukesh Ambani Copy Share Image
