Civilizations can only be understood by those who are civilized. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
“This civilization is the impact of the world's consumption behavior.” — Toba Beta [Betelgeuse Incident Copy Share Image
“Civilization is the ability to share what makes us similar in the respect of what makes us different.” — Dario de Judicibus Copy Share Image
War is one of the constants of history, and it has not diminished with civilization or democracy. — Will Durant Copy Share Image
The Lincoln Memorial is related to the toga and the civilization that wore it. — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
New York... when civilization falls apart, remember, we were way ahead of you. — David Letterman Copy Share Image
That which we call civilization is merely the accumulated debris of a chilling number of bad nights. — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
The essential characteristic of Western civilization that distinguishes it from the arrested and petrified civilizations of the East was and is its… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
“a single generation enamoured of foreign ways is almost enough in history to risk the whole continuity of civilization and learning.” — Sister Nivedita Copy Share Image
The Russian people and Russian culture are the linchpin, the glue that binds together this unique civilization. — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
The internet, our greatest tool of emancipation, has been transformed into the most dangerous facilitator of totalitarianism we have ever seen. The… — Julian Assange Copy Share Image
It is the beauty of women, and the fact that they are the focus, that they are sex objects in a positive… — Hugh Hefner Copy Share Image
Nations are possessed with an insane ambition to perpetuate the memory of themselves by the amount of hammered stone they leave. What… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Consider the wheelbarrow. It may lack the grace of an airplane, the speed of an automobile, the initial capacity of a freight… — Hal Borland Copy Share Image
In an automobile civilization, which was one of constant motion and activity, there was almost no time to think; in a television… — Louis Kronenberger Copy Share Image
I think there's a general sense that the belief structures that existed and carried civilization forward have weakened to the point where… — James Toback Copy Share Image
To travel is to discover that everybody is wrong. The philosophies, the civilizations which seem, at a distance, so superior to those… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
If we believe in the rebirth of our civilization... then clearly this renaissance must begin in the chambers of our own hearts...… — Georg Feuerstein Copy Share Image
One cannot deny that in former times man's life had been one of toil and hardship. It is correct to say, therefore,… — Haile Selassie Copy Share Image
There was a land of Cavaliers and Cotton Fields called the Old South. Here in this pretty world, Gallantry took its last… — Ben Hecht Copy Share Image
It is not the child as a physical but as a psychic being that can provide a strong impetus to the betterment… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
How carelessly imperial power vivisected ancient civilizations. Palestine and Kashmir are imperial Britain's festering, blood-drenched gifts to the modem world. Both are… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
“We have barely emerged from centuries of barbarism. It's not a surprise that there are shocking inequities in this world. It is… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“...But the Mahommedan religion increases, instead of lessening, the fury of intolerance. It was originally propagated by the sword, and ever since,… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
“The technologies which have had the most profound effects on human life are usually simple. A good example of a simple technology… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
It is a simple matter to see the obvious, to do the expected. The tendency of the individual life is to be… — Jack London Copy Share Image
“London was but a foretaste of this nomadic civilization which is altering human nature so profoundly, and throws upon personal relations a… — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
The capacity for friendship usually goes with highly developed civilizations. The ability to cultivate people differs by culture and class; but on… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
In Globetrotter, David Albahari explores the consciousness of emigres from the former Yugoslavia, Croatia and Serbia, showing that while abroad, many of… — Josip Novakovich Copy Share Image
“I think that in all descriptions of the good life here on earth we must assume a certain basis of animal vitality… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Taking the continent as a whole, this religious tension may be responsible for the revival of the commonest racial feeling. Africa is… — Frantz Fanon Copy Share Image
Civilization runs a greater risk if we maintain our present attitude to religion than if we give it up. — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
“America's civilization perturbs the trajectories of all other civilizations just by existing.” — Walter A. McDougall Copy Share Image
A tablecloth restaurant is still one of the great rewards of civilization. — Harry Golden Copy Share Image
Civilization is like a thin layer of ice upon a deep ocean of chaos and darkness. — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
But that's just the aim of civilization - to make everything a source of enjoyment. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Civilization did not come with fire. It came with the discovery of how to use fire to heat water. — Laura Anne Gilman Copy Share Image
