Modern civilization has no understanding of sacred matters. Everything is backwards. — Thomas Yellowtail Copy Share Image
Civilization is the lamb's skin in which barbarism masquerades. — Thomas Bailey Aldrich Copy Share Image
No civilization other than that which is Christian, is worth seeking or possessing. — Otto von Bismarck 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
My body really, really wanted to reproduce when I was 15. It took a lot of civilization, socialization, willpower and some emulsion… — Penn Jillette Copy Share Image
We have before us the glorious opportunity to inject a new dimension of love into the veins of our civilization. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Geosynchronous spacecraft will be among civilization's most enduring remnants, quietly circling Earth until the Earth is no more. — Trevor Paglen Copy Share Image
A period of high civilization is one in which thoughts fly freely from mind to mind, from one country to another-yes, from… — Gilbert Highet Copy Share Image
I trust the time is nigh when, with the universal assent of civilized people, all international differences shall be determined without resort… — Chester A. Arthur Copy Share Image
No matter where we are or how advanced we think we are, there are elemental issues of our civilization that stories help… — Christian Camargo Copy Share Image
And here we encounter the seeds of government disaster and collapse - the kind that wrecked ancient Rome and every other civilization… — Barry Goldwater Copy Share Image
Human civilization is not something achieved against nature; it is rather the outcome of the working of the innate qualities of man. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
I fancy it must be the quantity of animal food eaten by the English which renders their character insusceptible to civilization. I… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Every time a new nation, America or Russia for instance, advances toward civilization, the human race perfects itself; every time an inferior… — Madame de Stael Copy Share Image
We have seen and do see the type of evil that is within human civilization, and the Holocaust took place in European… — Laszlo Nemes Copy Share Image
Twenty centuries of 'progress' have brought the average citizen a vote, a national anthem, a Ford, a bank account, and a high… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
So as long as you can forget your body you are happy and the moment you begin to be aware of your… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Co-operation, like other difficult things, can be learned only by practice: and to be capable of it in great things, a people… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
“Under the rough and ridiculous circumstances of life in the Rocky Mountains there was something exciting and vital, full of rude poetry:… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
A good civilisation spreads over us freely like a tree, varying and yielding because it is alive. A bad civilisation stands up… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Think of this: If it weren’t for greed, intolerance, hate, passion and murder, you would have no works of art, no great… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
The terrorists, they have the wrong perception. They believe that the other group is trying to destroy them as a religion, as… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
But the female mind has demonstrated a capacity for all the mental acquirements and achievements of men, and as generations ensue that… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
As an advocate of birth control I wish to point out that the unbalance between the birth rate of the 'unfit' and… — Margaret Sanger Copy Share Image
Civilization just takes it as a given that the whole world was flooding. Then science came and you had geology and modern… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Our knowledge of the historical worth of certain religious doctrines increases our respect for them, but does not invalidate our proposal that… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
We might as well expect to grow trees from leaves as hope to build up a civilization or a manhood without taking… — Anna Julia Cooper Copy Share Image
“America ... has created a 'civilization' that represents an exact contradiction of the ancient European tradition. It has introduced the religion of… — Julius Evola 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
For you will sorely miss civilization if it is sacrificed in the turbulence of change. — Will Durant Copy Share Image
“The most frightful of all spectacles is the strength of the civilization without its mercy.” — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
“What is the point of having a civilization, if we do not practice being civilized!” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Truth and trust are the means by which civilization holds off barbarism. — Mercedes Lackey Copy Share Image
Every civilization that has ever existed has ultimately collapsed. — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
The inclination to aggression constitutes the greatest impediment to civilization. — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
