I am but a seed planted into a corrupted garden watered by the tears of civilization. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself within” — Will Durant Copy Share Image
The freedom of speech is an important yardstick for a society's level of civilization. — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
If any civilization is to survive, it is the morality of altruism that men have to reject. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
A new civilization is emerging in our lives, and blind men everywhere are trying to suppress it. — Alvin Toffler Copy Share Image
It's just a show. It's not the end of Western Civilization. It's chewing gum. — Jerry Springer Copy Share Image
Interlibrary loans are a wonder of the world and a glory of civilization. — Jo Walton Copy Share Image
“It combined corrupt simplicity with delicate ferocity, a curious variety of civilization; a tiger with a simper.” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“looking back, I think we could have focused less on the Persian threat and more on the religious strife within our own… — Lindsey Fairleigh Copy Share Image
In the end, what brings civilizations down is when the elites lose confidence in the rightness of their cause. — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
What could I do but go with them Civil War soldiers, or work for them and my country? The patriot blood of… — Clara Barton Copy Share Image
From the days of Weishaupt to those of Karl Marx... this world-wide conspiracy for the overthrow of civilization and for the reconstitution… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Because our civilization is woven of so many diverse strands, the ideas which any one group accepts will be found to contain… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Civilization, to be worthy of the name, must afford other methods of settling human differences than those of blood letting. — Ralph Chaplin Copy Share Image
“Babies who have not yet been taught to speak any language are the only race of the earth, the race of man:… — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
How sad that men would base an entire civilization on the principle of paternity, upon the legal owership and presumed responsibility for… — Phyllis Chesler Copy Share Image
While I have no empirical evidence to back this up, I bet that the number of homosexual people per thousand has not… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
Without books the development of civilization would have been impossible. They are the engines of change, windows on the world, "Lighthouses" as… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Another success is the post-office, with its educating energy augmented by cheapness and guarded by a certain religious sentimentin mankind; so that… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
America became a great civilization thanks to a culture based on the value of having to earn almost everything an American got… — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
If you will protest courageously, and yet with dignity and Christian love, when the history books are written in future generations, the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for education. Probably, no nation is… — Abraham Flexner Copy Share Image
We will never get great art from women if their education exposes them only to the second-rate and if the idea of… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
“Civilization was a dance, and the ancient Wyr were late to the ball. They donned masks and slipped with silent predatory grace… — Thea Harrison Copy Share Image
The provision of health care facilities must be accepted as a social responsibility. It is not that an individual who has the… — Toh Chin Chye Copy Share Image
Our civilization is locked in the grip of an ideology - corporatism. An ideology that denies and undermines the legitimacy of individuals… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
I say that almost everywhere there is beauty enough to fill a person's life if one would only be sensitive to it.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Civilization – and by this I do not mean talking cinemas and tinned food, nor even surgery and hygienic houses, but the… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
“After weaning the indigenous people's of Egypt: 'from their miserable and barbarous manners, [Osiris] taught them how to till the earth, and… — Graham Hancock Copy Share Image
“Civilization is social order promoting cultural creation. Four elements constitute it: economic provision, political organization, moral tradition, and the pursuit of knowledge… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
I believe with all my heart that civilization has produced nothing finer than a man or woman who thinks and practices true… — Frank Knox Copy Share Image
I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Surely the only sound foundation for a civilization is a sound state of mind. — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
“(When asked what he thought of Western civilization): 'I think it would be a good idea.” — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“Civilisation, after all, is defined by what we forbid, more than what we permit.” — Gregory David Roberts Copy Share Image
I think God's going to come down and pull civilization over for speeding. — Steven Wright Copy Share Image
The charms of seclusion are seldom combined with the conveniences of civilization. — Ethel Smyth Copy Share Image
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