Without civilization, we would not turn into animals, but vegetables. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Women will ignore precedent and startle civilization with their progress. — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization. — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
If youth were not ignorant and timid, civilization would be impossible. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
“In the last stage of civilization, Poetry, Religion, and Philosophy will be one.” — Thoreau Copy Share Image
Induction makes you feel guilty for getting something out of nothing, and it is artificial, but it is one of the greatest… — Herbert Wilf Copy Share Image
The refusal of the British and Russian peoples to accept what appeared to be inevitable defeat was the great factor in the… — George C. Marshall Copy Share Image
“The constant tug between nature and civilization is what keeps on our toes. Though of course, that did rather beg the question… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
I would be very ashamed of my civilization if we did not try to find out if there is life in outer… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“Review history, visionaries advanced our civilization. Without them, we'd have been still in a barbaric and chaotic world. Thank you!!!” — Assegid Habtewold Copy Share Image
The fact is, that civilization requires slaves. Human slavery is wrong, insecure, and demoralizing. On mechanical slavery, on the slavery of the… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The love of domination and an uncontrolled lust of arbitrary power have prevailed among all nations and perhaps in proportion to the… — Mercy Otis Warren Copy Share Image
In most major cities, you can find stores for urban homesteaders. They sell everything you need so that you won't need anything.… — W. Kamau Bell Copy Share Image
Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. They… — Barbara W Tuchman Copy Share Image
Economics must not be relegated to classrooms and statistical offices and must not be left to esoteric circles. It is the philosophy… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
“It oughtn't to need a war to make us talk to each other in buses, and invent our own amusements in the… — Jan Struther Copy Share Image
I didn't go to bookshops to buy. That's a little bourgeois. I went because they were civilized places. It made me happy… — Jerry Pinto Copy Share Image
The man who stands upon his own soil, who feels, by the laws of the land in which he lives,-by the laws… — Edward Everett Copy Share Image
At the root of the Noble Savage myth is this basic truth: the savage is good, but he's also violent. This is… — Bruno Dumont Copy Share Image
I refuse to accept that Western civilization is like some hopeless old version of Microsoft DOS, doomed to freeze, then crash. I… — Niall Ferguson Copy Share Image
Thoughtful men must feel that the fate of civilization upon this continent is involved in the issue of our contest. Among the… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
As we enter the 21st Century it is clear that we have entered an unprecedented global age in which our diverse cultures,… — Ashok Gangadean Copy Share Image
I think that the global consciousness concerning all those elements that produce tension, fractions of societies, is changing in the sense that… — Gilberto Gil Copy Share Image
The American city should be a collection of communities where every member has a right to belong. It should be a place… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
“NINETEENTH-CENTURY AUTHORS TENDED TO INTERPRET history as a progression from savagery to civilization. Key hallmarks of this transition included the development of… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
“It’s sometimes argued that there’s no real progress; that a civilization that kills multitudes in mass warfare, that pollutes the land and… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
It is the lawyers who run our civilization for us -- our governments, our business, our private lives. Most legislators are lawyers;… — Fred Rodell Copy Share Image
“Swords, Lances, arrows, machine guns, and even high explosives have had far less power over the fates of nations than the typhus… — Hans Zinsser Copy Share Image
Before we invented civilization our ancestors lived mainly in the open out under the sky. Before we devised artificial lights and atmospheric… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“Common man's patience will bring him more happiness than common man's power.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
Civilization survives on the constant discovery of amity and an equal supply of damnation. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
There is no hope for a civilization which starts each day to the sound of an alarm clock. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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
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