Civilization rests on the fact that most people do the right thing most of the time. — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Machinery is the chief symbol of modern civilization; it represents a great sin. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Civilization had too many rules for me, so I did my best to rewrite them. — Bill Cosby Copy Share Image
I don't believe civilization can do a lot more than educate a person's senses. — Grace Paley Copy Share Image
“...that human hunger birthed the Civ'lize, but human hunger killed it too.” — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
Illusions mistaken for truth are the pavement under our feet. They are what we call civilization. — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Almost as swiftly as he had imagined it, she had torn her clothes off, and when she flung them aside it was… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Without the institution of slavery, civilization would never have been achieved, for no one could ever have done anything intellectual if he… — Jeff Cooper Copy Share Image
And we owe science to the combined energies of individual men of genius, rather than to any tendency to progress inherent in… — Chauncey Wright Copy Share Image
I believe that truth is the glue that holds government together, not only our government, but civilization itself. — Gerald R. Ford Copy Share Image
Man — despite his artistic pretensions, his sophistication, and his many accomplishments — owes his existence to a six inch layer of… — Paul Harvey Copy Share Image
A writer is justly called 'universal' when he is understood within the limits of his civilization, though that be bounded by a… — George Edward Woodberry Copy Share Image
The city is all right. To live in one Is to be civilized, stay up and read Or sing and dance all… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
“Name one civilization led by two people—a pair. It doesn’t happen. Do you know the fastest path to creating enemies? Forge a… — Veronica Rossi Copy Share Image
I believe that truth is the glue that holds government together, not only our Government but civilization itself. That bond, though strained,… — Gerald R. Ford Copy Share Image
Fire, ice, asteroids and pole shifts are bogeymen with which we distract ourselves from the real threat of our time. In an… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Before we can build a stable civilization worthy of humanity as a whole, it is necessary that each historical civilization should become… — Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan Copy Share Image
“And all this is happening in the richest and freest country in the world, and in the middle of the 20th century.… — james baldwin Copy Share Image
To realize life in the abstract as noble or beautiful or humane, to set it forth so with radiance upon it, that… — George Edward Woodberry Copy Share Image
The function of the rebel is to shake the fixated mores of the rigid order of civilization; and this shaking, though painful,… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
Just as liberalism is the main force that drives conservatism and maintains its popularity in some quarters, conservatism is the reason liberalism… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
After all, [female genital mutilation is] a key pillar of institutional misogyny in Islam: its entire purpose is to deny women sexual… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
We have a system which, though far from perfect, is strong with idealism. It gives elbow room for men of all races… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
Will not perhaps the temporal power of Islam return and with it the menace of an armed Mohammedan world, which will shake… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
Agriculture seems to be the first pursuit of civilized man. It enables him to escape from the life of the savage, and… — Edward Everett Copy Share Image
“In order to build a truly wise society devoid of any kind of existential crisis, it is imperative that the individuals foster… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
So-called Western Civilization, as practised in half of Europe, some of Asia and a few parts of North America, is better than… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
“Japhy was considered an eccentric around the campus, which is the usual thing for campuses and college people to think whenever a… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
After man there would be the mighty beetle civilisation, the bodies of whose members the cream of the Great Race would seize… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
“With the coming of spring they would start back to the highlands, their flocks heavy with fat and wool; the caravans loaded… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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