The Christian theory of the sacredness of the Bible has been at the cost of the world's civilization. — Matilda Joslyn Gage Copy Share Image
The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“the whole purpose of civilization is to take the surprises out of life, so one can be bored to death” — Murray Leinster Copy Share Image
An odd thing occurs in the minds of Americans when Indian civilization in mentioned: little or nothing. — Paula Gunn Allen Copy Share Image
“She suspected that civilization had been invented to make more stories. And” — Gardner R. Dozois Copy Share Image
“Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessaries.” — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
There can be no high civilization where there is not ample leisure. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
There is a single thread of attitude, a single direction of flow, that joins our present time to it's early burgeoning in… — Arthur Erickson Copy Share Image
Civilisation makes us all as alike as peas in a pod, and it is the very uncouth - uncivilised, if you will… — Alec-Tweedie Copy Share Image
It is not possible for civilization to flow backwards while there is youth in the world. Youth may be headstrong, but it… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
OYSTER, n. A slimy, gobby shellfish which civilization gives men the hardihood to eat without removing its entrails! The shells are sometimes… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
It's too hard a life for me. I could only do it - check out in that sense - if I checked… — Derek Jacobi Copy Share Image
To be individually righteous is the first of all duties, come what may to ones self, to one's country, to society, and… — Joseph Wood Krutch Copy Share Image
It seems to me the mark of a civilized society that certain privileges should be taken for granted such as education, health… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
Is it not a grotesque civilization which sends missionaries across the sea to save the souls of the heathen, and yet permits… — Edwin Markham Copy Share Image
Civilization consists in giving something an unfitting name, then dream about the result. And indeed the false name and the real dream… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
I encourage all of you to discover ever more fully in the Eucharist, the sacrament of Christ's sacrificial love, the inspiration and… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Civilization is that mode of conduct which points out to man the path of duty. Performance of duty and observance of morality… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
A commonplace of political rhetoric has it that the quality of a civilization may be measured by how it cares for its… — Daniel Patrick Moynihan Copy Share Image
American cultural institutions seem so bent on preserving the values of "Western civilization," the mythical "Whitetown," that welearn about one another's cultures… — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
Unity in diversity is the highest possible attainment of a civilization, a testimony to the most noble possibilities of the human race.… — Michael Novak Copy Share Image
The people of the United States have been fortunate in many things. One of the things in which we have been most… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
The invention of gunpowder and the constant improvement of firearms are enough in themselves to show that the advance of civilization has… — Carl von Clausewitz Copy Share Image
When I say that terrorism is war against civilization, I may be met by the objection that terrorists are often idealists pursuing… — Benjamin Netanyahu Copy Share Image
“Extreme civilization robs crime of its frightful poetry, and prevents the writer from restoring it. That would be too dreadful, say those… — Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly Copy Share Image
“Religious fundamentalism advocates homophobia, misogyny, xenophobia, polygamy and many other primitive evils. Can you imagine, somebody telling you, your love for your… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Once, headed uptown on the 9 train, I noticed a sign posted by the Metropolitan Transit Authority advising subway riders who might… — Sarah Vowell Copy Share Image
Imagination has given us the steam engine, the telephone, the talking-machine, and the automobile, for these things had to be dreamed of… — L. Frank Baum Copy Share Image
A tree is beautiful, but what's more, it has a right to life; like water, the sun and the stars, it is… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Ultimate freedom. An extremist. An aesthetic voyager whose home is the road. Escaped from Atlanta. Thou shalt not return, 'cause “the West… — Christopher McCandless Copy Share Image
The coarsening of our culture towards violent death has more consequences than war. Tragically, this same culture has led to the death… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
The worlds civilization started from the day on which everyone received reward for labour. — Andrew Carnegie Copy Share Image
Civilization is nothing else but the attempt to reduce force to being the last resort. — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
The Filipino embraces civilization and lives and thrives in every clime, in contact with every people. — Jose Rizal Copy Share Image
“And what is civilization if it ain't people talking over a goddamned beer?” — James S.A. Corey Copy Share Image
