Paper is at the center of so many of the elements of the development of civilization. — Mark Kurlansky Copy Share Image
The measure of a civilization is in the courage, not of its soldiers, but of its bystanders. — Jack McDevitt Copy Share Image
Please, never despise the translator. He's the mailman of human civilization. — Alexander Pushkin Copy Share Image
“The more we humanize the society, the more we will become humans.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
The world is ruled, and the destiny of civilization is established, by the human emotions. — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
There is no salvation for us but to adopt Civilization and lift ourselves down to its level. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
When the survival strategy of a civilization is invalidated, in all of human history none have ever turned back from the brink. — Daniel Suarez Copy Share Image
“And here was the moment. The end of it all, for civilization was merely another name for friendship, and friendship was coming… — Iain Pears Copy Share Image
It is the object of learning, not only to satisfy the curiosity and perfect the spirits of ordinary men, but also to… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
We represent the only efficient moral, intellectual and political force capable of saving human civilization. — Lyndon LaRouche Copy Share Image
Slowly, painstakingly, like ants, men would make their paths and civilization and their wars once again, only to have it wash away… — Kiran Desai Copy Share Image
Accommodation to change, the thoughtful pursuit of alternative futures are keys to the survival of civilization and perhaps of the human species. — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
We need to shift from an economic to a humanitarian organizing principle for human civilization. And women, en masse, should be saying… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Civilizations are not remembered by their business people, their bankers or lawyers. They're remembered by the arts. — Eli Broad Copy Share Image
Civilization rests on a set of promises; if the promises are broken too often, the civilization dies, no matter how rich it… — Herbert Copy Share Image
Big bang cosmology is probably as widely believed as has been any theory of the universe in the history of Western civilization.… — Geoffrey Burbidge Copy Share Image
Today Eratosthenes' method [of calculating the circumference of the earth] seems almost banal... yet it is inaccessible to prescientific civilizations, and in… — Lucio Russo Copy Share Image
Concerning [postmodern] ideas, let us not mince words. The ideas are profoundly dangerous. They subvert our civilization by denying that truth is… — George Will Copy Share Image
Civilization is built on a number of ultimate principles... respect for human life, the punishment of crimes against property and persons, the… — Max Nordau Copy Share Image
Conservatives are time-biders. And they understand, as Corey Robin explains in his indispensable book 'The Reactionary Mind,' that the direction of human… — Rick Perlstein Copy Share Image
The spirit of man is more important than mere physical strength, and the spiritual fiber of a nation than its wealth. The… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
Of the gladdest moments in human life, methinks, is the departure upon a distant journey into unknown lands. Shaking off with one… — Richard Francis Burton Copy Share Image
Perhaps, some day, humanity can start afresh, a new world, a tabula rasa, a world with a mind without prior experiences. No… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It has been the White Race who has been the world builder, the maker of cities and commerce and continents. It is… — Ben Klassen Copy Share Image
I don't believe that it's inconsistent to be suspicious of people and also be totally comfortable with deploying the technology, because you… — Cody Wilson Copy Share Image
When we affect to condemn savages, we should remember that by doing so we asperse our own progenitors; for they were savages… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Rebellion against technology and civilization is real rebellion, a real attack on the values of the existing system. But the green anarchists,… — Theodore Kaczynski Copy Share Image
“By the middle twentieth century, few European nation-states had not at one time or another figured themselves as 'the outpost of Western… — Neal Ascherson Copy Share Image
Once you get past the grand normative claims made in the West for literature, especially the novel, in the post-Christian era -… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
The teachings of many faiths share much in common. And people of many faiths are united in our commitments to love our… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
Sunday is the core of our civilization, dedicated to thought and reverence. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Civilization was a relentless war that man was doomed to lose eventually.” — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
Through a mix of market forces and regulation, we've brought civilization to the electronic provinces. — Steven Levy Copy Share Image
“Civilization could not be said to have truly ended until there were no restaurants left.” — William Kowalski Copy Share Image
People now know how important it is to build secure systems to underlie our civilization. — Alex Stamos Copy Share Image
All the world's a stage, and all the men and women mearly players. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Wilderness is the raw material out of which man has hammered the artifact called civilization. — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
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