“Poets write beautiful words to describe savagery-wrapped civilization nowadays.” — Toba Beta Copy Share Image
“Being a noninvasive advanced civilization was the biggest mistake of Batak Kingdom.” — Toba Beta Copy Share Image
The glossy surface of our civilization hides a real intellectual decadence. — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
I think the first prerequisite to civilization is an ability to make polite conversation. — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
“Civilization is faces, "appearances": when these collapse, civilization collapses as well.” — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
“The Message of Mohammad is not a set of metaphysical phenomena. It is a complete civilization.” — W.A.R. Gibb Copy Share Image
This civilization is rapidly passing away, however. Let us rejoice or else lament the fact as much as everyone of us likes;… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I don't want to compare my city to Zurich; thank God we're not that boring. Rio is advancing fast, but we're at… — Eduardo Paes Copy Share Image
The photograph [of Che Guevara], for a civilization now accustomed to thinking in images, was not the description of a single event...… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“When people stargazing, they stare at stars, and many other things which they've already presumed commonly and universally as stars.” — Toba Beta [Betelgeuse Incident Copy Share Image
The city has become a serious menace to our civilization It has a peculiar attraction for the immigrant. — Josiah Strong Copy Share Image
The exact measure of the progress of civilization is the degree in which the intelligence of the common mind has prevailed over… — George Bancroft Copy Share Image
That's what History teaches us, I think, that life goes on, even though individuals die and whole civilizations crumble away: The simple… — Philip Reeve Copy Share Image
We can see quite plainly that our present civilization is built on the exploitation of animals, just as past civilisations were built… — Donald Watson Copy Share Image
There is one common condition for the lot of women in Western civilization and all other civilizations that we know about for… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
I should be able to express moral views on social issues - especially those that have been the underpinning of Western civilization… — Kirk Cameron Copy Share Image
The story of the decadence of the cathedral as a moral power, a spiritual energizer in civilization, is the sad but inevitable… — Jenkin Lloyd Jones Copy Share Image
[A]nother important difference between tourist and traveler is that the former accepts his own civilization without question; not so the traveler, who… — Paul Bowles Copy Share Image
I'm thinking about the end of civilization. We may not keep growing like we are now. There must be an end of… — Hiroshi Sugimoto Copy Share Image
Culture is the name for what people are interested in, their thoughts, their models, the books they read and the speeches they… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
Road racing imitates life, the way it would be without the corruptive influence of civilization. When you see an enemy lying on… — Tim Krabbe Copy Share Image
The best defence [for a democracy, for the public good] is aggressiveness, the aggressiveness of the involved citizen. We need to reassert… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
Probably no one of us has the True Religion. But all of us together - if we are allowed to be free… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations, cultures, arts, civilizations - these are mortal, and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The philosophy of love and peace strangely overlooked who was in possession of the guns. There had been love and peace for… — Bessie Head Copy Share Image
Every problem that the country faces is being solved in some community by some group or some individual. The question is how… — George H. W. Bush Copy Share Image
“The hardest part about being back in the human world was relearning emotion. Everything a wolf does has a practical, simple reason.… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“Narrative, in short. is more than literature, it is the way we understand our lives. If literature merely supplied entertainment, then it… — Robert N. Bellah Copy Share Image
And this is the ultimate lesson that our knowledge of the mode of transmission of typhus has taught us: Man carries on… — Charles Nicolle Copy Share Image
At the bidding of a Peter the Hermit millions of men hurled themselves against the East; the words of an hallucinated enthusiast… — Gustave Le Bon Copy Share Image
Death has always been the first sign of European civilization when introduced in the Pacific. — Jose Rizal Copy Share Image
The separation of sex from emotion is at the very foundations of Western culture and civilization. — Shulamith Firestone Copy Share Image
Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men. — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work. — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
In the very end, civilizations perish because they listen to their politicians and not to their poets. — Jonas Mekas Copy Share Image
Christianity and Western civilization-what countless crimes have been committed in thy name! — Ngugi wa Thiong'o Copy Share Image
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