“Before civilization, artists painted for the living. Today, most paint for a living.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Civilization is the way one's own people live. Savagery is the way foreigners live. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
No civilization has survived the ongoing destruction of its natural support systems. Nor will ours. — Lester R. Brown Copy Share Image
Civilization has developed executive powers far beyond its understanding. — Maude Meagher Copy Share Image
More than any other time in history, the 1990s will be a turning point for human civilization. — David Suzuki Copy Share Image
If civilization is to survive, it must live on the interest, not the capital, of nature. — Ronald Wright Copy Share Image
The next war... may well bury Western civilization forever. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
English civilization rests largely upon tea and cricket, with mighty spurts of enjoyment on Derby Day, and at Newmarket. — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
The downfall of every civilization comes, not from the moral corruption of the common man, but rather from the moral complacency of… — E. Digby Baltzell Copy Share Image
Clint Eastwood said, the only things America has contributed to civilization are the western and jazz. And I don't think westerns are… — Robert Wyatt Copy Share Image
Before language, cavemen simply grunted, and then they used the club. Communication changed that. It's the mechanism that created civilization and prevents… — Greg Gutfeld Copy Share Image
In the dust where we have buried the silent races and their abominations we have buried so much of the delicate magic… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Play is not for every hour of the day, or for any hour taken at random. There is a tide in the… — Alice Meynell Copy Share Image
Civilization depends upon the vigorous pursuit of the highest values by people who are intelligent enough to know that their values are… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
Who cares about 17-21 year olds? Jack Myers does, and you should, too, if you want a front row seat on where… — Geraldine Laybourne Copy Share Image
One of the most pathetic aspects of human history is that every civilization expresses itself most pretentiously, compounds its partial and universal… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
The central purpose of the Work that Reconnects is to help people uncover and experience their innate connections with each other and… — Joanna Macy Copy Share Image
The family is the engine that drives civilization. Throughout history, those cultures that have failed to found their rules and attitudes of… — Jeremiah Denton Copy Share Image
Western civilization has not yet learned the lesson that the energy we expend in 'getting things done' is less important than the… — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
The developing world can just do things that are extensive or horizontal, that basically copy. The developed world needs to do things… — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
I think we fought Vietnam for the benefits of civilization, and certainly we fought it to oppose authority. To show our authority,… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I had faith in Israel before it was established, I have in it now. I believe it has a glorious future before… — Harry S Truman Copy Share Image
You may have practical ethics and that kind of thing, but there is no spirituality in any aspect of our Western civilization.… — David Kudler Copy Share Image
Geology is part of that remarkable dynamic process of the human mind which is generally called science and to which man is… — Reinout Willem van Bemmelen Copy Share Image
“I believe order is better than chaos, creation better than destruction. I prefer gentleness to violence, forgiveness to vendetta. On the whole… — Kenneth Clark Copy Share Image
Humor has been a fashioning instrument in America, cleaving its way through the national life, holding tenaciously to the spread elements of… — Constance Rourke Copy Share Image
Some of the beliefs and legends bequethed to us by Antquity are so universally and firmly established that we have become accustomed… — Frederick Soddy Copy Share Image
“The privilege of opening the first trial in history for crimes against the peace of the world imposes a grave responsibility. The… — Robert H. Jackson Copy Share Image
We have gone a long way toward civilization and religious tolerance, and we have a good example in this country. Here the… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
Here is one of the fundamental defects of American fiction--perhaps the one character that sets it off sharply from all other known… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
History leaves no doubt that among of the most regrettable crimes committed by human beings have been committed by those human beings… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
The test of civilization is the power of drawing the most benefit out of cities. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
You are an ignorant schoolgirl. You think civilization is a good thing. — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
A savage is simply a human organism that has not received enough news from the human race. — John Ciardi Copy Share Image
The civilized man is a larger mind but a more imperfect nature than the savage. — Margaret Fuller Copy Share Image
“Civilsation is the sleight of hand that conceals our natures from ourselves.” — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Whatever fosters the growth of civilization works at the same time against war. — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
