The real triumph of civilization is the extent to which coercion is banished from human relations. — Anthony Gregory Copy Share Image
“...my civilization is not even skin deep - it does not go deeper than my clothes.” — Edgar Rice Burroughs Copy Share Image
“A civilization must be judged by its standards not by its expenditure.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Every civilization finds it necessary to negotiate compromises with its own values. — Golda Meir Copy Share Image
Preach the blessings of our deeply incorporated civilization by the mouths of our eight-inch guns. — William Dean Howells Copy Share Image
The slaves of developed industrial civilization are sublimated slaves. — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
The only true hope for civilization-the conviction of the individual that his inner life can affect outward events and that, whether or… — Stephen Spender Copy Share Image
If human civilization is going to invade the waters of the earth, then let it be first of all to carry a… — Jacques Yves Cousteau Copy Share Image
Civilization as we know it will come to an end sometime in this century unless we can find a way to live… — David Goodstein Copy Share Image
No civilization is complete which does not include the dumb and defenseless of God's creatures within the sphere of charity and mercy. — Queen Victoria Copy Share Image
“Primary purposes of a mirror: (1) To help civilized men realize their imperfections, and, (2) To help the imperfect hide their imperfections.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Civilization is so hard on the body that some have called it a disease, despite the arts that keep puny bodies alive… — G. Stanley Hall Copy Share Image
Even on the most solemn occasions I got away without wearing socks and hid that lack of civilization in high boots — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The very essence of our civilization is that we give a paramount place to morality in all our affairs, public or private. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Had the Hebrews not been disturbed in their progress a thousand and more years ago, they would have solved all the great… — Isaac Mayer Wise Copy Share Image
I have tried to answer the question which sent me to Samoa: Are the disturbances which vex our adolescents due to the… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Money is the most important subject intellectual persons can investigate and reflect upon. It is so important that our present civilization may… — Robert W. Hemphill Copy Share Image
Without security, civilization is cramped and dwarfed. Without security, there can be no freedom. Nor shall I say too much, when I… — Charles Sumner Copy Share Image
One way in which all of us can help to combat the current wave of public indecency which threatens to undermine Western… — Grace Kelly Copy Share Image
If we lose the virile, manly qualities, and sink into a nation of mere hucksters, putting gain over national honor, and subordinating… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
In the same way that banks succeeded at privatizing the profits and socializing the losses as they led the global economy to… — Felix Dodds Copy Share Image
Several years ago, when I was about to start a novel, I thought I might get some mileage out of the idea… — Octavia E. Butler Copy Share Image
Madness in Civilization is a brilliant, provocative, and hugely entertaining history of the treatment and mistreatment of the mentally ill. Packed with… — Dirk Wittenborn Copy Share Image
“By the time of the arrival of Islam in the early seventeenth century CE, what we now call the Middle East was… — Jim Al-Khalili Copy Share Image
The silence of landscape conceals vast presence. Place is not simply location. A place is a profound individuality. With complete attention, landscape… — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
In his scientific genius, man has wrought material miracles and has transformed his world. He has harnassed nature and has developed great… — Ralph Bunche Copy Share Image
Yes. They are the words that finally turned me into the hermit I have now become. It was quite sudden. I saw… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“There are few words which are used more loosely than the word “Civilization.” What does it mean? It means a society based… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
There is a strong conservative instinct in the average man or woman, born of the hereditary fear of life, that prompts them… — Gertrude Atherton Copy Share Image
Americans cannot comprehend how their fellow countrymen could not love their country. But the left's anti-Americanism is intrinsic to their entire worldview.… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
Civilizations should be measured by the degree of diversity attained and the degree of unity retained. — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
“He realized that the ritualized world he had dismissed as feminine was in fact civilization.” — G Willow Wilson Copy Share Image
“Women might just have something to contribute to civilization other than their vaginas".” — Christopher Buckley Copy Share Image
Civilization had too many rules for me, so I did my best to rewrite them. — Bill Cosby Copy Share Image
Machinery is the chief symbol of modern civilization; it represents a great sin. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
