Human rights is a universal standard. It is a component of every religion and every civilization. — Shirin Ebadi Copy Share Image
All that is great in man comes through work; and civilization is its product. — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
From first to last the civilization of America has been bound up with its physical environment. — Ellsworth Huntington Copy Share Image
Whatever fosters militarism makes for barbarism; whatever fosters peace makes for civilization. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
The history of civilization could actually be written in terms of the level of its women. — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
Forests precede civilizations and deserts follow them. — François-René de Chateaubriand Copy Share Image
The press, watchful with more than the hundred eyes of Argus, strong with more than the hundred arms of Briareus, not only… — Charles Sumner Copy Share Image
The freedom enjoyed in Western society under the rule of law and constitutional government explains both the quality of its civilization and… — Paul Johnson Copy Share Image
There has never been but one question in all civilization-how to keep a few men from saying to many men: You work… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
“Civilization is in fact the longest story of all. Civilization can persist through a series of economies.” — Fernand Braudel Copy Share Image
What most people don't seem to realize is that there is just as much money to be made out of the wreckage… — Margaret Mitchell Copy Share Image
“The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a… — Antonio Gramsci Copy Share Image
“All definitions of civilization along to a conjugation which goes: "I am civilized, you belong to a culture, he is a barbarian.” — Felipe Fernández-Armesto Copy Share Image
Without memory, there is no culture. Without memory, there would be no civilization, no society, no future. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
“The "west"-what curse has fallen upon it that at the term of its trajectory it produces only these businessmen, these shopkeepers, these… — Emil Cioran Copy Share Image
We should be active leaders in the fight for civil liberties which adequately reflect present social realities. Furthermore the left as a… — Joseph Muscat Copy Share Image
Everywhere we are told that our human resources are all to be used, that our civilization itself means the uses of everything… — Muriel Rukeyser Copy Share Image
We must open our eyes and see that modern civilization has become so complex and the lives of civilized men so interwoven… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
If civilization is in danger today... it will do so with the enthusiastic assistance of credulous people. They seem to me more… — Anatoly Kuznetsov Copy Share Image
Now, whereas we do not find it hard to accept the beauty of a flower for itself alone, in present-day, mechanical-industrial civilization,… — Paul Outerbridge Copy Share Image
“On why 300 years separates the first use of glass lenses in spectacles and their use in a telescope: “In many cases… — James Burke Copy Share Image
If it had not been for the discontent of a few fellows who had not been satisfied with their conditions, you would… — Eugene V. Debs Copy Share Image
If civilization is to survive, the principles of the Prince of Peace must be restored. Shattered trust between nations must be revived.… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The enthronement of Christ over the minds of men is steadily going forward. His kingdom embraces the princes in the realm of… — Edward Thomson Copy Share Image
“Many lessons can be learned from the history of Western civilization, but one of them is especially clear. Lack of involvement in… — Jackson Spielvogel Copy Share Image
Civilization has taught man how to live in dense crowds, and by that very fact those crowds are likely ultimately to constitute… — Charles Galton Darwin Copy Share Image
“Berossos compiled his History from the temple archives of Babylon (reputed to have contained "public records" that had been preserved for "over… — Graham Hancock Copy Share Image
The great ideas of the West - rationalism, self-criticism, the disinterested search for truth, the separation of church and state, the rule… — Ibn Warraq Copy Share Image
Who are we? Where do we come from? Why are we this way and not some other? What does it mean to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Closing the dictionary and opening any history of civilizations, the curious reader might consider the characteristics of societies in decay. At the… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
Gay people are not in the habit of thinking of ourselves as leading our civilization, and yet we do. — Judy Grahn Copy Share Image
Extremes produce reaction. Beware that our boasted civilization does not lapse into barbarism. — Antoine Rivarol Copy Share Image
“In a blind pursuit of endless revenue, we've confused inflation with civilization.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
We argue with our biology, and the result of that argument is civilization. — Charles Siebert Copy Share Image
No civilization on the brink of collapse has ever changed fast enough to avert collapse. — Joel Salatin Copy Share Image
A decadent civilization compromises with its disease, cherishes the virus infecting it, loses its self-respect. — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
I have no doubt that historians will conclude that we of the twentieth century had intelligence enough to create a great civilization… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
I think in our desire to create a better America,we have to have civilized debate in this country and not just yelling. — Craig Ferguson Copy Share Image
