This knowledge, the knowledge that the physical well-being of the citizen is an important foundation for all of the activities of the… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
If, by deferring or maybe even skipping college entirely, students were foregoing their one hope for immersion in Western civilization, there would… — Heather Mac Donald Copy Share Image
In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Freedom!- is the fatuous jingle of our civilization, but only those deprived of it have the barest inkling re: what the stuff… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
It must first be reiterated that with extraordinary few exceptions no educated person in the history of Western Civilization from the third… — Jeffrey Burton Russell Copy Share Image
A banker who is allowed to borrow money at X and loan it out at X plus Y will just go crazy… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
The most striking contradiction of our civilization is the fundamental reverence for truth which we profess and the thorough-going disregard for it… — Vilhjalmur Stefansson Copy Share Image
A man's hope measures his civilization. The attainability of the hope measures, or may measure, the civilization of his nation and time. — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
“We could not be fulfilled if we weren't inauthentic some of the time—inauthentic, that is, in relation to such things as our… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
The highest civilizations -- the longest to last and I believe the most successful in human terms -- are those which have… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
You can judge a civilization by its level of agreement with the green world. When people respect nature, it's a sign of… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Julian Assange is certainly no hero. The man behind WikiLeaks issued threats as if he were Dr. No bent on ending civilization… — Martin Cruz Smith Copy Share Image
We not only speak but think and even dream in words. Language is a mirror in which the whole spiritual development of… — Ernest Klein Copy Share Image
Thousands of years ago, civilizations flourished in Africa which suffer not at all by comparison with those of other continents. In those… — Haile Selassie Copy Share Image
Over the next 20 to 30 years, we are going to end up with world government. It's inevitable... There's going to be… — Jim Garrison Copy Share Image
The United States, and other advanced nations, will someday be able to produce instruments of death so terrible the world will be… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
"Motherboard," for me, has four different levels: the bottom part is the water, vegetation, and growth. The second part is the world… — Ali Banisadr Copy Share Image
“If the Pentateuch is inspired, the civilization of of our day is a mistake and crime. There should be no political liberty.… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Over the long term, the eclipse rate of great civilizations being overtaken is 100%. So you know how it's going to end.… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
There is a cheap literature that speaks to us of the need of escape. It is true that when we travel we… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
“Have you noticed how dogs sniff at one another when they meet? It seems to be their nature. - Yes; it's a… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
Ugliness, squalor are breeding grounds for revolution. Beauty is conducive to tranquillity, happiness. Beautifying of homes and places of worship began with… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
...What is at stake is civilization and humanity, nothing less. The idea that everything is permitted, as Nietzsche put it, rests on… — Irving Kristol Copy Share Image
In every civilization, life grows easier. Men grow lazier in consequence. We have a picture of what happened to the individual Greek.… — Edith Hamilton Copy Share Image
I cannot think that espionage can be recommended as a technique for building an impressive civilization. It's a lout's game. — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
Movies are to our civilization what dreams and ideals are to individual lives: They express the mystery and help define the nature… — Frank Pierson Copy Share Image
The concept of conservation is a far truer sign of civilization than that spoilation of a continent which we once confused with… — Peter Matthiessen Copy Share Image
The same old hypocrisy. Life is a fight, and the strongest wins. All civilization does is hide the blood and cover up… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Primitiveness and civilization are degrees of the same thing. If civilization has an opposite, it is war. — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Artificial Intelligence leaves no doubt that it wants its audiences to enter a realm of pure fantasy when it identifies one of… — Godfried Danneels Copy Share Image
True Civilization does not lie in gas, nor in steam, nor in turn-tables. It lies in the reduction of the traces of… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
Throughout history, civilizations have built a common cause through coming-of-age rituals. But we don't do that anymore. Maybe we should think about… — Joe Klein Copy Share Image
I think it quite likely that we are the only civilization within several hundred light years; otherwise we would have heard radio… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
There can be no doubt that our descendants will learn to exploit the energy of fusion for peaceful purposes even before its… — Lev Artsimovich Copy Share Image
In a civilization like ours, I feel that everyone has to come to terms with the claims of Jesus Christ upon his… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
'Business,' properly understood, is so central to every aspect of our civilization that Republicans should proudly announce that they are indeed 'the… — Jacob K. Javits Copy Share Image
It's called civilization. Women invented it, and every time you men blow it all to bits, we just invent it again. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Civilization is not inherited; it has to be learned and earned by each generation anew; if the transmission should be interrupted for… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
There's still racism. Western Europe... has taken the native cultures of the Americas, the African cultures, the Asian civilization and lumped them… — Hans Rosling Copy Share Image
'Custom is the great deadener.' There is no doubt that we of the white race are going on obliviously supporting customs that… — Edwin Markham Copy Share Image
