Modern civilization has taught us to convert night into day and golden silence into brazen din and noise. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The sickness of the individual is ultimately caused by and sustained by the sickness of his civilization — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
In Kali yuga, whole atmosphere is surcharged with faithlessness, Material sense gratification is standard of civilization. — Radhanath Swami Copy Share Image
Seriously, 'Honey Boo Boo' is the decay of Western civilization. Just because so many people watch the show doesn't mean it's good. — Adam Levine Copy Share Image
The Imaginative Child will become the imaginative man or woman most apt to create, to invent, and therefore to foster civilization — L. Frank Baum Copy Share Image
The sense of a long last night over civilization is back again; it has perhaps not been here so intensely in thirty… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
Technological civilizations don't last long. You're all right until you get a printing press. Then a race starts between technology and common… — Jack McDevitt Copy Share Image
“Walls, no less than writing, define civilization. They are monuments of resistance against time, like writing itself. . .” — Robert Pogue Harrison Copy Share Image
“There is always a city. There is always a civilization. There is always a barbarian with a pickaxe. Sometimes you are the… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
It is the habitual carriage of the umbrella that is the stamp of Respectability. Robinson Crusoe was rather a moralist than a… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
“To be clear, the Roman Empire didn’t end because everybody was having sex. No civilization was ever toppled by “too much sexy… — Jennifer Wright Copy Share Image
Ever since man began to till the soil and learned not to eat the seed grain but to plant it and wait… — S. I. Hayakawa Copy Share Image
It is yet another Civilized Power, with its banner of the Prince of Peace in one hand and its loot-basket and its… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Slavery as an institution that degraded man to a thing has never died out. In some periods of history it has flourished:… — Milton Meltzer Copy Share Image
The elemental simplicities of wilderness travel were thrills. They represented complete freedom to make mistakes. The wilderness gave those rewards and penalties,… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
We must appraise civilization in relation to its territory and in relation to its duration. The character of the medium of communication… — Harold Innis Copy Share Image
It is often asserted that woman owes all the advantages of the position she occupies to-day to Christianity, but the facts of… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
I rejoice that horses and steers have to be broken before they can be made the slaves of men, and that men… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
We're living in a funny world kid, a peculiar civilization. The police are playing crooks in it, and the crooks are doing… — Jim Thompson Copy Share Image
A man-made thing that produces pleasure (and criticism) by somehow taping into the order of the universe is beautiful. Making beautiful things… — Tucker Viemeister Copy Share Image
Peace is the most covetable possession on the earth. It is the greatest treasure in all the universe. Peace is the most… — Sivananda Copy Share Image
“Civilization is complex. It involves the existence of human communities characterized by political and social organization; dominating and utilizing natural forces; adapting… — Frank L. DeSilva Copy Share Image
In many of the more relaxed civilizations on the Outer Eastern Rim of the Galaxy, the Hitch-Hiker's Guide has already supplanted the… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
But for me, dinner at a fine restaurant was the ultimate luxury. It was the very height of civilization. For what was… — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
“Back then: to be regarded as well-known, one had to be great. Today: to be regarded as great, one has to be… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Government should uphold-and not undermine-those institutions which are custodians of the very values upon which civilization is founded: religion, education and, above… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Wilderness itself is the basis of all our civilization. I wonder if we have enough reverence for life to concede to wilderness… — Margaret Murie Copy Share Image
We're a planet of nearly six billion ninnies living in a civilization that was designed by a few thousand amazingly smart deviants. — Scott Adams Copy Share Image
When kids look up to great scientists the way they do to great musicians and actors, civilization will jump to the next… — Brian Greene Copy Share Image
While denial leads to certainty, it is only the certainty of death. This is true for individuals and also for civilizations. — Graciela Chichilnisky Copy Share Image
The consensus is that climate change ranks along with nuclear warfare as the top two risks facing human civilization. — Graciela Chichilnisky Copy Share Image
In America there is not one single element of civilization that is not made to depend, in the end, upon public opinion. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
“See, that’s what civilization is,” he said. “Bunch of stories. That’s all.” “So what if it is?” Peaches said. “We’re really good… — James S.A. Corey Copy Share Image
each generation devises better ways to survive. Civilization may, in one sense, be a tribute to the ingeniousness of some children in… — Lucy Freeman Copy Share Image
Go to work! Go to work in the morn of a new creation... until you have... reached the height of self-progress, and… — Marcus Garvey Copy Share Image
To correct the evils, great and small, which spring from want of sympathy and from positive enmity among strangers, as nations or… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
We will see that the greatest problem confronting civilization is not merely religious extremism: rather, it is the larger set of cultural… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
This unique strategy that the advanced primates created, the strategy of using language to bind time, is what the process we call… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The effect of boredom on a large scale in history is underestimated. It is a main cause of revolutions, and would soon… — William Ralph Inge Copy Share Image
To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
