The real index of civilization is when people are kinder than they need to be. — Louis de Bernieres Copy Share Image
Civilization does everything for the mind and favors it entirely at the expense of the body. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Art is the response of the living to life. It is therefore the record left behind by civilization. — John French Sloan Copy Share Image
Of what value is a civilization that can't toast a piece of bread as ordered? — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
When civilization stands at the edge of a cliff, a step forward doesn't make much sense. — Denis Hayes Copy Share Image
One of the tests of the civilization of people is the treatment of its criminals. — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
“The further from civilization you get, the louder your whispers become.” — Cody Edward Lee Miller Copy Share Image
“Civilization is a mutant beast that emerged from the shattered egg of primitive stability.-Sissy Hankshaw” — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“The cities make ferocious men because they may corrupt man. The mountain, the sea, the forest, make savage men; they development fierce… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
The money-changers have fled from their high seats in the temple of our civilization. We may now restore that temple to the… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
All our lauded technological progress -- our very civilization - is like the axe in the hand of the pathological criminal. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
If our civilization is destroyed, it will not be by barbarians from below. Our barbarians come from above. — Henry Demarest Lloyd Copy Share Image
The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
Civilization has been thrust upon me... and it has not added one whit to my love for truth, honesty, and generosity. — Luther Standing Bear Copy Share Image
For if we take the ages into our account, may there not be a civilization going on among brutes as well as… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
We must teach our people the greatness of China's historical culture. In our educational program we must stress Chinese history and geography… — Chiang Kai-shek Copy Share Image
No race or civilization of people are just going to say, "Oh, instead of using real meat, let's just mash up a… — Frank Fairfield Copy Share Image
If I were starting life over again, I am inclined to think that I would go into the advertising business in preference… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Women have been charged with deviousness and duplicity since the dawn of civilization so they have never been able to pretend that… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
As man advances in civilization, and small tribes are united into larger communities, the simplest reason would tell each individual that he… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Though tax records are generally looked upon as a nuisance, the day may come when historians will realize that tax records tell… — Charles Adams Copy Share Image
Our forefathers had civilization inside themselves, the wild outside. We live in the civilization they created, but within us the wilderness still… — Tom C. Clark Copy Share Image
My point is, as civilization is progressing, Mosaic law came down from the mountain, was handed to civilization, it emerged through the… — Steve King Copy Share Image
As a great democratic society, we have a special responsibility to the arts. For art is the great democrat, calling forth creative… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
“Nobody can understand the greatness of the thirteenth century, who does not realize that it was a great growth of new things… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Liberty, next to religion has been the motive of good deeds and the common pretext of crime, from the sowing of the… — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
But in practical affairs, particularly in politics, men are needed who combine human experience and interest in human relations with a knowledge… — Max Born Copy Share Image
In the old days, people used to risk their lives in India or in the Americas in order to bring back products… — Claude Levi-Strauss Copy Share Image
“The first man who, having enclosed a piece of ground, bethought himself of saying This is mine , and found people simple… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
“Not only is domination paid for with the estrangement of human beings from the dominated objects. but the relationships of human beings,… — Max Horkheimer Copy Share Image
“It was all here for me, just as it has all been here for you, the best and the worst of Western… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
