“Rewilding is not about abandoning civilization but about enhancing it. It is to ‘love not man the less, but Nature more’.” — George Monbiot Copy Share Image
Where is everybody? Humans could theoretically colonize the galaxy in a million years or so, and if they could, astronauts from older… — Enrico Fermi Copy Share Image
War is, we have been forced to admit, even in the face of its huge place in our civilization, an asocial trait. — Ruth Benedict Copy Share Image
In all earlier civilizations, it should be remembered, commerce was treated as a narrow activity and by no means the senior sector… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships - the ability of all peoples, of all kinds,… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
When I was a graduate student at Harvard, I learned about showers and central heating. Ten years later, I learned about breakfast… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
California is now close to spending more on prisons than it does on higher education - surely the death warrant of a… — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
You can't have a healthy civilization without healthy soil. You can't have junk food and have healthy people. — Joel Salatin Copy Share Image
What leaders have to remember is that somewhere under the somnolent surface is the creature that builds civilizations, the dreamer of dreams,… — John W. Gardner Copy Share Image
Having a thirteen-year-old in the family is like having a general-admission ticket to the movies, radio and TV. You get to understand… — Max Lerner Copy Share Image
If we try to think back to the dim and distant past... what is it that helps us reconstruct those times, and… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
I would say practical progressive, which means that the Republican party or any political party has got to recognize the problems of… — Alf Landon Copy Share Image
How fortunate for civilization, that Beethoven, Michelangelo, Galileo and Faraday were not required by law to attend schools where their total personalities… — Joel Henry Hildebrand Copy Share Image
Virtually every advancement made by our species since civilization first peeked out of its nest of stone has been initiated by lone… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Our civilization is characterized by the word "progress." Progress is its form rather than making progress being one of its features. Typically… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
It is clear that the future of freedom and peace depend on the actions of America. This nation is freedom's home. We… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
A great purposelessness has descended upon modern civilizations. People at large have lost any sense of the meaning and purpose of life;… — Matthew Kelly Copy Share Image
“I think that in all descriptions of the good life here on earth we must assume a certain basis of animal vitality… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Taking the continent as a whole, this religious tension may be responsible for the revival of the commonest racial feeling. Africa is… — Frantz Fanon Copy Share Image
Not everything in man's life is summed up in the problem of food. Anyone who thinks that a civilization can be founded… — Toyohiko Kagawa Copy Share Image
Those who want their rights respected under the Constitution and the law ought to set the example themselves of observing the Constitution… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
“The technologies which have had the most profound effects on human life are usually simple. A good example of a simple technology… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
“...But the Mahommedan religion increases, instead of lessening, the fury of intolerance. It was originally propagated by the sword, and ever since,… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
In Globetrotter, David Albahari explores the consciousness of emigres from the former Yugoslavia, Croatia and Serbia, showing that while abroad, many of… — Josip Novakovich Copy Share Image
Civilizations rise and fall on confidence. America had figured out a way to borrow money to manufacture it. — Ron Suskind Copy Share Image
One could judge the degree of civilization of a country by the social and political position of its women — Charles Fourier Copy Share Image
“Technology is crucial to civilization why? Because it helps us make our fate. We don't need God or miracles or the flight… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
What appears to be the established order of present-day civilization is actually only the inert but spectacular momentum of a high velocity… — Jose Arguelles Copy Share Image
Spanish civilization crushed the Indian. English civilization scorned and neglected him. French civilization embraced and cherished him. — Francis Parkman Copy Share Image
English civilization the humanizing, the bringing into one harmonious and truly humane life, of the whole body of English society that is… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
In the cold, shivering twilight, preceding the daybreak of civilization, the dominating emotion of man was fear. — Paul Harris Copy Share Image
“What we call 'evil' is produced by civilization, its constraints and repressions, deforming the spontaneous, free self-expression of the personality.” — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
As civilization advances, man grows unconscious of the primitive elements of life; he is separated from them by his perfection of material… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
We don't understand the power of nature and the world because we don't live with it. Our environment is designed to sustain… — Laurence Gonzales Copy Share Image
The contribution of Islam to history and modern civilization is the product of the efforts of peoples of many races and tongues… — Aly Khan Copy Share Image
The sum of the whole matter is this - our civilization cannot survive materially unless it be redeemed spiritually. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
K is for "Kenghis Khan"; He was a very nice person. History has no record of him. There is a moral in… — Harlan Ellison Copy Share Image
I once heard the survivors of a colony of ants that had been partially obliterated by a cow's foot seriously debating the… — Don Marquis Copy Share Image
Christianity is the enemy of liberty and civilization. It has kept mankind in slavery and oppression. The Church and the State have… — August Bebel Copy Share Image
“Civilization is refinement of spirit, respect of one's neighbor, tolerance of foreign opinion, courtesy of manner.” — Vicente Blasco Ibáñez Copy Share Image
