The triangle of truisms, of father, mother and child, cannot be destroyed; it can only destroy those civilizations which disregard it. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Continue to express your dissent and your needs, but remember to remain civilized, for you will sorely miss civilization if it is… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
Civilization is a social plague on the planet, and vices are just as necessary to it as is a virus to disease. — Charles Fourier Copy Share Image
Bad things give us chance to achieve further stages of life whereas good things specify a limitation. Being bad is not so… — Bin R00t Copy Share Image
Transcendence gets you beyond ego. If you go beyond ego, you see all of this in a more decent perspective and you… — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image
That religion may have served some necessary function for us in the past does not preclude the possibility that it is now… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
Sexually progressive cultures gave us literature, philosophy, civilization and the rest, while sexually restrictive cultures gave us the Dark Ages and the… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
Artists are a free society's greatest advocates and its best bulwarks. Their triumphs are civilization's triumphs. — Andres Serrano Copy Share Image
“The last 10,000 to 20,000 years have witnessed a period of dramatic growth in human civilization. Indeed, our growth during this time… — Heidi Cullen Copy Share Image
One function, at least, of true wilderness is to provide a refuge from the crassitudes of civilization-whether visible, intangible, audible-whether of billboard,… — Benton MacKaye Copy Share Image
Civilization is the process in which one gradually increases the number of people included in the term 'we' or 'us' and at… — Howie Winter Copy Share Image
Our civilization is facing a radical, imminent mass change. The alternative to the hierarchical power structure is based on mutual aid and… — Jeremy Hammond Copy Share Image
Morals are not the important thing-nor enlightenment-nor civilization. A man can do absolutely well without them, but he can't do without something… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
... the history of the race, from infancy through its stages of barbarism, heathenism, civilization, and Christianity, is a process of suffering,… — Catharine Beecher Copy Share Image
Poverty is a national waste as well as individual waste. We are all diminished when any of us are denied proper education.… — Gough Whitlam Copy Share Image
One of the deepest impulses in man is the impulse to record, - to scratch a drawing on a tusk or keep… — John Jay Chapman Copy Share Image
“London was but a foretaste of this nomadic civilization which is altering human nature so profoundly, and throws upon personal relations a… — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
The capacity for friendship usually goes with highly developed civilizations. The ability to cultivate people differs by culture and class; but on… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
It is a simple matter to see the obvious, to do the expected. The tendency of the individual life is to be… — Jack London Copy Share Image
No dogma taught by the present civilization seems to form so insuperable an obstacle in a way of a right understanding of… — John Muir Copy Share Image
One of the greatest disasters that happened to modern civilization was for democracy to inscribe "liberty" on its banners instead of "justice."… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
Civilization has imposed countless restrictions and conventions on each of us, with the result that the subconscious in the majority of us… — Margaret Millar Copy Share Image
“Even today, some opt for the comforts of mystification, preferring to believe that the wonders of the ancient world were built by… — Ronald Wright Copy Share Image
“It wasn’t a city, it was a process, a weight on the world that distorted the land for hundreds of miles around.… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The civilization you sit in ... is now obvious in crisis, perhaps death pangs, twisting grotesquely like a dying animal, swirling down… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
I often think of it this way: The 21st century is going to be a war on the attention of humanity. Where… — Jesse Schell Copy Share Image
While he was alive Peter Jennings did considerable damage to the cause of civilization and human deceny [sic] by his sympathy for… — Paul Waldman Copy Share Image
When people come to play music as they do to play bridge, civilization will have taken the longest stride forward since the… — Jascha Heifetz Copy Share Image
Providence has given the United States the duty of extending Christian civilization. We come as ministering angels, not despots. — Knute Nelson Copy Share Image
Perhaps the inevitable tragedy of our complex civilization is that we must be specialists in our fields - and our fields have… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
Remember, for 5,000 years people probably rode those horses. They probably felt that horses were a permanent part of civilization. Everybody has… — Ken Moelis Copy Share Image
In the first half of the 20th Century, we lived through human disasters on a scale unimaginable. The Holocaust was once suggested… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
EROEI [energy returned on energy invested, or net energy] is to a civilization what gross profit is to a business, the source… — John Michael Greer Copy Share Image
Before the Greeks were the Tamils. The Tamils are one of the oldest civilizations thats still surviving. — M.I.A Copy Share Image
“If one is searching for the cause of brutality in mankind, it would do well to remember that civilization is a great… — Christopher Dutton Copy Share Image
“A world where you cannot even speak to another person without worrying about what they are going to think of you, has… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“The university system, a gift of Western civilization to the world, was developed by the Catholic Church.” — Thomas E. Woods Jr Copy Share Image
I used to play a lot of 'Civilization Revolution.' It's a strategy game that takes six to eight hours. You literally have… — Matt Czuchry Copy Share Image
All the stuff that makes life worth living is produced privately, and all that the government does is slow down the progress… — Llewellyn Rockwell Copy Share Image
“When we were on trees, others had lived in skies. When we reach skies, descendant of primitives will someday convey this message.” — Toba Beta Copy Share Image
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