If the battle for civilization comes down to the wimps versus the barbarians, the barbarians are going to win. — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
When any civilization is dust and ashes," he said, "art is all that's left over. Images, words, music. Imaginative structures. Meaning—human meaning,… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Without adventure civilization is in full decay. ... The great fact [is] that in their day the great achievements of the past… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Cardinal Arithmetics is much older than Number Theory. People used to exchange things way before there were numbers. Expressing numbers like 762… — Saharon Shelah Copy Share Image
The Jews always complained, kvetching about false gods, and erected the biggest false God, Jehovah, in middle of western civilization. — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
My theories explain, but cannot slow the decline of a great civilization. I set out to be a reformer, but only became… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
If mankind were to continue in other than the present barbarism, a new path must be found, a new civilization based on… — Clifford D. Simak Copy Share Image
The writer in western civilization has become not a voice of his tribe, but of his individuality. This is a very narrow-minded… — Aharon Appelfeld Copy Share Image
We could tell them [alien civilization] things that we have discovered in the realm of mathematical physics, but there is stuff that… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
What passes for education, culture or maturity in most minds is merely how individuals want to think of themselves, a contrived egocentric… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
When you look on one of your contemporary 'good copies' of historical remains, ask yourself the question: Not what style, but in… — Louis Sullivan Copy Share Image
And again, we're kind of trying to be in that place, that's just so absurd and irreverent and hysterical and it's something… — Brian Henson Copy Share Image
I must try to be alone for part of each year...and part of each day...in order to keep my core, my center...Women… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
To mistake ugliness for reality is one of the frauds of the realistic school [of writing]. A hunger for the unknown and… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
“As historian Arnold Toynbee (1889–1975) noted, civilizations rarely die simply from external assault; they are first hollowed out by internal moral decline.… — Carrie Gress Copy Share Image
But science is the great instrument of social change, all the greater because its object is not change but knowledge, and its… — Arthur Balfour Copy Share Image
The vigour of civilised societies is preserved by the widespread sense that high aims are worth while. Vigorous societies harbour a certain… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
“The West is a civilization that has survived all the prophecies of its collapse with a singular stratagem. Just as the bourgeoisie… — The Invisible Committee Copy Share Image
Friedrich Engels once said: "Bourgeois society stands at the crossroads, either transition to socialism or regression into barbarism." What does "regression into… — Rosa Luxemburg Copy Share Image
“That’s the thing about the collapse of civilization, Blake. It never happens according to plan – there’s no slavering horde of zombies.… — Mark A. Rayner Copy Share Image
It was in the 1960s that the left convinced itself that there is something fascistic about patriotism and something perversely "patriotic" about… — Jonah Goldberg Copy Share Image
“I'm reasonably certain, salmon, swordfish, and hammerhead sharks do not find themselves paralyzed by spasms of self-blame for their plight - What… — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
Man... is an inextricable tangle of culture and biology. And not being simple, he is not simply good; he has... a kind… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The same failure of liberalism is evident in Western Europe, where the dogma of multiculturalism has left a secular Europe very slow… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
My goal in life is to change the entire social and economic structure of western civilization, to make it a feminist world. — Marilyn French Copy Share Image
There are few substance to which it yields interest, when it is considered how very intimately the knowledge and properties and uses… — George Fownes Copy Share Image
“Our civilization rests on a faulty premise, that the world is physical and mechanical, energy and matter only. We do not pay… — Richard Grossinger Copy Share Image
Everybody thinks that this civilization has lasted a very long time but it really does take very few grandfathers' granddaughters to take… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
“A civilized woman's demands: A man who will (1) make her come … sometimes; but (2) pay the bills … at all times.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“Women provide the only true link to civilization. Men simply are not ruthless enough to survive on their own.” — Karen Hawkins Copy Share Image
I happen to be a big fan of Western civilization; I think it beats the hell out of tyranny and starvation. — Jordan Peterson Copy Share Image
Insects have their own point of view about civilization a man thinks he amounts to a great deal but to a flea… — Don Marquis Copy Share Image
Islamism is a monstrous totalitarian ideology that has declared war on our nation, on reason, on civilization. — Marine Le Pen Copy Share Image
While the comforts of modern civilization and technological success or economic success seem at the moment quite fulfilling, I can assure you… — Frederick Lenz 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
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