Generations do not age. Every youth of any period, any civilization, has the same possibilities as always. — Cesare Pavese Copy Share Image
Civilizations die from philosophical calm, irony, and a sense of fair play quite as surely as they die of debauchery. — Joseph Wood Krutch Copy Share Image
“Self as such was not normal ..will be like the Justice, which lost its wings !! Both are rivals for the same man ..” — Hesham Nebr Copy Share Image
One of the keys to ensuring accountability is to have civil servants who witness fraud, waste and abuse to blow the whistle. — Byron Dorgan Copy Share Image
“back home.. the tablecloth of civilization makes us forget the already painted pine it covers! ([50], Zenith trans.)” — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
One could surely argue that the Buddhist tradition, taken as a whole, represents the richest source of contemplative wisdom that any civilization… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
It is impossible to maintain civilization with 12-year-olds having babies, with 15-year-olds killing each other, with 17-year-olds dying of AIDS and with… — Newt Gingrich Copy Share Image
In a dying civilization, political prestige is the reward not of the shrewdest diagnostician, but of the man with the best bedside… — Eric Ambler Copy Share Image
It is not just contemporary industrial society that is dysfunctional; it is civilization itself. We humans are born to be creatures of… — Chellis Glendinning Copy Share Image
Strong, generous, and confident, she has nobly served mankind. Beware how you trifle with your marvellous inheritance, this great land of ordered… — Henry Cabot Lodge Copy Share Image
Innumerable conditions must be exquisitely optimized for the support of humanity and of civilization. Many of them are highly time variable. Evidence… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think one of the big errors people are making right now is thinking that old-style businesses will be obsolete, when actually… — Carlos Slim Copy Share Image
The civilization, so often vaunted by the learned exponents of arts and sciences, will, if allowed to overleap the bounds of moderation,… — Bahá'u'lláh Copy Share Image
I think the biggest reason otherwise radical people don't want to face the necessity of ending industrial civilization is privilege. We're the… — Lierre Keith Copy Share Image
Every marvel of our age arose out of the critical give and take of an open society. No other civilization ever managed… — David Brin Copy Share Image
God bless America - what other civilization would give Patrick Dempsey another shot to rule as a sex symbol, twenty years after… — Rob Sheffield Copy Share Image
“He says that there can be no high civilization without enslavement of the masses, either nominal or real. There must, he says,… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
“Most people regard the primeval forest as a threatening domain of wilderness trails that often lead bewildered hikers to their deaths, nests… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
I'm not so sure he's wrong about automobiles," he said, "With all their speed forward they may be a step backward for… — Booth Tarkington Copy Share Image
When the veil of fiction was rent, man shuddered before "Nature, red in tooth and claw." Nature had always been that and… — Revilo P. Oliver Copy Share Image
“It is a curious mystery [...] that the exact same notions of the Seven Sages as the bringers of civilization in the… — Graham Hancock Copy Share Image
Access to knowledge is the superb, the supreme act of truly great civilizations. Of all the institutions that purport to do this,… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
“Thus identified with astronomy, in proclaiming truths supposed to be hostile to Scripture, Geology has been denounced as the enemy of religion.… — David Brewster Copy Share Image
We finally know where the red line for climate really is. After the rapid melt of arctic ice in the summer of… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
Listen, I have been educated. I have learned about Western Civilization. Do you know What the message of Western Civilization is? I… — Eileen Myles Copy Share Image
“Help anyone who comes to you, as much as lies in your power, not because you are good person, nor because you… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
A civilization is complicated, in the first place, because it is dynamic; that is, it is constantly changing in the passage of… — Carroll Quigley Copy Share Image
The Strength of a civilization is not measured by its ability to fight wars, but rather by its ability to prevent them. — Gene Roddenberry Copy Share Image
Justice has nothing to do with victor nations and vanquished nations, but must be a moral standard that all the world's peoples… — Hideki Tojo Copy Share Image
“A civilization in which frequent unemployment on the part of a multitude of men, able and willing to work, is a normal… — Joseph Casper Husslein Copy Share Image
Historically, if you look at great civilizations, why do they crumble? Is it because of what's outside or because of something internal?… — Phylicia Rashad Copy Share Image
It is clear that every civilization undergoes a process of historical change. We can see that a civilization comes into existence, passes… — Carroll Quigley Copy Share Image
In our rich consumers' civilization we spin cocoons around ourselves and get possessed by our possessions. — Max Lerner Copy Share Image
Energy is the only universal currency: one of its many forms must be transformed to another in order for stars to shine,… — Vaclav Smil Copy Share Image
the position of women, that sad and well-nigh universal blot on civilizations, was never far from her mind. — Rose Macaulay Copy Share Image
And after two days in civilization we realized we could never stay for long and started to plan our next adventure. — Bob Bitchin Copy Share Image
In God's wildness lies the hope of the world-the great fresh unblighted, unredeemed wilderness. The galling harness of civilization drops off, and… — John Muir Copy Share Image
In Antarctica you get to know people so well that in comparison you do not seem to know the people in civilization… — Apsley Cherry-Garrard Copy Share Image
It was the Law of the Sea, they said. Civilization ends at the waterline. Beyond that, we all enter the food chain,… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
We're not on a sustainable path in civilization. We're on an exponential growth curve, on which we perhaps always have been, but… — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image
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