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 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
Upon the sacredness of property civilization itself depends-the right of the laborer to his hundred dollars in the savings bank, and equally… — Andrew Carnegie Copy Share Image
Books are the building blocks of civilization and a people without books are a people without history, a people with no story… — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
There were 5 Exabytes of information created between the dawn of civilization through 2003, but that much information is now created every 2 days. — Eric Schmidt Copy Share Image
There will be no room, here, for the smug myopia which views American civilization as the final solution to all world problems;… — George F. Kennan Copy Share Image
When our days become dreary with low-hovering clouds and our nights become darker than a thousand midnights, we will know that we… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
...what makes you older is when your bones, muscles and blood wear out, when the heart sinks into oblivion and all the… — Richard Brautigan Copy Share Image
It is the triumph of civilization that at last communities have obtained such a mastery over natural laws that they drive and… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
First in point of time and interest comes the mortgage debt, i.e. the claim for the return of money lent on the… — Edward Jenks Copy Share Image
I started the Stress Reduction Clinic in 1979. The idea of bringing Buddhist meditation without the Buddhism into the mainstream of medicine… — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
Private enterprise in the history of civilization has never led large, expensive, dangerous projects with unknown risks. That has never happened because… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I hate and fear 'science' because of my conviction that, for long to come if not for ever, it will be the… — George Gissing Copy Share Image
“The attempt made in recent decades by secularist thinkers to disengage the moral principles of western civilization from their scripturally based religious… — Will Herberg Copy Share Image
If you can see, hear, feel, and think, you should know that King Dollar rules the United States, and that the workers… — Alexander Berkman Copy Share Image
My belief is firm in a law of compensation. The true rewards are ever in proportion to the labor and sacrifices made.… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
“colleges being nothing but grooming schools for the middle-class nonidentity which usually finds its perfect expression on the outskirts of the campus… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“Time has a different meaning for me, and these events that seem so monumental in the moment will one day be nothing… — Jessica Khoury Copy Share Image
I was saddened to learn of the passing of Leonard Nimoy, a fellow space traveler because he helped make the journey into… — Buzz Aldrin Copy Share Image
They've got something they do it with, I think it's called a mocracy, and it means everyone in the whole country can… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
IF we desire European civilization to be a raid and a rescue, we shall insist rather that souls are in real peril… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Vanity as an impulse has without doubt been of far more benefit to civilization than modesty has ever been. — William E. Woodward Copy Share Image
“The only gain of civilisation for mankind is the greater capacity for variety of sensations - and absolutely nothing more.” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“The day when two army corps can annihilate each other in one second, all civilized nations, it is to be hoped, will… — Alfred Nobel Copy Share Image
For such an advanced civilization as ours to be without images that are adequate to it is as serious a defect as… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
A civilization which leaves so large a number of its participants unsatisfied and drives them into revolt neither has nor deserves the… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
If during their education our youths become alienated from their language, history, ancestors, culture and civilization, it means there is a very… — Recep Tayyip Erdogan Copy Share Image
Ideas are the factors that lift civilization. They create revolutions. There is more dynamite in an idea than in many bombs. — John H. Vincent Copy Share Image
“civilization has made mankind if not more bloodthirsty, at least more vilely, more loathsomely bloodthirsty.” — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
“The city, which should be the symbol and center of civilization, can also be made to function as a concentration camp. This… — Edward Abbey 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
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
“The university system, a gift of Western civilization to the world, was developed by the Catholic Church.” — Thomas E. Woods Jr 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
The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization. — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
