To one who believes that really good industrial conditions are the hope for a machine civilization, nothing is more heartening than to… — Frances Perkins Copy Share Image
I believe with all my heart that civilization has produced nothing finer than a man or woman who thinks and practices true… — Frank Knox Copy Share Image
When I go biking, I am mentally far far away from civilization. The world is breaking someone else's heart. — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
“All culture, whatever significance it may have, just as all education, civilization, development, is absolutely powerless to renew the inner man.” — Herman Bavinck Copy Share Image
The crimes of extreme civilization are probably worse than those of extreme barbarism, because of their refinement, the corruption they presuppose, and… — Jules Amedee Barbey d'Aurevilly Copy Share Image
I've managed to dodge the curse. Not all my family have. Of course, music helped me - music is all about civilization,… — Gordon Getty Copy Share Image
The great menace of civilization in the present is that we offer an education with too little regard for the roots. — Vincent Massey Copy Share Image
The measure of any great civilization is its cities and a measure of a city's greatness is to be found in the… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
The notion of a separate organism is clearly an abstraction, as is also its boundary. Underlying all this is unbroken wholeness even… — David Bohm Copy Share Image
There is but little room for doubt that Egypt led the way in the creation of the earliest known group of civilizations… — James Henry Breasted Copy Share Image
“Empathy is a big part of Sparkleponies, because it’s also my belief (as a history and political science major) that societies that… — Chris Kluwe Copy Share Image
The Italian Revolution was fought first of all to obtain the liberty and unity of the nation, and then, with that achieved,… — Ernesto Teodoro Moneta Copy Share Image
The Kyoto Treaty wasn't perfect, but we signed it, in fact, helped to draft it. And I'm very proud of it, it… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
When it comes to the common rights and needs of men and women, there is no clash of civilizations. The requirements of… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
Who would have predicted a century ago that the richest civilizations in history would be made up of polluted tracts of suburban… — Alan Thein Durning Copy Share Image
"What is the meaning of life?" This question has no answer except in the history of how it came to be asked.… — Julian Jaynes Copy Share Image
In our civilization, there are permanent forms which are part of every epoch and every culture. They are not especially difficult to… — Philippe Starck Copy Share Image
The problem with water, though, is that the shortfalls don't show up until the very end. You can go on pumping unsustainably… — Lester R. Brown Copy Share Image
“Desire for goodness, Mister Reese, leads to earnestness. Earnestness in turn leads to sanctimonious self-righteousness, which breeds intolerance, upon which harsh judgment… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
“The Barbarian hopes — and that is the mark of him, that he can have his cake and eat it too.He will… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
Think of our DNA. In the last million years, our DNA hasn't changed at all. It's really much the same as it… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
In its broad sense, civilization means not only comfort in daily necessities but also the refining of knowledge and the cultivation of… — Fukuzawa Yukichi Copy Share Image
“Gunung Padang is not a natural hill but a man-made pyramid and the origins of construction here go back long before the… — Danny Hilman Natawidjaja Copy Share Image
I have given up the ambition to be a great scholar. I want to be more- simply a human. . . .… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
It's a weird curse, when you think about it. We're built for thought, and civilization, more than any other creature we've found.… — Josh Bazell Copy Share Image
I think in our desire to create a better America,we have to have civilized debate in this country and not just yelling. — Craig Ferguson Copy Share Image
If, by deferring or maybe even skipping college entirely, students were foregoing their one hope for immersion in Western civilization, there would… — Heather Mac Donald Copy Share Image
This knowledge, the knowledge that the physical well-being of the citizen is an important foundation for all of the activities of the… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Freedom!- is the fatuous jingle of our civilization, but only those deprived of it have the barest inkling re: what the stuff… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
It must first be reiterated that with extraordinary few exceptions no educated person in the history of Western Civilization from the third… — Jeffrey Burton Russell Copy Share Image
A banker who is allowed to borrow money at X and loan it out at X plus Y will just go crazy… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
A man's hope measures his civilization. The attainability of the hope measures, or may measure, the civilization of his nation and time. — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
The most striking contradiction of our civilization is the fundamental reverence for truth which we profess and the thorough-going disregard for it… — Vilhjalmur Stefansson Copy Share Image
I cannot think that espionage can be recommended as a technique for building an impressive civilization. It's a lout's game. — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
Movies are to our civilization what dreams and ideals are to individual lives: They express the mystery and help define the nature… — Frank Pierson Copy Share Image
The concept of conservation is a far truer sign of civilization than that spoilation of a continent which we once confused with… — Peter Matthiessen Copy Share Image
The press, watchful with more than the hundred eyes of Argus, strong with more than the hundred arms of Briareus, not only… — Charles Sumner Copy Share Image
The freedom enjoyed in Western society under the rule of law and constitutional government explains both the quality of its civilization and… — Paul Johnson Copy Share Image
There has never been but one question in all civilization-how to keep a few men from saying to many men: You work… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
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