It's called civilization. Women invented it, and every time you men blow it all to bits, we just invent it again. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
each generation devises better ways to survive. Civilization may, in one sense, be a tribute to the ingeniousness of some children in… — Lucy Freeman Copy Share Image
“See, that’s what civilization is,” he said. “Bunch of stories. That’s all.” “So what if it is?” Peaches said. “We’re really good… — James S.A. Corey Copy Share Image
We will see that the greatest problem confronting civilization is not merely religious extremism: rather, it is the larger set of cultural… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
Go to work! Go to work in the morn of a new creation... until you have... reached the height of self-progress, and… — Marcus Garvey Copy Share Image
To correct the evils, great and small, which spring from want of sympathy and from positive enmity among strangers, as nations or… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
This unique strategy that the advanced primates created, the strategy of using language to bind time, is what the process we call… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The effect of boredom on a large scale in history is underestimated. It is a main cause of revolutions, and would soon… — William Ralph Inge Copy Share Image
I'm particularly drawn to actors in their own little drama. I find it's that area I'm very alive to. And I don't… — Rachel Cusk Copy Share Image
Animal experiments occupy a central place in the material and spiritual edifice of our whole civilization. We are speaking here of one… — Rudolf Bahro Copy Share Image
“Can you truly understand what a nation is capable of, child of the Stillness? The entirety of Old Sanze, once it finally… — N.K. Jemisin Copy Share Image
If we did not take action to solve this crisis, it could indeed threaten the future of human civilization. That sounds shrill.… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
Our schools are, in a sense, factories, in which the raw products (children) are to be shaped and fashioned into products to… — Ellwood Patterson Cubberley Copy Share Image
The word civilization to my mind is coupled with death. When I use the word, I see civilization as a crippling, thwarting… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Perhaps the rediscovery of our humanity, and the potential of the human spirit which we have read about in legends of older… — Pierre Trudeau Copy Share Image
“The smile is civilization’s finest adornment. It signifies the willpower and duty to fashion mankind’s coexistence as quietly and agreeably as possible… — Iwan Goll Copy Share Image
Africa is never the same to anyone who leaves it and returns again. It is not a land of change, but it… — Beryl Markham Copy Share Image
I'm a champion for western civilization and, yes, our English language is a big part of it. It's a carrier of freedom.… — Steve King Copy Share Image
Many people correctly make the point that our only hope is to turn to God. For example, Charles Lindbergh, who said that… — Marion G. Romney Copy Share Image
“With the growth of civilisation in Europe, and with the revival of letters and of science in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries,… — Thomas Henry Huxley Copy Share Image
Having come into contact with a civilization which has over-emphasized the freedom of the individual, we are in fact faced with one… — Julius Nyerere Copy Share Image
Our first duty to liberty is to keep our own. But it is also our duty - as Europeans - to keep… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
If the black man is feeble and not important to the existing races, not on a parity with the best race, the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“From my childhood I had heard read, and read the Bible myself. Morning and evening the sacred volume was opened and prayers… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“Rewilding is not about abandoning civilization but about enhancing it. It is to ‘love not man the less, but Nature more’.” — George Monbiot Copy Share Image
To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Where is everybody? Humans could theoretically colonize the galaxy in a million years or so, and if they could, astronauts from older… — Enrico Fermi Copy Share Image
War is, we have been forced to admit, even in the face of its huge place in our civilization, an asocial trait. — Ruth Benedict Copy Share Image
In all earlier civilizations, it should be remembered, commerce was treated as a narrow activity and by no means the senior sector… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships - the ability of all peoples, of all kinds,… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
When I was a graduate student at Harvard, I learned about showers and central heating. Ten years later, I learned about breakfast… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
California is now close to spending more on prisons than it does on higher education - surely the death warrant of a… — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
You can't have a healthy civilization without healthy soil. You can't have junk food and have healthy people. — Joel Salatin Copy Share Image
The sense of a long last night over civilization is back again; it has perhaps not been here so intensely in thirty… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
Technological civilizations don't last long. You're all right until you get a printing press. Then a race starts between technology and common… — Jack McDevitt Copy Share Image
“Back then: to be regarded as well-known, one had to be great. Today: to be regarded as great, one has to be… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Government should uphold-and not undermine-those institutions which are custodians of the very values upon which civilization is founded: religion, education and, above… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
“Walls, no less than writing, define civilization. They are monuments of resistance against time, like writing itself. . .” — Robert Pogue Harrison Copy Share Image
Wilderness itself is the basis of all our civilization. I wonder if we have enough reverence for life to concede to wilderness… — Margaret Murie Copy Share Image
When kids look up to great scientists the way they do to great musicians and actors, civilization will jump to the next… — Brian Greene Copy Share Image
