Women know what men have long forgotten. The ultimate economic and spiritual unit of any civilization is still the family. — Clare Boothe Luce Copy Share Image
“People who can read and write expertly, as you can, are miracles and, in my opinion, entitle us to suspect we might… — Kurt Vonnegut Jr Copy Share Image
All our civilization is based on invention; before invention, men lived on fruits and nuts and pine cones and slept in caves. — Reginald Fessenden Copy Share Image
Fear of change is a part of the state of fear man has ever lived in but out of which he has… — Elsie Clews Parsons Copy Share Image
We are in the twilight of this earth. The societies and civilizations of human beings will not endure much longer because of… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The process by which civilization, as an abstract entity distinct from the societies in which it is embodied, dies or is reborn… — Carroll Quigley Copy Share Image
A society that feels itself too poor to afford the preservation of wilderness is not worthy of the name civilization. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
There are certain things for which civilization has no answer. But if you choose to meddle thus, then you must be prepared… — Jimmy Sangster Copy Share Image
For we need this thing wilderness far more than it needs us. Civilizations (like glaciers) come and go, but the mountain and… — Benton MacKaye Copy Share Image
Life was dense, dark, ancient. They watched Dean, serious and insane at his raving wheel, with eyes of hawks. All had their… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
Many countries today have begun the transition from an industrial wealth system and civilization to a knowledge-based system - without appreciating that… — Alvin Toffler Copy Share Image
If you know anything about Islamic civilization, or about the contemporary Middle East, about the sociology and the anthropology of the people… — Mark Helprin 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
Great numbers of children will be born who understand electronics and atomic power as well as other forms of energy. They will… — Edgar Cayce Copy Share Image
Yes, it's vital to make lifestyle choices to mitigate damage caused by being a member of industrialized civilization, but to assign primary… — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
It is not for nothing, either, that the umbrella has become the very foremost badge of modern civilization--the Urim and Thummim of… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
In the infancy of civilization, when our island was as savage as New Guinea, when letters and arts were still unknown to… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
“Jean-Jacques Rousseau defined civilization as when people build fences. A very perceptive observation. And it’s true—all civilization is the product of a… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
The final goal of world revolution is not socialism, or even communism, it is not a change in the present economic system,… — Leon V. DePoncins Copy Share Image
Life has always seemed to me like a plant that lives on its rhizome. Its true life is invisible, hidden in the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is a characteristic of any decaying civilization that the great masses of the people are unconscious of the tragedy. Humanity in… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
Civilizations grow by agreements and accomodations and accretions, not by repudiations. The rebels and the revolutionaries are only eddies, they keep the… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
We have known the bitterness of defeat and the exultation of triumph, and from both we have learned there can be no… — Douglas MacArthur Copy Share Image
A lot of people they don’t know that Africans even named the stars, that different peoples, different so-called native peoples, have their… — Gayl Jones Copy Share Image
I would have been dead if it weren't for that great gift to civilization from the Chemistry Department of Harvard, which was… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
As a lover of truth, the national propaganda of all the belligerent nations sickened me. As a lover of civilization, the return… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
we came to realize that a civilization which rode roughshod over the way of life of other peoples was incorporating evil in… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
We live in the midst of the greatest scientific civilization in the history of the world. But the greatest wisdom walking our… — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
The sole precoccupation of this learned society was the destruction of humanity for philanthropic reasons and the perfection of weapons as instruments… — Jules Verne Copy Share Image
It seems to me, Golan, that the advance of civilization is nothing but an exercise in the limiting of privacy. — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
This planet came with a set of instructions, but we seem to have misplaced them. Civilization needs a new operating system. — Paul Hawken Copy Share Image
What do I consider a teacher should be? One who breathes life into knowledge so that it takes new form in progress… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
“You cannot be civilized until you're decolonized, you cannot be cultured until you're unamericanized, you cannot be human until you're unwhitewashed.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
There has never yet been a human society worthy of the name of civilization. Civilization remains a remote ideal. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
A mother can legitimately be said to 'have a baby' - but in a civilization such as ours, she can never claim… — Mary Blakely Copy Share Image
Beneficience removes evils, introduces the practice of virtue, and adds to general welfare and civilization. — Dayananda Saraswati Copy Share Image
We live in a society that has no adequate images anymore, and if we do not find adequate images and an adequate… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
“Let the war turn off the families. Our civilization is flinging itself to pieces. Stand back from the centrifuge.” — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
The easily ridiculed, so-so status quo often hides Herculean efforts by those whom we take for granted, and who, working in the… — Victor Davis Hanson Copy Share Image
The United States has lost her unique position as a leader in the progress of civilization and has taken up her place… — Charles Eliot Norton Copy Share Image
