Sedentary culture is the goal of civilization. It means the end of its lifespan and brings about its corruption. — Ibn Khaldun Copy Share Image
Each time you admire the façade of the New York Public Library, you are paying homage to Western civilization. — Ibn Warraq Copy Share Image
I'm opposed to a lot of the time that we as a civilization have come to spend looking at screens. For my… — Nick Offerman Copy Share Image
The very essence of our civilization is that we give a paramount place to morality in all our affairs, public or private. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Civilization is so hard on the body that some have called it a disease, despite the arts that keep puny bodies alive… — G. Stanley Hall Copy Share Image
Even on the most solemn occasions I got away without wearing socks and hid that lack of civilization in high boots — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I think it is a sad reflection on our civilization that while we can and do measure the temperature in the atmosphere… — Nicholas Kurti Copy Share Image
America may be unique in being a country which has leapt from barbarism to decadence without touching civilization. — John O'Hara Copy Share Image
Evolution made civilization steward of this planet. A hundred thousand years later, the steward stood before evolution not helper but destroyer, not… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
Equality, in a social sense, may be divided into that of condition and that of rights. Equality of condition is incompatible with… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We need to make sure that the Voyager probes carrying a record of human civilization speeding beyond our solar system remain an… — Priyamvada Natarajan Copy Share Image
Civilization rests on two things," said Hitzig; "the discovery that fermentation produces alcohol, and voluntary ability to inhibit defecation. And I put… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
How far men go for the material of their houses! The inhabitants of the most civilized cities, in all ages, send into… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The mystery school continued throughout the greater Egyptian civilization, which was the second age of humankind and later on into the third… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Force plays a much larger part in the government of the world than it did before 1914, and what is especially alarming,… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“The fragility of the veneer of civilization astonished him. Yet we take it for granted because, being born into it, we have… — Thomas DiMauro Copy Share Image
Justice has its anger, my lord Bishop, and the wrath of justice is an element of progress. Whatever else may be said… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
One of the most dangerous errors is that civilization is automatically bound to increase and spread. The lesson of history is the… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The nature of men and of organized society dictates the maintenance in every field of action of the highest and purest standards… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
I am leaving in order to have peace and quiet. To be rid of the influence of civilization. I only want to… — Paul Gauguin Copy Share Image
“Only by the aid of language does reason bring about its most important achievements, namely the harmonious and consistent action of several… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“In every important way we are such secrets from one another, and I do believe that there is a separate language in… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“Conceive a world-society developed materially far beyond the wildest dreams of America. Unlimited power, derived partly from the artificial disintegration of atoms,… — Olaf Stapledon Copy Share Image
Unless we realize that the essence of Nazism is also an attempt to solve a universal problem of Western civilization - that… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Material civilization, nay, even luxury, is necessary to create work for the poor. Bread! Bread! I do not believe in a God… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
There is not a respectable system of civilization known to history whose foundations were not laid in the institution of domestic slavery. — Robert M. T. Hunter Copy Share Image
“There is always a possibility that a higher civilization in the universe could visit the Earth and destroy our civilization, or on… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
Lucifer represents life, though, progress, civilization, liberty, independence. Lucifer is the Logos, the Serpent, the Savior. — H. P. Blavatsky Copy Share Image
Ah teach me bout Marco Polo and Napoleon. Nah teach me nothin' 'bout the river Nile bank. Where civilization it began. You… — Capleton Copy Share Image
Babies and language are the essential ingredients of civilization, and speakers of language no more know where it came from than babies… — Charlton Laird Copy Share Image
Democracy with its semi-civilization sincerely cherishes junk. The artists power should be spiritual. But the power of the majority is material. When… — Paul Klee Copy Share Image
A monument's dimensions should be determined by the importance to civilization of the events commemorated. — Gutzon Borglum Copy Share Image
The ultimate test of any civilization is how we treat the most vulnerable... what we do to our children. Our world has… — Ravi Zacharias Copy Share Image
Absolute freedom need not be lost as the price we must pay for the advent of civilization. Man may achieve liberty and… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
This freedom of political discussion on the highest level is something which Western civilization has in common with that of classical antiquity,… — Christopher Dawson Copy Share Image
It is the object of learning, not only to satisfy the curiosity and perfect the spirits of ordinary men, but also to… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
We represent the only efficient moral, intellectual and political force capable of saving human civilization. — Lyndon LaRouche Copy Share Image
Slowly, painstakingly, like ants, men would make their paths and civilization and their wars once again, only to have it wash away… — Kiran Desai Copy Share Image
Accommodation to change, the thoughtful pursuit of alternative futures are keys to the survival of civilization and perhaps of the human species. — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
We need to shift from an economic to a humanitarian organizing principle for human civilization. And women, en masse, should be saying… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
