Our political system continues to produce human rights disasters and social crises, thereby not only constricting China's own development but also limiting… — Liu Xiaobo Copy Share Image
Ethiopians, that is, Negroes, gave the world the first idea of right and wrong and thus laid the basis of religion and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If we cannot by reason, by influence, by example, by strenuous effort, and by personal sacrifice, mend the bad places of civilization,… — Auberon Herbert Copy Share Image
Collecting facts is important. Knowledge is important. But if you don't have an imagination to use the knowledge, civilization is nowhere. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
In the most civilized and progressive countries freedom of discussion is recognized as a fundamental principle. — C. E. M. Joad Copy Share Image
The flowering of civilization is the finished man, the man of sense, of grace, of accomplishment, of social power--the gentleman. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I know a lot of Americans in Paris who have married Frenchmen. They keep bringing up their experience, the clash of civilizations,… — Leslie Caron Copy Share Image
The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization. — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
There is a one-in-300 chance that Earth will be struck on March 16, 2880, by an asteroid large enough to destroy civilization… — Nathan Myhrvold Copy Share Image
I believe that the civilization India evolved is not to be beaten in the world. Nothing can equal the seeds sown by… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
New approaches are needed, new orientations in both thought and action. We must make the transition to a new civilization...We are talking… — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
What a splendid perspective contact with a profoundly different civilization might provide! In a cosmic setting vast and old beyond ordinary human… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“Any system that values profit over human life is a very dangerous one indeed. Simply put, it lacks values, and such a… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
“And that through all the ups and downs, nothing really worthwhile is ever permanently lost, even though its creators may be long… — Paul Kriwaczek Copy Share Image
If we don't watch out, the pleasure o be gained from the discriminating enjoyment of food will be lost. It may not… — Benoite Groult Copy Share Image
Imagine a survivor of a failed civilization with only a tattered book on aromatherapy for guidance in arresting a cholera epidemic. Yet,… — James Lovelock Copy Share Image
“Pharaohs It took Khufu twenty-three years to build his Great Pyramid at Giza, where some eleven hundred stone blocks, each weighing about… — Daniel Quinn Copy Share Image
“It is my hypothesis that the fundamental source of conflict in this new world will not be primarily ideological or primarily economic.… — Samuel P. Huntington Copy Share Image
“In some respects, the sexual mores of Victorian Britain replicated the mechanics of the age-defining steam engine. Blocking the flow of erotic… — Christopher Ryan Copy Share Image
Saving Greenland is both a metaphor and a precondition for saving civilization. If its ice sheet melts, sea levels will rise 23… — Lester R. Brown Copy Share Image
“Silence. It flashed from the woodwork and the walls; it smote him with an awful, total power, as if generated by a… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
Civilization, in fact, grows more maudlin and hysterical; especially under democracy it tends to degenerate into a mere combat of crazes; the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In one of my latest conversations with Darwin he expressed himself very gloomily on the future of humanity, on the ground that… — Alfred Russel Wallace Copy Share Image
It could be that at some earlier time, somewhere in the universe, a civilization evolved by probably some kind of Darwinian means… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Poland is not East or West. Poland is at the center of European civilization. It has contributed mightily to that civilization. It… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
That's what civilization sometimes did to threats, real or perceived. They walled them off. Us against them. Survival of the fittest. You… — David Baldacci Copy Share Image
Liberty is the condition of progress. Without Liberty, there remains only barbarism. Without Liberty, there can be no civilization. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
If a test of civilization be sought, none can be so sure as the condition of that half of society over which… — Harriet Martineau Copy Share Image
Love as a concrete foundation for an authentically functional civilization requires the around-the-clock labors of forgiveness. Without it, Love fails, Friendship fails,… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
In the last analysis civilization itself is measured by the way in which children will live and what chance they will have… — Mary Heaton Vorse Copy Share Image
Civilization no longer needs to open up wilderness; it needs wilderness to help open up the still largely unexplored human mind. — David Wallace Copy Share Image
Our civilization is still in a middle stage, no longer wholly guided by instinct, not yet wholly guided by reason. — AB Copy Share Image
A civilization that only looks inward will stagnate. We have to keep looking outward; we have to keep finding new avenues for… — John L. Phillips Copy Share Image
Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
In practice, the ocean is the world's wildest place because of both its fearsome natural danger and how easy it is out… — Rose George Copy Share Image
“You didn't find any trace of her?" asked d'Arnot. // Tarzan shook his head. "None. In the jungle, I could have found… — Edgar Rice Burroughs Copy Share Image
Humiliating to human pride as it may be, we must recognize that the advance and even the preservation of civilization are dependent… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
“Modern civilisation has based its specific foundation on the principle of liberty which states that man is not a mere instrument to… — Altiero Spinelli Copy Share Image
Gorillas are almost altruistic in nature. There's very little if any 'me-itis.' When I get back to civilization I'm always appalled by… — Dian Fossey Copy Share Image
Debt is part of the human condition. Civilization is based on exchanges - on gifts, trades, loans - and the revenges and… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
