I am studying ancient civilizations, trying to find what happened to them, finding out why they went into a decline, why they… — L. Ron Hubbard Copy Share Image
“Modern civilization has become so complex and the lives of civilized men so interwoven with the lives of other men in other… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“Any nation that wishes to enjoy the fruits of development and civilization, must follow the golden rules of this scripture as a… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
Is man’s civilization only a wrappage, through which the savage nature of him can still burst, infernal as ever? — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Simple practices like conscious breathing and smiling are very important. They can change our civilization. — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
“Wake up you must, and step up you must, not should, but must, for only then, can an animal world be changed… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Unless there is a vast alteration in manís civilization as it stumbles along today,man will not be here very long. — L Ron Hubbard Copy Share Image
Poetry is one of the essential structures of civilization - carrying myth, ritual, 'tales of the tribe' and the essence of language. — Diane Wakoski Copy Share Image
For me, and for thousands with similar inclinations, the most important passion of life is the overpowering desire to escape periodically from… — Bob Marshall Copy Share Image
...if we want to meet the obligations of our civilization and our culture which are to create communities for our children that… — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
Great civilizations have annihilated themselveswhen the development of their spiritual wisdom lagged far behind their scientific technology. We need to walk softly,… — Mary Summer Rain Copy Share Image
“In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for… — Lee Iacocca Copy Share Image
“We only refer to sapient creatures as civilized when their society is willingly self-correcting. That means that any problem or imbalance that… — J.Z. Colby Copy Share Image
Ah, there's nothing like tea in the afternoon. When the British Empire collapses, historians will find that it had made but two… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Civilization has not ever been the brother of equality. Freedom was born among the wild eyries in the mountains; and barbarous tribes… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
When individuals are established in universal consciousness, they live the scientific reality of the unity of life spontaneously in accord with all… — John Hagelin Copy Share Image
“This revolutionary idea of Western citizenship—replete with ever more rights and responsibilities—would provide superb manpower for growing legions and a legal framework… — Victor Davis Hanson Copy Share Image
“What was it like then to witness the transformation wrought by this construction? A geometric idea of precision suddenly imposed on a… — Susan Griffin 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
Chief among our gains must be reckoned this possibility of choice, the recognition of many possible ways of life, where other civilizations… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
“It was civilization itself which inflicted this wound upon modern man. Once the increase of empirical knowledge, and more exact modes of… — Friedrich von Schiller Copy Share Image
Civilization is based on a clearly defined and widely accepted yet often unarticulated hierarchy. Violence done by those higher on the hierarchy… — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
Even in this place one can survive, and therefore one must want to survive, to tell the story, to bear witness; and… — Primo Levi Copy Share Image
“Civilization is always threatened from below, by patterns of belief and emotion that may once have been useful to our ancestors, but… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
“The fact that Man is Nature’s perverse instantiation can only lead to the appalling conclusion that Man, too, is some kind of… — Stephan Attia Copy Share Image
The peoples furthest from civilization are the ones where equality between man and woman are furthest apart-and we consider this one of… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The first person who decided to say a word instead of throwing a rock can be considered the starter of civilization — Hussein Nishah Copy Share Image
Comedy speaks for civilization; farce bears an ill-concealed, sometimes unconcealed animus against civilization. Often against civility too. — Irving Howe Copy Share Image
Thousands of years and many civilizations have defined a marriage as the union between one man and one woman. With few exceptions,… — Randy Neugebauer Copy Share Image
Love of liberty means the guarding of every resource that makes freedom possible-from the sanctity of our families and the wealth of… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
I think fundamentalism is this radical attitude toward one's own identity and civilization as compared to other people's identities and cultures. — Samuel P. Huntington Copy Share Image
There's never been a civilization, ever in history, that has embraced homosexuality and turned away from traditional fidelity and traditional marriage, traditional… — Pat Roberts Copy Share Image
“Civilization is diaphanous: a dazzling display, beautiful, a brilliant golden orb of order and geometric precision. But just touch it lightly and… — David Grant Urban Copy Share Image
Right now we're working on finishing up Pirates! for the Xbox, we're developing Civilization IV and we've got a couple other games… — Sid Meier Copy Share Image
Rome is the one great spiritual organisation which is able to resist and must, as a matter of life and death, the… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
Civilization has run on ahead of the soul of man, and is producing faster than he can think and give thanks. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe.… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
It is always the moralists who do the most harm. Abortion is the logical outcome of civilization, only the jungle gives birth… — Max Frisch Copy Share Image
The mind left to itself creates monstrosities, and not only in art galleries. Look at our urban landscapes and industrial wastelands. No… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image