There is no escaping this fight. It is civilization or Jihadism. We can and should debate tactics; but the sides are clear… — Andrew Sullivan Copy Share Image
“No civilization has survived forever. All move toward dissolution, one after the other, like waves of the sea falling upon the shore.… — Douglas Preston Copy Share Image
Modern civilization is complicated and artificial. Simple folk live in a world of love and peace. Let no one hate another or… — Sivananda Copy Share Image
He felt himself in suspension between the two worlds, the warm, neat civilization behind his back, the cool, dark mystery outside. We… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
The debris of civilization litters the landscapes and spoils the beaches. Conservation's concerns now is not only for man's enjoyment-but for man's… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
No one sex can govern alone. I believe that one of the reasons why civilization has failed so lamentably is that is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is what you do from now on that will either move our civilization forward a few tiny steps, or else... begin… — Patrick Stewart Copy Share Image
It [is of] some advantage to live a primitive and frontier life, though in the midst of an outward civilization, if only… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
To rescue from oblivion even a fragment of a language which men have used and which is in danger of being lost… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
I should like to say that I am as proud of my Chinese heritage and background as I am devoted to modern… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“A civilization, when the moment has come for crowds to acquire a high hand over it, is at the mercy of too… — Gustave Le Bon Copy Share Image
No matter how much restriction civilization imposes on the individual, he nevertheless finds some way to circumvent it. Wit is the best… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Real Freedom is to not feel limited when wearing this Zen robe, this troublesome formal robe. Similarly, in our busy life we… — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share Image
I was watching a collection of vintage '80s cereal commercials when I paused to wonder why cereal manufacturers no longer included toy… — Ernest Cline Copy Share Image
People often ask how I can reject the phrase 'woman writer' and not reject the phrase 'Jewish writer' - a preposterous question.… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
While the West tries to turn its civilization into cultural variety hour, Islam tries to turn Muslim lands into a cultural monolith.… — Ben Shapiro Copy Share Image
“We evolved haphazardly within a random universe; no purpose underpins us, no God watches over us, and no assured glorious future awaits… — Colin Feltham Copy Share Image
The reward of commercial civilization is the ability to consume a never-ending array of products.There are limits beyond which commodities cannot be… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
One of the greatest challenges facing civilization in the twenty-first century is for human beings to learn to speak about their deepest… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
Modern civilization is largely devoted to the pursuit of the cult of delusion. There is no general information about the nature of… — Sogyal Rinpoche Copy Share Image
From my childhood it has been my conviction that men would reach the planets in my lifetime . . . this conviction… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
“How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
During my span of life science has become a matter of public concern and the l'art pour l'art standpoint of my youth… — Max Born Copy Share Image
Will not perhaps the temporal power of Islam return and with it the menace of an armed Mohammedan world, which will shake… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
To one who believes that really good industrial conditions are the hope for a machine civilization, nothing is more heartening than to… — Frances Perkins Copy Share Image
I believe with all my heart that civilization has produced nothing finer than a man or woman who thinks and practices true… — Frank Knox Copy Share Image
“All culture, whatever significance it may have, just as all education, civilization, development, is absolutely powerless to renew the inner man.” — Herman Bavinck Copy Share Image
When I go biking, I am mentally far far away from civilization. The world is breaking someone else's heart. — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
The crimes of extreme civilization are probably worse than those of extreme barbarism, because of their refinement, the corruption they presuppose, and… — Jules Amedee Barbey d'Aurevilly Copy Share Image
I've managed to dodge the curse. Not all my family have. Of course, music helped me - music is all about civilization,… — Gordon Getty Copy Share Image
The great menace of civilization in the present is that we offer an education with too little regard for the roots. — Vincent Massey Copy Share Image
The measure of any great civilization is its cities and a measure of a city's greatness is to be found in the… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
It's a weird curse, when you think about it. We're built for thought, and civilization, more than any other creature we've found.… — Josh Bazell Copy Share Image
“back home.. the tablecloth of civilization makes us forget the already painted pine it covers! ([50], Zenith trans.)” — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
One could surely argue that the Buddhist tradition, taken as a whole, represents the richest source of contemplative wisdom that any civilization… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
It is impossible to maintain civilization with 12-year-olds having babies, with 15-year-olds killing each other, with 17-year-olds dying of AIDS and with… — Newt Gingrich Copy Share Image
In a dying civilization, political prestige is the reward not of the shrewdest diagnostician, but of the man with the best bedside… — Eric Ambler Copy Share Image
Listen, I have been educated. I have learned about Western Civilization. Do you know What the message of Western Civilization is? I… — Eileen Myles Copy Share Image
“Help anyone who comes to you, as much as lies in your power, not because you are good person, nor because you… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
A civilization is complicated, in the first place, because it is dynamic; that is, it is constantly changing in the passage of… — Carroll Quigley Copy Share Image
![“It [is of] some advantage to live a primitive and frontier life, though in the midst of an outward civilization, if only to learn what are the gross necessities of life.” quote by Henry David Thoreau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9b5/henry-david-thoreau-20_advantage_it-is-of-some-advantage-to-live-a-primit_2761655.jpg)
![“back home.. the tablecloth of civilization makes us forget the already painted pine it covers! ([50], Zenith trans.)” quote by Fernando Pessoa](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/00d/fernando-pessoa-177_civilization_back-home-the-tablecloth-of-civilization_388379.jpg)
