An odd thing occurs in the minds of Americans when Indian civilization in mentioned: little or nothing. — Paula Gunn Allen Copy Share Image
“She suspected that civilization had been invented to make more stories. And” — Gardner R. Dozois Copy Share Image
“Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessaries.” — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
There can be no high civilization where there is not ample leisure. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
“Music and symbols, they're older than human race. Prehuman beings used them to teach early mankind.” — Toba Beta Copy Share Image
The Christian theory of the sacredness of the Bible has been at the cost of the world's civilization. — Matilda Joslyn Gage Copy Share Image
And I cried… for all of the women who stretched their bodies for civilizations, only to find ruins. — Sonia Sanchez Copy Share Image
“The purpose of a writer is to keep civilisation from destroying itself." (Interview, New York Post Magazine , September 14, 1958)” — Bernard Malamud Copy Share Image
By vulgarity I mean that vice of civilization which makes man ashamed of himself and his next of kin, and pretend to… — Solomon Schechter Copy Share Image
Back through the ages of barbarism and civilization, in all tongues, we find this instinctive pleasure in the imitative action that is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If we can change our priorities, achieve balance and understanding in our roles as human beings in a complex world, the coming… — Sigurd F. Olson Copy Share Image
Allen's Law of Civilization: It is better for civilization to be going down the drain than to be coming up it. — Paul Dickson Copy Share Image
A log cabin symbolized the embrace between civilization and nature, humans literally wrapping the trees around them as they might draw on… — Gene Logsdon Copy Share Image
The best security for civilization is the dwelling, and upon properly appointed and becoming dwellings depends, more than anything else, the improvement… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
“There is every reason why the standards in our civilization are so low, because we have "poisoned," in a literal sense of… — Alfred Korzybski Copy Share Image
There is a dichotomy between people who feel economic principles should order human civilization and people who believe humanitarian principles should order… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
They have an amazing proliferation of TV channels now: The all-cartoon channel, the 24-hour-science fiction channel. Of course, to make room for… — Dennis Miller Copy Share Image
Averageness is a quality we must put up with. Men march toward civilization in column formation, and by the time the van… — Frank Moore Colby Copy Share Image
I know something about the civilization of China, with my background, obviously, and I think I know something about American history. But… — I. M. Pei Copy Share Image
I was always interested in the larger picture, I was pre-law in college, and had a degree in economics. I was very… — Jay Roach Copy Share Image
Our use of the phrase 'The Dark Ages' to cover the period from 600 to 1000 marks our undue concentration on Western… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
As you know we are facing the end of the Western Civilization by having a market based strategy, we are bringing Western… — Kathleen Sebelius Copy Share Image
Pessimism is a product of our civilization. It is not natural to the savage; he feels pain, or discomfort, and suffers from… — Arthur Lynch Copy Share Image
Without undervaluing any other human agency, it may be safely affirmed that the Common School, improved and energized, as it can easily… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
We might as well expect to grow trees from leaves as hope to build up a civilization or a manhood without taking… — Anna Julia Cooper Copy Share Image
“For some time there was a widely held notion (zealously fostered by the daily press) to the effect that the 'thinking ocean'… — Stanislaw Lem 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
“Civilizations are the generations of the racial soul. As family-rearing, and then writing, bound the generations together, handing down the lore of… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
“The year 2100 will see eugenics universally established. In past ages, the law governing the survival of the fittest roughly weeded out… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
“The earliest use of writing was strictly commercial and economic, not political or bureaucratic. It was trade, entrepreneurship, and stewardship of private… — Jakub Bożydar Wiśniewski Copy Share Image
“What is word for good together living? Nobody shits in the well?" I laughed. "Civilization?" He nodded, splaying his fingers: amusement. "Yes,"… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
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