Every civilization depends on the quality of the individuals it produces. If you over-organize humans, over-legalize them, suppress their urge to greatness-they… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
Our insatiable drive to rummage deep beneath the surface of the earth is a willful expansion of our dysfunctional civilization into Nature. — Al Gore Copy Share Image
Our great civilization, here in America and across the civilized world has come upon a moment of reckoning. — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
Well, we can't afford blindness anymore. There are tens of thousands of thugs who loathe liberty and love death, and want to… — Tony Snow Copy Share Image
Civilization depends on our expanding ability to produce food efficiently, which has markedly accelerated thanks to science and technology. — Nina Fedoroff Copy Share Image
To make the moral achievement implicit in science a source of strength to civilization, the scientist will have to have the cooperation… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Man lowers his head and lunges into civilization, forgetting the days of his infancy when he sought truth in a snowflake or… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
Civilizations come and go; they conquer the earth and crumble into dust; but faith survives every desolation. — Will Durant 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
We're becoming a planet of a thousand new major cities. The economy of the 21st century is a city-building economy. It's within… — Alex Steffen Copy Share Image
War is a biological necessity of the first importance, a regulative element in the life of mankind which cannot be dispensed with.… — Friedrich von Bernhardi Copy Share Image
There are indications because of new inventions, that 10, 15, or 20 nations will have a nuclear capacity, including Red China, by… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
We must ask whether our machine technology makes us proof against all those destructive forces which plagued Roman society and ultimately wrecked… — Robert Strausz-Hupe 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
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
The issue is whether the ultimate civil authority of the United States can tolerate actions in contempt of constitutional lines of authority.… — Harold Russell Copy Share Image
Radicals, on the other hand, want to advance from the jungle of laissez-faire capitalism to a world worthy of the name of… — Saul Alinsky Copy Share Image
BRAIN, n. An apparatus with which we think that we think. That which distinguishes the man who is content to be something… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
For all that we have done, as a civilization, as individuals, the universe is not stable, and nor is any single thing… — Richard K. Morgan Copy Share Image
Many atheistic books and blogs seethe with anger. Remarkably, the authors do not limit their anger to Christians. They seem most livid… — Randy Alcorn Copy Share Image
A contact with an extraterrestrial civilization is the greatest challenge for mankind in the Third Millennium. We would finally realize that we… — Michael Hesemann Copy Share Image
“It was unearthly, and the men were--No, they were not inhuman. Well, you know, that was the worst of it--this suspicion of… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
The secret of success is to realize that the crisis on our planet is much larger than just deciding what to do… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
At last, in the gray dawn of Civilization the fire in the Soul dies down. The dwindling powers rise to one more,… — Oswald Spengler Copy Share Image
It should not surprise us that there must be other civilizations in our galaxy and throughout the entire universe. — Robert K. G. Temple Copy Share Image
By nature, by necessity itself, [primitive man] is encyclopedic, while civilized man finds himself confined in the infinitely small regions of specialization. — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
I think civilization is going to get to a point where we suddenly become responsible, stewards of the whole evolutionary process. This… — Jean Houston Copy Share Image
Let us get together with other people of our sort and make over the world into a great world-civilization that will enable… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
“It ain't technology that enhances the civilization.. but the way mankind perceives nature from all standpoints.” — Toba Beta Copy Share Image
... it is a matter of civilizing everyone or not being civilized at all: the decay has always come from a partial civilization. — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
The vast upheaval of the World War set in motion forces that will either destroy civilization or raise mankind to undreamed of… — Arthur Henderson Copy Share Image
Technical civilization has made a great error in not suppressing death, the only human reality still intact — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
For nearly as long as civilization has existed, patriarchy - enforced through the rights of the firstborn son - has been the… — Hanna Rosin Copy Share Image
Culture is the tacit agreement to let the means of subsistence disappear behind the purpose of existence. — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
“Helen declared Western civilization's lack of understanding of other peoples' customs to be the world's greatest and gravest social problem.” — Lily King Copy Share Image
Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness: this triptych succinctly defines the attractiveness and superiority of Western civilization. — Ibn Warraq Copy Share Image
There is something silly about grown men and women striving to reduce their vision of themselves and of civilization to bean counting. — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
Practical application is found by not looking for it, and one can say that the whole progress of civilization rests on that… — Jacques Hadamard Copy Share Image
The longer I live and the more I study the question, the more I am convinced that it is not so much… — Booker T. Washington Copy Share Image
It's women who have embraced their own sexuality, it's why women wear makeup, it's why they wear high heels. It's what civilization… — Hugh Hefner Copy Share Image
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