“Revenge is a human trait, one that has been the cause of the destruction of civilisations many times over. But the goblins… — Count Anton Dance of the Goblins Copy Share Image
Chastity is the cement of civilization and progress. Without it there is no stability in society, and without it one cannot attain… — Mary Baker Eddy Copy Share Image
Every mob, in its ignorance and blindness and bewilderment, is a League of Frightened Men that seeks reassurance in collective action. — Max Lerner Copy Share Image
The transaction between writer and reader is human civilization's most dazzling feat, yet it's such a part of our lives that it's,… — Patricia T. O'Conner Copy Share Image
Through the wholesale destruction of the representatives of a class that from the beginning of history had been the directing and creative… — Ralph Adams Cram Copy Share Image
The things I believed in dont exist any more. It's foolish to pretend that they do. Western Civilization finally went up in… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
Some people think it's naive to think we can make love our new bottom line. What I believe is naive is thinking… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
At the root of our civilization, there is the freedom of each person of thought, of belief, of opinion, of work, of… — Charles de Gaulle Copy Share Image
I believe very firmly that indigenous populations had a really good, intuitive understanding of why we're here. And we're trying to gain… — Serj Tankian Copy Share Image
Further strengthenings of the self-centered instinct for survival recruit even greater numbers of people into some sort of ring of fellowship (church… — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share Image
If anything, todays patterns are beginning to resemble the multi-layered complexities of the high middle ages, and not simply as played out… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
We must have no carelessness in our dealings with public property or the expenditure of public money. Such a condition is characteristic… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
I look forward to an america in which commands respect throughout the world, not only for its strength, but for its civilization… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Freemasonry is an institution founded on eternal reason and truth; whose deep basis is the civilization of mankind, and whose everlasting glory… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If it is asserted that civilization is a real advance in the condition of man,--and I think that it is, though only… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“It takes hundreds of years of hard work to build a civilization, and yet with the press of a button we can… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“A hundred years of scholarly thinking has stretched back a million-fold the age of the Earth. But these same diviners, antiquarians and… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
Who could deny that privacy is a jewel? It has always been the mark of privilege, the distinguishing feature of a truly… — Phyllis McGinley Copy Share Image
“Politics bores you?" Bronsen said. Julien smiled. "It does. Apologies, sir, and it is not that I haven't tried to be fascinated.… — Iain Pears Copy Share Image
The human drama is reaching its denouement. The great unveiling is approaching, a time when the power structures of the world begin… — Anodea Judith Copy Share Image
“It is not a true civilization, and has nothing in it to satisfy a mature and fully developed human mind. It is… — H.P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
This truth may be unfashionable, unpalatable, no doubt unpopular, but, if it is the truth, the story of mankind shows that war… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Last evening attended Croghan Lodge International Order of Odd Fellows. Election of officers. Chosen Noble Grand. These social organizations have a number… — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
“What happened? It took Gibbon six volumes to describe the decline and fall of the Roman Empire, so I shan’t embark on… — Kenneth Clark Copy Share Image
The age in which we live can only be characterized as one of barbarism. Our civilization is in the process not only… — Alva Myrdal Copy Share Image
In perhaps 50 years, 60 years, we can finish completely this civilization, and offer to our children the possibility to invent a… — Philippe Starck Copy Share Image
I believe in courtesy. It is the way we avoid hurting people's feelings. She thought that maybe, just maybe, western civilization was… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Speech is civilization itself. The word, even the most contradictory word, preserves contact—it is silence which isolates.” — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
The Jews always complained, kvetching about false gods, and erected the biggest false God, Jehovah, in middle of western civilization. — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
Without adventure civilization is in full decay. ... The great fact [is] that in their day the great achievements of the past… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Cardinal Arithmetics is much older than Number Theory. People used to exchange things way before there were numbers. Expressing numbers like 762… — Saharon Shelah Copy Share Image
If the battle for civilization comes down to the wimps versus the barbarians, the barbarians are going to win. — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
When any civilization is dust and ashes," he said, "art is all that's left over. Images, words, music. Imaginative structures. Meaning—human meaning,… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
My theories explain, but cannot slow the decline of a great civilization. I set out to be a reformer, but only became… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
If mankind were to continue in other than the present barbarism, a new path must be found, a new civilization based on… — Clifford D. Simak Copy Share Image
Everybody thinks that this civilization has lasted a very long time but it really does take very few grandfathers' granddaughters to take… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
“Women provide the only true link to civilization. Men simply are not ruthless enough to survive on their own.” — Karen Hawkins Copy Share Image
“A civilized woman's demands: A man who will (1) make her come … sometimes; but (2) pay the bills … at all times.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Insects have their own point of view about civilization a man thinks he amounts to a great deal but to a flea… — Don Marquis Copy Share Image
I happen to be a big fan of Western civilization; I think it beats the hell out of tyranny and starvation. — Jordan Peterson Copy Share Image