Money no longer has any meaning. Civilization is coming to an end. If not the destruction of the world, it's an endless… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
My idea of our civilization is that it is a shoddy, poor thing and full of cruelties, vanities, arrogances, meannesses and hypocrisies. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
People are willing to throw our civilization under the bus to discredit the existing system, without any proposed solution to the problems… — Jay Roach Copy Share Image
In the midst of our applauding the feats of civilization, the Bible flings itself like a knife slashing our complacency; remind us… — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share Image
“I wouldn't mind a bit seeing all civilization crumble like a mason's scaffolding before the building was finished--” — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
There's people who actually have a whole science devoted to what makes a sticky meme and that idea of that question of… — Jay Roach Copy Share Image
No successful civilization prior to the 21st century has ever provided legal preferences for same-sex relationships. — Mike Johnson Copy Share Image
A riot's unchecked destruction of livelihoods and property is certainly newsworthy, threatening as it does the very possibility of civilization. — Heather Mac Donald Copy Share Image
A commercial civilization is money-oriented, profit-oriented. Commercial values always tend to wrench a society free of tradition.Economics from education to public service… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
Margaret Mead was both a student of civilization and an exemplar of it. To a public of millions, she brought the central… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
The keynote of American civilization is a sort of warm-hearted vulgarity. The Americans have none of the irony of the English, none… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
I can hardly believe what these 12 caricatures [about Prophet Muhammad] have caused in the world. We Danes feel like we have… — Anders Fogh Rasmussen Copy Share Image
Wine is one of the most civilized things in the world and one of the most natural things of the world that… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
There are people accusing me that I'm sick, that I'm a danger to morals, western civilization and basically everything under the sun.… — Marilyn Manson Copy Share Image
It is an awesome thing to comprehend the magnitude of the fact that what a human being dreams and imagines can be… — Vanna Bonta Copy Share Image
The world generally speaking is now drifting on a more and more devastating course towards the absurd target of extermination - or… — Alva Myrdal Copy Share Image
In the west, Apollo and Dionysus strive for victory. Apollo makes the boundary lines that are civilization but that lead to convention,… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Wars between states and people seem to have existed under all historical systems for as long as we have some recorded evidence.… — Immanuel Wallerstein Copy Share Image
The most outstanding characteristic of Eastern civilization is to know contentment, whereas that of Western civilization is not to know contentment. Contented… — Hu Shih Copy Share Image
Cruelty, very far from being a vice, is the first sentiment Nature injects in us all. The infant breaks his toy, bites… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
We are somehow the children of the planet, we are somehow its finest hour; we bind time, we bind the past, we… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The arts and sciences, in general, during the three or four last centuries, have had a regular course of progressive improvement. The… — John Adams 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
The highest test of the civilization of any race is in its willingness to extend a helping hand to the less fortunate. — Booker T. Washington Copy Share Image
The reason renewables can't power modern civilization is because they were never meant to. One interesting question is why anybody ever thought… — Michael Shellenberger Copy Share Image
“Caius was one of those who gloried in his ignorance, called his lack of letters purity, scorned any subtlety of thought or… — Iain Pears Copy Share Image
In our present high state of civilization, people are so much alike, that anything at all odd comes on one with the… — Mary Russell Mitford Copy Share Image
Here among the constant ruins and rebuilding of civilizations lies the coexistence of diversity and intolerance. — David K. Shipler Copy Share Image
Now, being a POW certainly doesn't qualify anyone to be president. But it does reveal character. This is the kind of character… — Fred Thompson Copy Share Image
“You are so civilized. So polite. So brave coming here alone when you know no one here would dare to touch you.… — Ann Leckie Copy Share Image
If we were to place our power at the service of our imaginations rather than our primate politics we would create a… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Maybe they didn't want you to realize that every civilization has its weakness. There's always one thing we depend on. And if… — Scott Westerfeld Copy Share Image
A warming of this magnitude would risk the end of civilization as we know it by the end of this century. — Peter Barrett Copy Share Image
Probably, no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both. — Abraham Flexner Copy Share Image
There's no way that music could ever go down the tubes. I can't imagine a civilization without music. When you realize today… — Clive Davis Copy Share Image
No matter what we call it, poison is still poison, death is still death, and industrial civilization is still causing the greatest… — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
Muslims stand by their religion entirely. It is a sort of religious absolutism. While Europeans have stopped defending the values of their… — Bassam Tibi Copy Share Image
Funding a civilization through advertising is like trying to get nutrition by connecting a tube from one’s anus to one’s mouth. — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
What's true for us as individual humans is true for the civilization we create: a sprint culture, seeking ever greater speed and… — Ed Ayres Copy Share Image
![“I can hardly believe what these 12 caricatures [about Prophet Muhammad] have caused in the world. We Danes feel like we have been placed in a scene in the wrong movie. But I don't see the fight as a clash of civilizations. Rather, we must focus on avoiding exactly this type of conflict. We have to…” quote by Anders Fogh Rasmussen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8d8/anders-fogh-rasmussen-21056_acknowledgement_i-can-hardly-believe-what-these-12-caric_14933.png)
