If we don't cut carbon's money pipeline, we will pay for their gasoline with floods, droughts, fires, super storms, drowned cities, mass… — Robert F. Kennedy, Jr Copy Share Image
If men were ever to lose the appetite for meaning we call thinking, they would lose the capacity for asking all the… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Never before has a civilization reached such a degree of a contempt for life; never before has a generation, drowned in mortification,… — Raoul Vaneigem Copy Share Image
Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Never had there been such an attempt to make conquest the servant of civilization. About keeping India there is no question. England… — Goldwin Smith Copy Share Image
Every civilization sees itself as the center of the world and writes its history as the central drama of human history. — Samuel P. Huntington Copy Share Image
To the present writer a careful study of the facts now available seems to leave no doubt that civilization was born at… — James Henry Breasted Copy Share Image
“In the past, the strongest individual was chosen as the leader or ruler. But the concept of civilization has decided to give… — Mwanandeke Kindembo Copy Share Image
For several centuries Western civilization has had a drive for material accumulation, continual extensions of economic power, termed 'progress'...The longing for growth… — Gary Snyder Copy Share Image
More and more I come to value charity and love of one's fellow being above everything else...All our lauded technological progress-our very… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“To make the distinction unmistakably clear: Civilization is the vital force in human history; culture is that inert mass of institutions and… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Writing keeps me at my desk, constantly trying to write a perfect sentence. It is a great privilege to make one’s living… — John Banville Copy Share Image
There is often no material difference between the enjoyment of the highest ranks and those of the rudest stages of society. If… — Sir Archibald Alison, 2nd Baronet Copy Share Image
We need a government, not politics. Because there's too much politics. Of course there should be debate. But there seems to be… — Daphne Guinness Copy Share Image
Liberty is so great a magician, endowed with so marvelous a power of productivity, that under the inspiration of this spirit alone,… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
Whenever Nature's bounty is in danger of exhaustion, the chemist has sought for a substitute. The conquest of disease has made great… — Calvin Coolidge 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
“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
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
“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
“There is no literature and art without paranoia. Probably there would be even civilization. Paranoia is the world. It is the attempt… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
Yet, history has shown that if material force can defeat some ideologies it can no longer obliterate a civilization without destabilizing the… — Abdelaziz Bouteflika Copy Share Image
The way I think of my work is that I have to think up the way to tell a story, starting from… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
Malibu: With sounds of waves crashing, and the ocean at the doorstep, you feel like you are hours away from civilization. And… — Jennifer Harrison Copy Share Image
America seemed a virgin land waiting for civilization. But Europe had made the wilderness it found; America was not a virgin, she… — Ronald Wright Copy Share Image
Apart from the desire to produce beautiful things, the leading passion of my life has been and is hatred of modern civilization. — William Morris Copy Share Image
“Flushed with his impassioned gibberish, he saw himself standing alone on the last barrier of civilization.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
The lunatic's visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact. Our civilization is founded on the shambles, and… — William James Copy Share Image
What most people don't seem to realize is that there is just as much money to be made out of the wreckage… — Margaret Mitchell Copy Share Image
Iraq is no diversion. It is a place where civilization is taking a decisive stand against chaos and terror, we must not… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
Speech is civilization itself. The word, even the most contradictions word, preserves contact - it is silence which isolates. — Thomas E. Mann Copy Share Image
Since the same human mire remains beneath, does not all civilization reduce itself to the superiority of smelling nice and living well? — Emile Zola Copy Share Image
Civilizations evolve over time, and most scholars of civilization, including people like Carol Quigley, argue that they go through periods of warring… — Samuel P. Huntington Copy Share Image
Culture is the tacit agreement to let the means of subsistence disappear behind the purpose of existence. Civilization is the subordination of… — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
There is no clear or meaningful difference between insurgency and civil war, or between national terrorism and civil war for that matter. — Anthony H. Cordesman Copy Share Image
“There’s eight million people here pretending the others aren’t getting on their nerves. I believe it’s called civilization.” — Chris Cleave Copy Share Image
The future is in your hearts and in your hands. God is entrusting to you the task, at once difficult and uplifting,… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
Our fantastic civilization has fallen out of touch with many aspects of nature, and with none more completely than with night. — Henry Beston Copy Share Image
What makes human power erupt like a volcano? What destroy's it? The civilizations of Rome, Greece, Egypt, China were all eruptions from… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
