Civilization means, above all, an unwillingness to inflict unnecessary pain ... those of us who heedlessly accept the commands of authority cannot… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Bombs fall and wipe out civilization as we know it, two things come up out of the ashes: roaches and F-150s. — James Sallis Copy Share Image
Every two days now we create as much information as we did from the dawn of civilization up until 2003. — Eric Schmidt Copy Share Image
“Just like how most if not all poor boys look up to and aspire to someday be rich men, most if not… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“There is no way I can avoid thinking about the kind of world I belong to. The abuse of utopias disfigures everything.” — Floriano Martins Copy Share Image
Without adventure all civilization is full of decay. Adventure rarely reaches its predetermined end. Columbus never reached China. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
We have always created - music, literature, art, dance. The art around us - or lack of it - may be a… — Frank Gehry Copy Share Image
I have, for many years past, contemplated the noble races of red men who are now spread over these trackless forests and… — George Catlin Copy Share Image
We must seek support in the moral values that have ensured the progress of our civilization. Honesty and hard work, responsibility and… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
Each man has an equal social right to multiply his power of motion by all the social factors of civilization. Private property… — Daniel De Leon Copy Share Image
We're headed for what is called Type 1 Civilization, planetary civilization. Type 2 would be stellar civilization, like Star Trek. Type 3… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
Philosophers have actually devoted themselves, in the main, neither to perceiving the world, nor to spinning webs of conceptual theory, but to… — Josiah Royce Copy Share Image
We strain to tell Americans and aliens in this country that there's nothing unique about America, nothing unique about American civilization, nothing… — Tom Tancredo Copy Share Image
Someone once said that taxes are the price we pay for civilization. That may have been true when he said it, but… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
“The fiendlike skill we display in the invention of all manner of death-dealing engines, the vindictiveness with which we carry on our… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Unless modern civilization is a failure, it is entirely feasible and practicable for two races in such essential political, economic and religious… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
One difference between savagery and civilization is a little courtesy. There's no telling what a lot of courtesy would do. — Cullen Hightower Copy Share Image
Colonialism subdues in many dulcet guises. It conquered under the pretext of spreading Christianity, civilization, law and order, to make the world… — F. Sionil Jose Copy Share Image
Western civilization shapes the content of my films, provides me with subjects that haven't been used before. — Eric Rohmer Copy Share Image
For if we take the ages into our account, may there not be a civilization going on among brutes as well as… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Civilization has been thrust upon me... and it has not added one whit to my love for truth, honesty, and generosity. — Luther Standing Bear Copy Share Image
History shows us that other highly developed forms of civilization have collapsed. Who knows whether the same fate does not await our… — Christian Lous Lange Copy Share Image
The whole idea of civilization as an understandable narrative is a bit nuts. It's the most problematic of delusions. — Carey Mercer Copy Share Image
Those who admire modern civilization usually identify it with the steam engine and the electric telegraph. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Of all nations, those submit to civilization with the most difficulty which habitually live by the chase. — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
It is still an act of academic heresy to regard Egypt as the cradle of civilization and originator of Jewish and Christian… — Michael Tsarion Copy Share Image
On a group of theories one can found a school; but on a group of values one can found a culture, a… — Ignazio Silone Copy Share Image
Cities have always been the fireplaces of civilization, whence light and heat radiated out into the dark. — Theodore Parker Copy Share Image
We must reject the idea of isolationism, . But that doesn't mean we should get involved in every civil war around the world. — Dan Quayle Copy Share Image
If we can combine our knowledge of science with the wisdom of wildness, if we can nurture civilization through roots in the… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
We want women leaders today as never before. Leaders who are not afraid to be called names and who are willing to… — Emily Murphy Copy Share Image
I count myself a a rationalist and a skeptic with a very conscious awareness of my indebtedness to Western Christian civilization, and… — John Rhys-Davies Copy Share Image
But you have to understand, my beard is so nasty. I mean, it's the only beard in the history of Western civilization… — Bill Walton Copy Share Image
The history of America is the history of a genocide that didn't end yet, the genocide of American civilizations. — Luiz Bolognesi Copy Share Image
What is the thread of western civilization that distinguished its course in history? It has to do with the preoccupation of western… — Arthur Erickson Copy Share Image
In the end what will happen will be what has happened whenever a civilization breaks up. The people who have brains and… — Margaret Mitchell Copy Share Image
It will be a gay world. There will be lights everywhere except in the minds of men, and the fall of the… — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
If it should turn out that we have mishandled our own lives as several civilizations before us have done, it seems a… — Loren Eiseley Copy Share Image
In order for us to have a future that's exciting and inspiring, it has to be one where we're a space-bearing civilization. — Elon Musk Copy Share Image
Tenderness has created the first 'social order' - that of the mother with her offspring. Through motherliness, woman later makes her great… — Ellen Key Copy Share Image
