Love is the spirit of life unto the adorned body of mankind, the establisher of true civilization in this mortal world, and… — Abdu'l-Bahá Copy Share Image
Artists are the gatekeepers of truth. We are civilization’s anchor. We are the compass for humanity’s conscience. — Harry Belafonte Copy Share Image
The personal life of every individual is based on secrecy, and perhaps it is partly for that reason that civilized man is… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
We can tentatively credit capitalist civilization with a positive, if very geographically uneven, record in the struggle against disease. — Immanuel Wallerstein Copy Share Image
The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers. — William James Copy Share Image
Modern technology has become a total phenomenon for civilization, the defining force of a new social order in which efficiency is no… — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty ones. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
For an America of wisdom that honors the family, knowing that if the family goes, so goes our civilization. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
If we would reach a degree of civilization higher and grander than any yet attained, we should welcome to our ample continent… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
Clearly, mythology is no toy for children. Nor is it a matter of archaic, merely scholarly concern, of no moment to modern… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
He would see civilization in danger of perishing under the oppression of a gigantic paradox: he would see multitudes of people starving… — Arthur Henderson Copy Share Image
Ants can live together in solidarity and forget themselves in the community. In a normative capitalist society, everyone is an egoist. In… — Bernard Werber Copy Share Image
“Our Western Civilization is in its death throes right now. We cannot stop the wheel from turning; ergo, we cannot save Western… — Richard Scutari Copy Share Image
By 3000 B.C. the art of Egypt was so ripe and so far advanced that it is surprising to find any student… — James Henry Breasted Copy Share Image
Artificial intelligence will reach human levels by around 2029. Follow that out further to, say, 2045, we will have multiplied the intelligence,… — Ray Kurzweil Copy Share Image
I have to bring to your notice a terrifying reality: with the development of nuclear weapons Man has acquired, for the first… — Joseph Rotblat Copy Share Image
Take off all your clothes and walk down the street waving a machete and firing an Uzi, and terrified citizens will phone… — Mike Nichols Copy Share Image
Without the institution of slavery, civilization would never have been achieved, for no one could ever have done anything intellectual if he… — Jeff Cooper Copy Share Image
Almost as swiftly as he had imagined it, she had torn her clothes off, and when she flung them aside it was… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
And we owe science to the combined energies of individual men of genius, rather than to any tendency to progress inherent in… — Chauncey Wright Copy Share Image
Man — despite his artistic pretensions, his sophistication, and his many accomplishments — owes his existence to a six inch layer of… — Paul Harvey Copy Share Image
I believe that truth is the glue that holds government together, not only our government, but civilization itself. — Gerald R. Ford Copy Share Image
The city is all right. To live in one Is to be civilized, stay up and read Or sing and dance all… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
A writer is justly called 'universal' when he is understood within the limits of his civilization, though that be bounded by a… — George Edward Woodberry Copy Share Image
“Civilization is a mutant beast that emerged from the shattered egg of primitive stability.-Sissy Hankshaw” — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“Name one civilization led by two people—a pair. It doesn’t happen. Do you know the fastest path to creating enemies? Forge a… — Veronica Rossi Copy Share Image
“The cities make ferocious men because they may corrupt man. The mountain, the sea, the forest, make savage men; they development fierce… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
The money-changers have fled from their high seats in the temple of our civilization. We may now restore that temple to the… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
All our lauded technological progress -- our very civilization - is like the axe in the hand of the pathological criminal. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
If our civilization is destroyed, it will not be by barbarians from below. Our barbarians come from above. — Henry Demarest Lloyd Copy Share Image
The fact remains that, if the supply of energy failed, modern civilization would come to an end as abruptly as does the… — Frederick Soddy Copy Share Image
Everywhere in the world the industrial regime tends to make the unorganized or unorganizable individual, the pauper, into the victim of a… — Jacques Maritain Copy Share Image
“It seems to me that you can almost define civilization by saying it's people who are not willing to hurt other people… — Gene Wolfe Copy Share Image
A good civilization gives the greatest possible scope to the common passions and makes them intelligible among the great number of people. — Meridel Le Sueur Copy Share Image
Beauty has no obvious use; nor is there any clear cultural necessity for it. Yet civilization could not do without it. — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Everything progresses in waves. The march of civilization, the progression of worlds, is in waves. All human activities likewise progress in waves… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Long before the advent of what scientists and scholars consider to be the beginning of human civilization, there was an age undreamed… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
When the French nation gradually came into existence among the ruins of the Roman civilization in Gaul, a new language was at… — Lytton Strachey Copy Share Image
She lives a sophisticate's life among worldly people. At the slightest excuse she steps out of civilization, naked and relieved, as I… — Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Copy Share Image
