“Civilization is built by the artist, by the literary exponent, by the ability to generate beauty and music and new methods of… — Irshad Manji Copy Share Image
We created a thing called culture and civilization, and now we're about to lose it because we're trying to destroy everything. And… — Yoko Ono Copy Share Image
Library Science is the key to all science, just as mathematics is its language - and civilization will rise or fall, depending… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Yes, Yes. Indians were the oldest civilization on Earth, the greatest, the best. And only Indians had culture. Others were all dumb… — Manu Joseph Copy Share Image
You may as well know, also, that every great leader, from the dawn of civilization down to the present, was a dreamer. — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
If the Negro is not careful he will drink in all the poison of modern civilization and die from the effects of… — Marcus Garvey Copy Share Image
The Battle of France is over. The Battle of Britain is about to begin. Upon this battle depends the future of Christian… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Dining is the privilege of civilization. . . . The nation which knows how to dine has learnt the leading lesson of progress. — Isabella Beeton Copy Share Image
Civilization, stretching up to recognize that every child is a portion of State wealth, may presently make some movement to recognize maternity… — Miles Franklin Copy Share Image
... All questions concerning the rise of Christianity are one: How was it done? How did a tiny and obscure messianic movement… — Rodney Stark Copy Share Image
In a living civilization there is always an element of unrest, for sensitiveness to ideas means curiosity, adventure, change. Civilized order survives… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
The universal regard for money is the one hopeful fact in our civilization. Money is the most important thing in the world.… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Geology is part of that remarkable dynamic process of the human mind which is generally called science and to which man is… — Reinout Willem van Bemmelen Copy Share Image
Within the memory of many of my townsmen the road near which my house stands resounded with the laugh and gossip of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
An unhurried mind brings the capacity to make wise choices every day - choices of how we use our time, of where… — Eknath Easwaran Copy Share Image
“Among peoples who possess a highly developed pugnacious instinct we find the greatest progress in the arts, sciences, social and political organization,… — Holly Estil Cunningham Copy Share Image
“I looked down at this city, this civilization, and I realized just how little I really knew about a world where there… — M.B. Julien Copy Share Image
The story of civilization is, in a sense, the story of engineering-that long and arduous struggle to make the forces of nature… — L. Sprague de Camp Copy Share Image
Next to the striking of fire and the discovery of the wheel, the greatest triumph of what we call civilization was the… — Max Lerner Copy Share Image
I do not believe that civilizations have to die because civilization is not an organism. It is a product of wills. — Arnold J. Toynbee Copy Share Image
We released 400,000 classified documents, the most extraordinary history of a war to ever have been released in our civilization. Those documents… — Julian Assange Copy Share Image
How much modern civilization has lost, I think, when they lost the awareness of the billions of stars overhead. — Christopher Pike Copy Share Image
Are the worst enemies of society those who attack it or those who do not even give themselves the trouble of defending… — Gustave Le Bon Copy Share Image
I reject the idea that there is some sort of existential "clash of civilizations." I am an interventionist, but not a militarist.… — Bernard-Henri Levy Copy Share Image
“For most of the history of civilization, the practice of slavery was the rule rather than the exception.” — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
“I could scarcely summon courage to rise. But even those large, venomous snakes were less dreadful to my imagination than the white… — Harriet Ann Jacobs Copy Share Image
While civilization has been improving our houses, it has not equally improved the men who are to inhabit them. It has created… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Anybody who knows something about the history of the human race knows that there is no civilization which has condoned homosexual marriage… — Todd Akin Copy Share Image
Art is a staple of mankind... So urgent, so utterly linked with the pulse of feeling that it becomes the singular sign… — Jamake Highwater Copy Share Image
Mankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
There is an old saying that the course of civilization is a race between catastrophe and education. In a democracy such as… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Judeo-Christian revelation is not the negative influence secularists proclaim it to be. Rather, it is the taproot of our civilization. — Charles Colson Copy Share Image
The possibility of reduced-time interstellar travel either by advanced extraterrestrial civilizations at present or ourselves in the future, is not fundamentally constrained… — Harold E. Puthoff Copy Share Image
We seem to be trapped by a civilization that has accelerated many physical aspects of evolution but has forgotten that other vital… — Sybil Leek Copy Share Image
Ancient Egypt was a Negro Civilization. The history of Black Africa will remain suspended in air and cannot be written correctly until… — Cheikh Anta Diop Copy Share Image
From India to Spain, the brilliant civilization of Islam flourished. What was lost to christendom at this time was not lost to… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
One might enumerate the items of high civilization, as it exists in other countries, which are absent from the texture of American… — Henry James Copy Share Image
To be thoroughly lazy is a tough job, but somebody has to do it. Industrious people build industry. Lazy people build civilization. — Kazuaki Tanahashi Copy Share Image
We may be sure that out of the ruins of our capitalist civilization a new religion will emerge, just as Christianity emerged… — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
Triumphant science and technology are only at the threshold of man's command over sources of energy so stupendous that, if used for… — Cordell Hull Copy Share Image
