“All civilisation has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution.” — Havelock Ellis Copy Share Image
The city is the nerve center of our civilization. It is also the storm center, — Josiah Strong Copy Share Image
“What was civilization ever, really, but the attempt by man to talk himself into being good?” — Stanisław Lem Copy Share Image
Imagine what things would be like if the news media actually sided with civilization. — Glenn Reynolds Copy Share Image
The Net is the new underlying infrastructure for civilization itself. — David "Doc" Searls Copy Share Image
The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion. — Thomas Carlyle 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
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
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
Speech is civilization itself. The word, even the most contradictions word, preserves contact - it is silence which isolates. — Thomas E. Mann 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
The wind whips through the canyons of the American Southwest, and there is no one to hear it but us - a… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
If we want our civilization to survive, we have to watch for the extremes. We have to reclaim our morality, both individually… — Ali Sina Copy Share Image
The knowledge that refuge is available, when and if needed, makes the silent inferno of the desert more easily bearable. Mountains complement… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Look, I am a Palestinian elected representative from Jericho. If a Palestinian wants to sell his fruit anywhere in the West Bank,… — Saeb Erekat Copy Share Image
This topic brings me to that worst outcrop of herd life, the military system, which I abhor... This plague-spot of civilization ought… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
What interests me is to paint the kind of antisensitivity that impregnates modern civilization. I think art since Cezanne has become extremely… — Roy Lichtenstein Copy Share Image
“when civilization began, the gods who were worshipped—the focus of the act of being "religious"—were none other than the Anunnaki/Nefilim, who were… — Zecharia Sitchin Copy Share Image
No previous civilization has been able to achieve it, nor can we see even in the remote distance, that day of the… — Leon Pinsker Copy Share Image
What you of the CHOAM directorate seem unable to understand is that you seldom find real loyalties in commerce. ... Men must… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
Most historians accept that Egypt was a cradle of civilization, and that many cultural idioms and traditions come from there. What has… — Michael Tsarion Copy Share Image
Marriage is under attack from so many different areas. There should be benefits associated with married people. Life is unfair. Maybe you… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
“It is as if the soul of the continent is weeping. Why does it weep? It weeps for the bones of the… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Sometimes, when I drive across the desert in the middle of the night, with no other cars around, I start imagining: What… — Jack Handey Copy Share Image
. . .in August in Mississippi there’s a few days somewhere about the middle of the month when suddenly there’s a foretaste… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
Nations are beginning to look to some vague organization, some nebulous course of humanity, to pay their bills and tell them what… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
Every system tries to get people to conform to support that system. That goes for communism, socialism, free enterprise, or any other… — Jacque Fresco Copy Share Image
