“And it came to me as I stood on the desert sand, looking at the Great Pyramid, that what any civilization says… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“...the state should support art,construed not as amusement but as one of the chief carriers of civilization.” — Samuel Lipman Copy Share Image
The home is the most important factor in civilization, and that civilization is to be measured at different stages largely by the… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
“Civilized are not those who never make mistakes – civilized are those who learn from their mistakes instead of trying to justify them.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
I’ve met plenty of embarrassing parents, but Kronos, the evil Titan Lord who wanted to destroy Western Civilization? Not the kind of… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
Right now, there's the illusion of order and civilization, but there's a tremendous amount of economic tension in this country and the… — Kathryn Bigelow Copy Share Image
I think the health of our civilization, the depth of our awareness about the underpinnings of our culture, and our concern for… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Civilization has gotten further and further from the so-called 'natural' man, who uses all his faculties: perception, invention, improvisation. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
It is the individual only who is timeless. Societies, cultures, and civilizations -- past and present -- are often incomprehensible to outsiders,… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
The transnational corporations and the money markets have declared the era of human-designed regulations over. Now the market must reign. Because few… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
One of the most highly developed skills in contemporary Western civilization is dissection: the split -up of problems into their smallest possible… — Alvin Toffler Copy Share Image
In the face of an absolutely unprecedented emergency, society has no choice but to take dramatic action to avert a collapse of… — Gro Harlem Brundtland Copy Share Image
“This is the only time for high ideals because those ideals are all that we have. We aren't just fighting for our… — Max Brooks Copy Share Image
Loving Your Enemies... Far from being the pious injunction of a utopian dreamer, this demand is an absolute necessity for the survival… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
When we are in partnership and have stopped clutching each other's throats, when we have stopped enslaving each other, we will stand… — Eugene V. Debs Copy Share Image
The Second World War is the largest single event in human history, fought across six of the world's seven continents and all… — John Keegan Copy Share Image
We need to evolve and articulate a global ethics for a global civilization that integrates and evolves the passionate truths of every… — Marc Gafni Copy Share Image
Any civilization where the main symbol of religious veneration is a tool of execution is a bad place to have children. — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
But neither money nor machines can create. They shuttle tokens of energy, but they do not transform. A civilization based on them… — Lewis Hyde Copy Share Image
Civilization is a fiction which becomes a fact only as long as everyone can believe in it. It is the cynic, rather… — Helen McCloy Copy Share Image
Is it, perhaps, possible that there are two kinds of Civilization-one for home consumption and one for the heathen market? — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
We may get to the point where the only way of saving the world will be for industrial civilization to collapse. — Maurice Strong Copy Share Image
The human race is doomed to sink back farther and farther into the primitive night ere again it begins its bloody climb… — Jack London Copy Share Image
It is pretty well settled that the city is the Negro's great contribution to civilization, for it was in Africa where the… — E. Haldeman-Julius Copy Share Image
“Perhaps that is the greatest crime of conquest--that a civilization is denied the right to evolve beyond its own embarrassment.” — Neal Shusterman Copy Share Image
If history could teach us anything, it would be that private property is inextricably linked with civilization. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Self-righteous people can talk themselves into forgetting they are part of a civilization. They can then feed on that culture, bringing it… — David Brin Copy Share Image
History has been conceived--and with high justification in the records--as the human struggle for civilization against barbarism in different ages and places,… — Mary Ritter Beard Copy Share Image
When blacks are left entirely to their own devices, Western civilization—any kind of civilization—disappears. — Jared Taylor Copy Share Image
“During the first millennium BCE, even the beer-loving Mesopotamians turned their backs on beer, which was dethroned as the most cultured and… — Tom Standage Copy Share Image
By the time the Egyptian civilization had begun to flourish, the earth's aura had already become so dense it was impossible to… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Teachers must be celebrated for moving civilization from ignorance to enlightenment, from apathy to responsibility. — Sharon M. Draper Copy Share Image
The time is approaching when we shall consider it abhorrent to our civilization to allow a human being to die in prolonged… — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
The great question is, can war be outlawed from the world? If so, it would mark the greatest advance in civilization since… — Douglas MacArthur Copy Share Image
We must plant the sea and herd its animals using the sea as farmers instead of hunters. That is what civilization is… — Jacques Yves Cousteau Copy Share Image
The model of modern Western civilization is the virus: the pure bit of information, which turns its environment into endless reproductions of… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
I am well convinced that Aerial Navigation will form a most prominent feature in the progress of civilization. — George Cayley Copy Share Image
An important aspect of the Eurasian worldview is an absolute denial of Western civilization. In the opinion of the Eurasians, the West… — Aleksandr Dugin Copy Share Image
The science is in: either we go cold turkey on our coal, oil, and gas addictions, or we risk raising the planet's… — Richard Heinberg Copy Share Image
This [2016] is not simply another four-year election. This is a crossroads in the history of our civilization that will determine whether… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
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