“The mark of the truly civilized is their (truly baffling to the likes of you and me) patience with what truly baffles.” — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
“Nations rise and fall, flourish and decay, by what they believe in and by what their culture stands for.” — Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha Copy Share Image
The world no longer has a choice between force and law; if civilization is to survive, it must choose the rule of… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
what about Christianity? Are we right in the face of so long a record of its poverty in international achievement, to keep… — Rose Macaulay Copy Share Image
She was so evidently the victim of the civilization which had produced her, that the links of her bracelet seemed like manacles… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
Who are we to say what's right for civilizations that were already thousands of years old when our own nation came into… — Unita Blackwell Copy Share Image
It is not funny that a man should be killed, but it is sometimes funny that he should be killed for so… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
I would suggest that barbarism be considered as a permanent and universal human characteristic which becomes more or less pronounced according to… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
Many people say I believe aliens built the pyramids. I don't. In fact I'm not a supporter of the 'ancient alien' hypothesis… — Graham Hancock Copy Share Image
You cannot take any people, of any color, and exempt them from the requirements of civilization - including work, behavioral standards, personal… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
God...should never have been expelled from America's schools. As we struggle to teach our children...we dare not forget that our civilization was… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
They offer me neither food nor drink - intellectual nor spiritual consolation... [Conservatism] leads nowhere; it satisfies no ideal; it conforms to… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
It is dangerous it seems to me for a civilization when there is a complete abyss betewen people in general and the… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
I had a map on my wall that had a circle around Lubbock and then giant arrows pointing toward New York City… — Barry Corbin Copy Share Image
The differences between people need not act as barriers that wound, harm and drive us apart. Rather, these very differences among cultures… — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
Human life is an extension of the principles of nature, and human civilization is a venture extrapolated out of human natures: man… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
We are not a civilized country if we can read in a newspaper what a lady tells her boyfriend or husband. — Silvio Berlusconi Copy Share Image
Terrorism thrives on a free society. The terrorist uses the feelings in a free society to sap the will of civilization to… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
I have a fascination with Egypt. It's the greatest civilization. When the rest of the world was still in darkness, there were… — Montel Vontavious Porter Copy Share Image
The greatest task before civilization at present is to make machines what they ought to be, the slaves, instead of the masters… — Havelock Ellis Copy Share Image
We think we've got it taken care of now. Multiplayer is something that's hard to do in a turn-based game, especially a… — Sid Meier Copy Share Image
If we don't change, if the egoic consciousness continues, I don't believe that humanity as a species can survive, or at least… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“Behind every civilization lies a vision and a worldview, and none is greater or more lasting than the strength of its vision.” — Os Guinness Copy Share Image
I know about technology, about research, scientific applications, culture, civilization, differences between nations of the world, the nature of history. — Mohammed Morsi Copy Share Image
“The true test of civilization is not the census, nor the size of the cities, nor the crops – no, but the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There is no fundamental difference in the ways of thinking of primitive and civilized man. A close connection between race and personality… — Franz Boas Copy Share Image
A German immersed in any civilization different from his own loses a weight equivalent in volume to the amount of intelligence he… — Jose Bergamin Copy Share Image
In my mind nothing is more abhorrent than a life of ease. None of us has any right to ease. There is… — Henry Ford Copy Share Image
The only actual solution is the eventual collapse and demise of civilization... I think it needs to happen, but no one, not… — Andy Hurley Copy Share Image
“Civilization is like air or water. Wherever there is a passage, be it only a fissure, it will penetrate and modify the… — Jules Verne Copy Share Image
A slight daily unconscious luxury is hardly ever wanting to the dwellers in civilization; like the gentle air of a genial climate,… — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
Capitalism inevitably and by virtue of the very logic of its civilization creates, educates and subsidizes a vested interest in social unrest. — Joseph A. Schumpeter Copy Share Image
As civilization has become more complex, and as the need for invisible government has been increasingly demonstrated, the technical means have been… — Edward Bernays Copy Share Image
As the publisher of the 'Tory,' I strive to defend the pillars of Western civilization against the distractions of diversity. — Pete Hegseth Copy Share Image
One civilization after another has been wrecked upon the attempt to secure sufficient leadership from a single group or class. — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
In a culture that gives men irresponsible power and women powerless responsibility, the advancement of civilization cannot be a serious goal. — Mary Blakely Copy Share Image
It is the business of future to be dangerous… The major advances in civilization are processes that all but wreck the societies… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Despite all the progress of civilization, women have remained exactly as they emerged from the hand of Nature. — Leopold von Sacher-Masoch Copy Share Image
Over-civilization and barbarism are within an inch of each other. And a mark of both is the power of medicine-men. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
All through history, a nation or a civilization's enduring glory is articulated by its mega constructions - the pyramids, the lofty cathedrals… — F. Sionil Jose Copy Share Image
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