I joined the British Army because she stood between Ireland and an enemy common to our civilization, and I would not have… — Francis Ledwidge Copy Share Image
“Isolationists believed that the ancient civilizations all developed independent of one another. Mesopotamia, the Indus Valley, China, Egypt—all crossed a threshold into… — Robert Doherty Copy Share Image
Civilization does not engross all the virtues of humanity: she has not even her full share of them. They flourish in greater… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Throughout the early Christian period, every great calamity - famine, earthquake, and plague - led to mass conversions, another indirect influence by… — Hans Zinsser Copy Share Image
Many of the greatest things man has achieved are not the result of consciously directed thought, and still less the product of… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
As I have said for many years throughout this land, we're borrowing money from China to buy oil from the Persian Gulf… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
Slowly but certainly the proletarian, by every political reform which secures his well-being under new rules of insurance, of State control in… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
“We live in a uniform civilization, within well-defined cultural models: furnishings, decorative elements, blankets, record player have all been chosen among a… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
I realized that If I had to choose, I would rather have birds than airplanes. In wilderness I sense the miracle of… — Charles Lindbergh 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
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
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
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
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
“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
“The fiendlike skill we display in the invention of all manner of death-dealing engines, the vindictiveness with which we carry on our… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Unless modern civilization is a failure, it is entirely feasible and practicable for two races in such essential political, economic and religious… — W. E. B. Du Bois 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
Wine is one of the most civilized things in the world and one of the most natural things of the world that… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
There are people accusing me that I'm sick, that I'm a danger to morals, western civilization and basically everything under the sun.… — Marilyn Manson Copy Share Image
The world generally speaking is now drifting on a more and more devastating course towards the absurd target of extermination - or… — Alva Myrdal Copy Share Image
It is an awesome thing to comprehend the magnitude of the fact that what a human being dreams and imagines can be… — Vanna Bonta Copy Share Image
For several centuries Western civilization has had a drive for material accumulation, continual extensions of economic power, termed 'progress'...The longing for growth… — Gary Snyder Copy Share Image
More and more I come to value charity and love of one's fellow being above everything else...All our lauded technological progress-our very… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
There is often no material difference between the enjoyment of the highest ranks and those of the rudest stages of society. If… — Sir Archibald Alison, 2nd Baronet Copy Share Image
Writing keeps me at my desk, constantly trying to write a perfect sentence. It is a great privilege to make one’s living… — John Banville Copy Share Image
“To make the distinction unmistakably clear: Civilization is the vital force in human history; culture is that inert mass of institutions and… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
We need a government, not politics. Because there's too much politics. Of course there should be debate. But there seems to be… — Daphne Guinness Copy Share Image
