I believe very firmly that indigenous populations had a really good, intuitive understanding of why we're here. And we're trying to gain… — Serj Tankian Copy Share Image
If anything, todays patterns are beginning to resemble the multi-layered complexities of the high middle ages, and not simply as played out… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
We must have no carelessness in our dealings with public property or the expenditure of public money. Such a condition is characteristic… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
Science fiction is the branch of literature that deals with the effects of change on people in the real world as it… — James Gunn Copy Share Image
Because civilization isn't a thing that you build and then there it is, you have it forever. It needs to be built… — Steven Galloway Copy Share Image
It could be that these other civilizations, if they are far more advanced intellectually than we are, would not even measure our… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Nothing living should ever be treated with contempt. Whatever it is that lives, a man, a tree, or a bird, should be… — Elizabeth Goudge Copy Share Image
Human civilization has been changing the Earths environment for millennia, often to our detriment. Dams, deforestation and urbanization can alter water cycles… — Jamais Cascio Copy Share Image
“A civilization, when the moment has come for crowds to acquire a high hand over it, is at the mercy of too… — Gustave Le Bon Copy Share Image
No matter how much restriction civilization imposes on the individual, he nevertheless finds some way to circumvent it. Wit is the best… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Real Freedom is to not feel limited when wearing this Zen robe, this troublesome formal robe. Similarly, in our busy life we… — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share Image
I was watching a collection of vintage '80s cereal commercials when I paused to wonder why cereal manufacturers no longer included toy… — Ernest Cline Copy Share Image
I should like to say that I am as proud of my Chinese heritage and background as I am devoted to modern… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In the South, prior to the Civil Rights movement and the 1964 Civil Rights Act, democracy was the rule. The majority of… — Neal Boortz Copy Share Image
To rescue from oblivion even a fragment of a language which men have used and which is in danger of being lost… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Perhaps civilization will never be safe until we care for something else more than we care for it. The hypothesis has certain… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Each civilization, each nation, each family, each profession, each sex and each class has its own history. Humans have so far been… — Theodore Zeldin Copy Share Image
ASEM should build a new Silk Road to actively boost exchanges between these two civilizations in the new century so that countries… — Jiang Zemin Copy Share Image
It was if the city knew about Percy's dream of Gaea. It knew that the earth goddess intended on razing all human… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
All civilization in a sense exists only in the mind. Gunpowder, textile arts, machinery, laws, telephones are not themselves transmitted from man… — Alfred L. Kroeber Copy Share Image
The curse of poverty has no justification in our age. It is socially as cruel and blind as the practice of cannibalism… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
No festival of martial glory or warrior's renown is this; no pageant pomp of war-like conquest, no glory of fratricidal strife attend… — Peter J. McGuire Copy Share Image
Not only is patriotism disdained, the very basis for pride in one's country and culture is systematically undermined in our educational institutions… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
There is little hope for us until we become tough-minded enough to break loose from the shackles of prejudice, half-truths, and downright… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The Arab peoples possess an ancient and highly developed civilization that is in many ways more sophisticated than our own. For instance,… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
The consensus is clear. We need an immediate and determined shift to a clean, renewable economy. The continued mass burning of fossil… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
The future of English fiction may rest with this Unknown Public - a reading public of three millions which lies right out… — Wilkie Collins Copy Share Image
No civilization can exist part free and part slave. ..We have never had any other kind of civilization. It has always been… — Walter Russell Copy Share Image
“In the ancient times, when ignorance was the default mode of thinking, Krishna may have proven to be a glorious figure to… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
GENTLE READER: You, sir, are an anarchist, and Miss Manners is frightened to have anything to do with you. It is true… — Judith Martin Copy Share Image
It is well for civilization that human beings constantly strive to gain greater and greater rewards, for it is this urge, this… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
“Instead of adapting, their leaders clung to power and strove instead to be the last ones to starve to death. The Mayan… — Daniel Suarez Copy Share Image
The attraction of horror is a mental, or even an intellectual, excitement, but the fascination of the repulsive, so noticeable incontemporary writing,… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
Wine has been with us since the beginning of civilization. It is the temperate, civilized, sacred, romantic mealtime beverage recommended in the… — Robert Mondavi Copy Share Image
Even in a savage tribe, the achievements of adults are far beyond what the immature members would be capable of if left… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
No doubt Western civilization has in the past been full of wars and revolutions, and the national elements in our culture, even… — Christopher Dawson Copy Share Image
Resort to science has rendered modern war so destructive of life and property that it presents a new problem to mankind, such,… — John Hessin Clarke Copy Share Image
Were I asked to define it, I should reply that archeology is that science which enables us to register and classify our… — Amelia B. Edwards Copy Share Image
Freedom of expression is the well-spring of our civilization... The history of civilization is in considerable measure the displacement of error which… — Felix Frankfurter Copy Share Image
I ascribe a basic importance to the phenomenon of language. To speak means to be in a position to use a certain… — Frantz Fanon Copy Share Image
