No matter how exotic human civilization becomes, no matter the developments of life and society nor the complexity of the machine/human interface,… — Frank Herbert 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
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
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
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 face the gravest threat that civilization has ever confronted. It's global in nature and requires a global solution. Increased CO2 emissions… — Al Gore 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
When we learn to read, it's a real product of civilization and a civilized society. It affects your brain. It affects the… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
God did not create man in his own image. Evidently, it was quite the other way about, which is the painless explanation… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“We tried to make a beautiful world here, the voices mumble. There were those who saw the end of civilization as an… — Issac Marion Copy Share Image
We as a culture are forgetting that we are actually natural organisms and that we have this very, very deep connection and… — James Balog Copy Share Image
Understanding the times means understanding the course of history and civilization, as well as understanding the present situation. If we understand how… — James B. Jordan Copy Share Image
... I cannot think a civilization worth having that does not encourage and enable its subjects to spend something, not extorted by… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
We talk about a civilization and love and we're seeing it at the end. So many people around the world are -… — Michael Novak Copy Share Image
Essentially all civilizations that rose to the level of possessing an urban culture had need for two forms of science-related technology, namely,… — Frederick Seitz 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
The Western front is the important one in this war - the intersection between Islam and a liberal democratic tradition so mired… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
It is not a charity but a right, not bounty but justice, that I am pleading for. The present state of civilization… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
I read 'The High Frontier' in high school. I read it multiple times, and I was already primed. As soon as I… — Jeff Bezos Copy Share Image
“I never learned to say shit before a lady. I don't believe in progress in quite the way you seem to. You… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
The more ignorant men are, the more convinced are they that their little parish and their little chapel is an apex to… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I know this, and I know it from actual experience in the Orient, that the progress of modern Christian civilization has largely… — William Howard Taft Copy Share Image
“The development of human civilization over the course of millennia was really fascinating. Let us imagine, however, how high a level of… — Eraldo Banovac Copy Share Image
If Shakespeare had never existed, he asked, would the world have differed much from what it is today? Does the progress of… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Men must be capable of imagining and executing and insisting on social change if they are to reform or even maintain civilization,… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
Our great civilization, here in America and across the civilized world has come upon a moment of reckoning. We've seen it in… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
When you study history and look at every civilization that has grown up and died off, they all leave one remnant: a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Modern man has successfully razed the imaginative landscapes of primal peoples the whole world over. Kill the gods first, slaughter the sacred… — Grant Morrison Copy Share Image
The legalized liquor business is the tragedy of our civilization. Alcohol is the greatest and most blighting curse of our modern civilization.… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
If they succeed in creating an inclusive structure in virtually any peaceful form, Iraq succeeds. If they fail, the U.S.-led coalition fails… — Anthony H. Cordesman Copy Share Image
When ever the light of civilization faces upon you with a blighting power...go to the wilderness...Dull business routine, the fierce passions of… — Estwick Evans Copy Share Image
I've always been fascinated by the Norsemen, their lives, history and cosmology. The more we study them the more interesting they become...… — Tracy Hickman Copy Share Image
Every civilization that has ever existed has ultimately collapsed. History is a tale of efforts that failed, or aspirations that weren’t realized… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image