It's a difficult business, creating a new, alternative civilization. — David Graeber Copy Share Image
What does civilization mean to you, and what would its ending bring to the world? — Serj Tankian Copy Share Image
You can best serve civilization by being against what usually passes for it. — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Artists are the gate keepers of truth. We are civilization’s radical voice. — Paul Robeson Copy Share Image
The acceptance of homosexuality is the last step in the decline of Gentile civilization, — Pat Robertson Copy Share Image
“We've got to have rules and obey them. After all, we're not savages.” — William Golding Copy Share Image
Civilization’s shortening attention span is mismatched with the pace of environmental problems. — Stewart Brand Copy Share Image
There is no clear or meaningful difference between insurgency and civil war, or between national terrorism and civil war for that matter. — Anthony H. Cordesman Copy Share Image
Culture is the tacit agreement to let the means of subsistence disappear behind the purpose of existence. Civilization is the subordination of… — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
“There’s eight million people here pretending the others aren’t getting on their nerves. I believe it’s called civilization.” — Chris Cleave Copy Share Image
The future is in your hearts and in your hands. God is entrusting to you the task, at once difficult and uplifting,… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
Our fantastic civilization has fallen out of touch with many aspects of nature, and with none more completely than with night. — Henry Beston Copy Share Image
What makes human power erupt like a volcano? What destroy's it? The civilizations of Rome, Greece, Egypt, China were all eruptions from… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
Bombs fall and wipe out civilization as we know it, two things come up out of the ashes: roaches and F-150s. — James Sallis Copy Share Image
Civilization means, above all, an unwillingness to inflict unnecessary pain ... those of us who heedlessly accept the commands of authority cannot… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
[I]t is necessary to insist upon this extraordinary but undeniable fact: experimental science has progressed thanks in great part to the work… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
Labor, with its coarse raiment and its bare right arm, has gone forth in the earth, achieving the truest conquests and rearing… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
It is not necessary to argue to those for whom I write that the two great needs of mankind, that all men… — Josiah Strong Copy Share Image
Here the Frenchman, Spaniard, and Englishman all passed, leaving each his legend; and a brilliant and more or less feudal civilization with… — Hervey Allen Copy Share Image
Advanced technology does not always promise a more intelligent civilization. On the contrary, the more the common people rely on technology to… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
The old interests of aristocracy - the romance of action, the exalted passions of chivalry and war - faded into the background,… — Lytton Strachey Copy Share Image
Codi: Gives you the willies, doesn't it? The thought of raising kids in a place where the front yard ends in a… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
The body of economic knowledge is an essential element in the structure of human civilization; it is the foundation upon which modern… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Nor do I take into account a danger of starting a chain reaction of a scope great enough to destroy part or… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The larger the government, the more our livings standards are reduced. We are fortunate as a civilization that the progress of free… — Llewellyn Rockwell Copy Share Image
Strength, Courage, Mastery, and Honor are the alpha virtues of men all over the world. They are the fundamental virtues of men… — Jack Donovan Copy Share Image
My fellow Americans: Last night when I spoke with you about the fall of Rome, I knew at that moment that the… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Civilization after civilization, it is the same. The world falls to tyranny with a whisper. The frightened are ever keen to bow… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
Our civilization is not Christian. It does not come from the skies. It is not a result of inspiration. It is the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Thanks to this availability of suitable wild mammals and plants, early peoples of the Fertile Crescent could quickly assemble a potent and… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
“Unspoken Truths (The Sonnet) Democracy is people-approved dictatorship, Military is people-approved genocide. Atom bombs are people-approved armageddon, In conscience-court all guilty of… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
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