The more civilized a nation, the more conformed its population, until that civilization's last age arrives, when multiplicity wages war with conformity.… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
“Without wonder, there’s no progress. Nothing gets done, nobody goes anywhere. If you don’t exercise your capacity for wonder…well, use it or… — Brian Hodge Copy Share Image
I don't think we're crumbling as a civilization, but this is not our finest hour, and it's good to be mindful that… — Mel Gibson Copy Share Image
We've persevered because of a belief we share with the Iraqi people - a belief that out of the ashes of war,… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The statistics of life out there and the statistics of intelligent beings and advanced civilization is a certainty, the way I look… — Story Musgrave Copy Share Image
If one's object is ascetic, it is far better to stay in London or Paris or New York; there is practically no… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
While there are cases where even the law recognizes an abortion as justifiable if recommended by a physician, I assert that the… — Margaret Sanger Copy Share Image
There are many, many communities, many ethnic minorities, many civilizations that have been brutalised by others and you have to move on.… — David Oyelowo Copy Share Image
Lying under an acacia tree with the sound of the dawn around me, I realized more clearly the facts that man should… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
Society in its full sense ... is never an entity separable from the individuals who compose it. No individual can arrive even… — Ruth Benedict Copy Share Image
It would take a civilization far more advanced than ours, unbelievably advanced, to begin to manipulate negative energy to create gateways to… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
We were granted the right to exist by the God of our fathers at the glimmer of the dawn of human civilization… — Menachem Begin Copy Share Image
Is not life exactly what it ought to be, in a certain sense? Isn't it only the naive who find all of… — Richard Wright Copy Share Image
University, as institutions, pre-date the information economy by many centuries and are not for-profit cultural entities, whose reason of existence (purportedly) is… — Bruce Sterling Copy Share Image
“A heart pulsating in harmony with the circulation of sap and the flow of rivers? A body with the rhythms of the… — Dag Hammarskjöld Copy Share Image
Beyond [known peoples of black West Africa] to the south there is no civilization in the proper sense. There are only humans… — Ibn Khaldun Copy Share Image
It is a relatively small number of people who want to impose their will by the use of terror on the rest… — John Reid Copy Share Image
Our civilization lacks humane feeling. We are humans who are insufficiently humane! We must realize that and seek to find a new… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
“Could these wonderful inventions have never been created without first going down the road of armaments and warfare? Was it acceptable that… — Sakyo Komatsu Copy Share Image
I do not believe the greatest threat to our future is from bombs or guided missiles. I don't think our civilization will… — Laurence McKinley Gould Copy Share Image
Their whole life depends on spending money, and now they’ve got none to spend. That’s our civilization and our education: bring up… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It cannot be denied that Fascism and similar movements aiming at the establishment of dictatorships are full of the best intentions and… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The saying of John Peale Bishop is worth recalling, that the South excelled in two things which the French deem essential to… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
Addiction is the number one disease of civilization, and it's directly and indirectly related to all other diseases. Besides physical addictions to… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
I want to get away from it all. Move to the sticks. Montana. Hundreds of miles from civilization. Get a cabin in… — David Spade Copy Share Image
The famous Greek physician Hippocrates administered musical treatments to his patients in 400 B.C. Although this type of treatment did not originate… — Corinne Heline Copy Share Image
Do not confuse objectives with methods. When the nation becomes substantially united in favor of planning the broad objectives of civilization, then… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
If you would see how interwoven it is in the warp and woof of civilization ... go at night-fall to the top… — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
Men's souls are crooked and unsound things, not good materials out of which to build friendships, families, households, cities, civilizations. But good… — John C. Wright Copy Share Image
If the account given in Genesis is really true, ought we not, after all, to thank this serpent? He was the first… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I may now add that civilization is a process in the service of Eros, whose purpose is to combine single human individuals,… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Well, right now, I'm very fascinated with 1920s Berlin. I mean, probably the more interesting thing would be to go to the… — Natalie Portman Copy Share Image
We should lay aside every hindrance and endeavour by uniting the whole force and spirit of our people to raise again a… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Scientology is the science of knowing how to know answers. It is a wisdom in the tradition of ten thousand years of… — L. Ron Hubbard Copy Share Image
Whatever of true glory has been won by any nation of the earth; whatever great advance his been made by any nation… — J. G. Holland Copy Share Image
I feel this is very important for us to have serene buildings because our civilization is chaotic as it is, you see;… — Minoru Yamasaki Copy Share Image
China, with her five thousand years of history, her vast territory and her enormous population stands like a mountain peak among the… — Chiang Kai-shek Copy Share Image
One of the greatest accomplishments of Western civilization is the development of the scientific method and the scientific disposition, which entail the… — Heather Mac Donald Copy Share Image
It is a fine line, in all of us, between civilization and savagery. To any who think they would never cross it,… — Jacqueline Carey Copy Share Image
If man were immortal he could be perfectly sure of seeing the day when everything in which he had trusted should betray… — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
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