What you people who weren't yet born can never know is what it meant to sleep in cities under silent falls of… — Timothy Findley Copy Share Image
The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization, though then, it is… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
The sentiments attributed to Christ are in the Old Testament. They were familiar in the Jewish schools and to all the Pharisees,… — Joseph McCabe Copy Share Image
The Christian god can easily be pictured as virtually the same god as the many ancient gods of past civilizations. The Christian… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I think one of the most destructive things in terms of American security has been for all of our leaders, without exception… — Michael Scheuer Copy Share Image
If there is one word that describes the meaning of character, it is the word honor. Without honor, civilization would not long… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
Harmony, balance, and rhythm. They're the three things that stay with you your whole life. Without them civilization is out of whack.… — Daniel James Brown Copy Share Image
“Spiritual activity, education, civilization, culture, the idea are all vague, indefinite concepts, under the banner of which it is quite convenient to… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
THE COMPUTER IS JUST AN INSTRUMENT for doing faster what we already know how to do slower. All pretensions to computer intelligence… — Gian-Carlo Rota Copy Share Image
Clearly our first task is to use the material wealth of space to solve the urgent problems we now face on Earth:… — Gerard K. O'Neill Copy Share Image
After long centuries, agrarian civilization is weakening. Is sufficient attention being devoted to the arrangement and improvement of the life of the… — Pope Paul VI Copy Share Image
For in this century, within the next decades, will be decided for generations whether all mankind is to become Communist, whether the… — Whittaker Chambers Copy Share Image
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The Islamic conquest of India is probably the bloodiest story in history. It is a discouraging tale, for its evident moral is… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
All human beings are entrepreneurs. When we were in the caves we were all self-employed . . . finding our food, feeding… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
The intimate coupling of two men or two women is not marriage. It is a pale and misshapen counterfeit that will only… — D. James Kennedy Copy Share Image
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...evil is a force and, like the physical and chemical forces, we cannot annihilate it; we may only change its form. We… — James Weldon Johnson Copy Share Image
I have always believed and still believe that artists who live and work with spiritual values cannot and should not remain indifferent… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
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I myself have been particularly careful never to say a civil word to the United States. I have scoffed at their inhabitants… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
We are close to dead. There are faces and bodies like gorged maggots on the dance floor, on the highway, in the… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
I wanted to visit the Capitol of our country, the center of our great civilization that stands like the sun in the… — Marietta Holley Copy Share Image
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Beauty or beast, the modern skyscraper is a major force with a strong magnetic field. It draws into its physical being all… — Ada Louise Huxtable Copy Share Image
The discovery of electrical waves... has had a profound influence on civilization; it has been instrumental in providing the methods which may… — Joseph John Thomson Copy Share Image
The point of asylum is not to declare to the world what country you think is the pinnacle of civilization. The point… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
Most of us still believe in the intrinsic value of nature, but I think the first century of the environmental/conservation movement demonstrated… — Edward Norton Copy Share Image
It is not the child as a physical but as a psychic being that can provide a strong impetus to the betterment… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
How carelessly imperial power vivisected ancient civilizations. Palestine and Kashmir are imperial Britain's festering, blood-drenched gifts to the modem world. Both are… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
“We have barely emerged from centuries of barbarism. It's not a surprise that there are shocking inequities in this world. It is… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
The one enemy in the world that America has is England. But then, England is the great land of Christian civilization, and… — Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa Copy Share Image
The yearning after equality [in economic outcome] is the offspring of envy and covetousness, and there is no possible plan for satisfying… — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
If we're thinking about old civilizations, those that formed a long time ago and there were stars and planets around long before… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
Almost all wars, perhaps all, are trade wars connected with some material interest. They are always disguised as sacred wars, made in… — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share Image
![“The yearning after equality [in economic outcome] is the offspring of envy and covetousness, and there is no possible plan for satisfying that yearning which can do aught else than rob A to give to B; consequently all such plans nourish some of the meanest vices of human nature, waste capital, and…” quote by William Graham Sumner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9b4/william-graham-sumner-5011_can-do_the-yearning-after-equality-in-economic_454035.png)
