But the place which you have selected for your camp, though never so rough and grim, begins at once to have its… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The goal of every culture is to decay through over-civilization; the factors of decadence, -- luxury, skepticism, weariness and superstition, -- are… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
Space, the final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. Its five-year mission: to explore strange new worlds, to seek… — Gene Roddenberry Copy Share Image
The worth of a civilization or a culture is not valued in the terms of its material wealth or military power, but… — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
“The old school of thought would have you believe that you'd be a fool to take on nature without arming yourself with… — Ryel Kestenbaum Copy Share Image
I represent a party which does not yet exist: the party Revolution-Civilization. This party will make the twentieth century. There will issue… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Just as any moron can destroy a priceless Ming vase, so the shallow and ill-educated people who run our schools can undermine… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
“Because a thing is going strong now, it need not go strong for ever,' she said. 'This craze for motion has only… — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
The destructive impact of psychiatry upon our civilization has been given far too little attention, and the role of psychiatry in Nazi… — Peter Breggin Copy Share Image
The Frankenstein of Communism is the product of the Jewish mind, and was turned loose upon the world by the son of… — Kenneth Goff Copy Share Image
Everyone believes that the prospect for a civil war has diminished significantly over the past several days. All the mainstream leaders of… — Zalmay Khalilzad Copy Share Image
The big lie perpetrated on Western society is the idea of women’s inferiority, a lie so deeply ingrained in our social behaviour… — Molly Haskell Copy Share Image
Here is a fact: nothing in all civilization has been as productive as ludicrous ambition. Whatever its ills, nothing has created more.… — Tom Rachman Copy Share Image
“Our civilization is first and foremost a civilization of means; in the reality of modern life, the means, it would seem, are… — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
For ever and anon the soul becomes weary of the conventions that are not of it, and with a single stroke shatters… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
A great civilization is not conquered from without, until it has destroyed itself from within. The essential causes of Rome's decline lay… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
Distributed intelligence is the key to the advancement of human civilization. Dictatorships, communist countries, monarchies in the past all eventually collapsed because… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
Aviation has struck a delicately balanced world, a world where stability was already giving way to the pressure of new dynamic forces,… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
The human race has reached a turning point. Man has opened the secrets of nature and mastered new powers. If he uses… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
Civilization, let me tell you what it is. First the soldier, then the merchant, then the priest, then the lawyer. The merchant… — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
For me, 'Moby-Dick' is more than the greatest American novel ever written; it is a metaphysical survival manual - the best guidebook… — Nathaniel Philbrick Copy Share Image
India is a land of plenty inhibited by poverty; India has an enthralling, uplifting civilization that sparkles not only in our magnificent… — Pranab Mukherjee Copy Share Image
Here is the chance for young women and young men of devotion to lift again the banner of humanity and to walk… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
"Civilization" has been thrust upon me since the days of the reservations, and it has not added one whit to my sense… — Luther Standing Bear Copy Share Image
It is so basic. A human being is an innocent part of nature. Our civilization has distorted this universal quality that allows… — Ruth Bernhard Copy Share Image
Casper Wyo., population 18,000 when I was born, was large enough to hold the surprises of civilization, but small enough that the… — Lynne Cheney Copy Share Image
What if a small group of world leaders were to conclude that the principal risk to the Earth comes from the actions… — Maurice Strong Copy Share Image
I feel like we're between two great possibilities: we're either going to turn things around, and in this generation see the rising… — Alan Keyes Copy Share Image
There are millions and millions of Sufis who have existed in Islamic history and have the deepest impact on every aspect of… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image
It is time to stop the mealy-mouthed euphemisms: 'Nationalists', 'Loyalists', 'Communities', 'Ethnic Groups', 'Cultures', 'Civilizations'. Religions is the word you need. Religions… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“The real question is: How sturdy and solid is the floor our civilization stands on? How many lives with no prospects, shattered… — Christa Wolf Copy Share Image
With every throb of the climatic pulse which we have felt in Central Asia,, the centre of civilisation has moved this way… — Ellsworth Huntington Copy Share Image
Yoga is as old and traditional as civilization, yet it persists in modern society as a means to achieving essential vitality. But… — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
The Jews had a love-hate relationship with the Greek culture. They craved its civilization but resented its dominance. Josephus says they regarded… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I love even to see the domestic animals reassert their native rights — any evidence that they have not wholly lost their… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Each time the dharma moved into a different civilization or historical period, it faced a twofold challenge: to maintain its integrity as… — Stephen Batchelor Copy Share Image
There are those who say that when civilization progresses a bit further transportation facilities will move into the skies and under the… — Junichiro Tanizaki Copy Share Image
To be clear, civilization is not the same as society. Civilization is a specific, hierarchical organization based on 'power over.' Dismantling civilization,… — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
No one ceases to be a man, no one forfeits his rights to civilization merely by being more or less uncultured, and… — Jose Rizal Copy Share Image
On humanitarian intervention in general, I guess my view is not unlike the view that was attributed to Gandhi, accurately or not,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
