How we feel about the evolving future tells us who we are as individuals and as a civilization: Do we search for… — Virginia Postrel Copy Share Image
The white race is the cancer of human history; it is the white race and it alone — its ideologies and inventions… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
“Uninhibited, they wallowed with zest in the filth and mire of their political conceptions and needs, among the very leaders of their… — C.L.R. James Copy Share Image
I do not speak with any fondness but the language of coolest history, when I say that Boston commands attention as the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The spirit of the place is a strange thing. Our mechanical age tries to override it. But it does not succeed. In… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
I do not think there is such a thing as a "clash of civilizations." When I say that Muslims as Muslims cannot… — Talal Asad Copy Share Image
We face a climate crisis now that is the most serious challenge our civilization has ever confronted. And the greatest country in… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
Slavery is the first step towards civilization. In order to develop it is necessary that things should be much better for some… — Alexander Herzen Copy Share Image
Is not the history of real civilization the slow and gradual emancipation of the intellect, of the judgment, from the mastery of… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“We have designed our civilization based on science and technology and at the same time arranged things so that almost no one… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
I'm not sure he's wrong about automobiles," he said. "With all their speed forward they may be a step backward in civilization… — Booth Tarkington Copy Share Image
In principle as a philosophy, a model of organising society, Communism has to be respected. As regards the use of certain methods… — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
Our civilization cannot survive materially unless it is redeemed spiritually. It can be saved only by becoming permeated with the Spirit of… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
To the masses, the catchwords of Socialism sound so enticing... so they will continue to work for Socialism, helping thereby to bring… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The pulpit and the press have many commonplaces denouncing the thirst for wealth, but if men should take these moralists at their… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Another success is the post-office, with its educating energy augmented by cheapness and guarded by a certain religious sentimentin mankind; so that… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
America became a great civilization thanks to a culture based on the value of having to earn almost everything an American got… — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
If you will protest courageously, and yet with dignity and Christian love, when the history books are written in future generations, the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A good civilisation spreads over us freely like a tree, varying and yielding because it is alive. A bad civilisation stands up… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
While I have no empirical evidence to back this up, I bet that the number of homosexual people per thousand has not… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
How sad that men would base an entire civilization on the principle of paternity, upon the legal owership and presumed responsibility for… — Phyllis Chesler Copy Share Image
Without books the development of civilization would have been impossible. They are the engines of change, windows on the world, "Lighthouses" as… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“Under the rough and ridiculous circumstances of life in the Rocky Mountains there was something exciting and vital, full of rude poetry:… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
Co-operation, like other difficult things, can be learned only by practice: and to be capable of it in great things, a people… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
I didn't go to bookshops to buy. That's a little bourgeois. I went because they were civilized places. It made me happy… — Jerry Pinto Copy Share Image
The man who stands upon his own soil, who feels, by the laws of the land in which he lives,-by the laws… — Edward Everett Copy Share Image
At the root of the Noble Savage myth is this basic truth: the savage is good, but he's also violent. This is… — Bruno Dumont Copy Share Image
Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. They… — Barbara W Tuchman Copy Share Image
Economics must not be relegated to classrooms and statistical offices and must not be left to esoteric circles. It is the philosophy… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
“It oughtn't to need a war to make us talk to each other in buses, and invent our own amusements in the… — Jan Struther Copy Share Image
“Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for education. Probably, no nation is… — Abraham Flexner Copy Share Image
We will never get great art from women if their education exposes them only to the second-rate and if the idea of… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
It is possible to point to hundreds, thousands, perhaps even millions of imaginative, courageous programs to reduce, recycle, and reuse - yet… — Richard Heinberg Copy Share Image
There may be organic life out there, or maybe machines created by long-dead civilizations, but any signals, even if they are difficult… — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
“All civilization comes through literature now, especially in our country. A Greek got his civilization by talking and looking, and in some… — William Dean Howells Copy Share Image
You can tell the state of civilization by the way people dress. If the people who fought two World Wars came back… — Daphne Guinness Copy Share Image
Remember there is always a limit to self-indulgence, none to restraint... Civilization , in the real sense of the term, consists not… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Twenty centuries of 'progress' have brought the average citizen a vote, a national anthem, a Ford, a bank account, and a high… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
So as long as you can forget your body you are happy and the moment you begin to be aware of your… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We have seen and do see the type of evil that is within human civilization, and the Holocaust took place in European… — Laszlo Nemes Copy Share Image
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