If we are to produce a more civilized society, a more just society, it has to be based on the truth. — Julian Assange Copy Share Image
The editors are committed to nothing save this: to keep common sense as fast as they can, to belabor sham as agreeably… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Steven Pinker says, the invention of printing and the widespread appearance of fiction - this taught empathy. If you read a novel,… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
“Politeness can at once be the indifferent affliction of the ‘civilized’ as well as a subterfuge for the designed offence.” — Vinod Pande Copy Share Image
“Arise, my friend – the world is wailing for kindness – it is wailing for compassion – it is wailing for love.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
I cannot imagine the type of sinister fiend who would be against the library. A library essentially says, 'Look, here is some… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
The true courage of civilized nations is readiness for sacrifice in the service of the state, so that the individual counts as… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
I always get back to the question, is it really necessary that men should consume so much of their bodily and mental… — William Allingham Copy Share Image
I think Jorge Borges said that when Argentineans die they turn into angels and go and live in Uruguay. But for the… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
Consider what you have in the smallest well-chosen library-a company of the wisest and wittiest men which can be plucked out of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Deep thinkers who look everywhere for the mysterious causes of poverty, ignorance, crime and war need look no further than their own… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
My own belief is that in most ages and in most places obscure psychological forces led men to adopt systems involving quite… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Since art is dead in the actual life of civilized nations, it has been relegated to these grotesque morgues, museums. — Walter Gropius Copy Share Image
The sobering anwer is yes - the white community is so entitled because ... it is the advanced race ... it is… — William F. Buckley, Jr Copy Share Image
We may think of ourselves as civilized, but there is always a wildness within. — John Matthews Copy Share Image
History reveals no civilized people among whom there was not a highly educated class and large aggregations of wealth. Large profits mean… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
Men have been barbarians much longer than they have been civilized. They are only precariously civilized, and within us there is the… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
Walls, towns, rules, and day-to-day life doesn't make us civilized ... That's organization and ritual. Civilization lives in our hearts and heads… — Jonathan Maberry Copy Share Image
It seems to me that the god that is commonly worshipped in civilized countries is not at all divine, though he bears… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“What was good enough for the fiction fearing men of the past, is no yardstick for the civilized us.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Mankind, I hazard, wherever found, Civilized or Savage, cannot keep to any purpose for much length of time, except the purpose of… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
. . . As a so-called "civilized" people, and as members of a society in search of lasting peace in the world,… — Nathaniel Altman Copy Share Image
There are only two possible forms of control: one internal and the other external; religious control and political control. They are of… — Juan Donoso Cortes Copy Share Image
