Modern civilization has no understanding of sacred matters. Everything is backwards. — Thomas Yellowtail Copy Share Image
Modern civilization has taught us to convert night into day and golden silence into brazen din and noise. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
If modern civilization man had to kill the animals he eats, the number of vegetarians would rise astronomically. — Christian Morgenstern Copy Share Image
If the Negro is not careful he will drink in all the poison of modern civilization and die from the effects of… — Marcus Garvey Copy Share Image
How much modern civilization has lost, I think, when they lost the awareness of the billions of stars overhead. — Christopher Pike Copy Share Image
Machinery is the chief symbol of modern civilization; it represents a great sin. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The disease of mutual distrust among nations is the bane of modern civilization — Franz Boas Copy Share Image
Not much was really invented during the Renaissance, if you don't count modern civilization. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Modern civilization is complicated and artificial. Simple folk live in a world of love and peace. Let no one hate another or… — Sivananda Copy Share Image
We Christians must simplify our lives or lose untold treasures on earth and in eternity. Modern civilization is so complex as to… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
The contribution of Islam to history and modern civilization is the product of the efforts of peoples of many races and tongues… — Aly Khan Copy Share Image
The human heart as modern civilization has made it is more prone to hatred than to friendship. And it is prone to… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
If I were starting life over again, I am inclined to think that I would go into the advertising business in preference… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The fact remains that, if the supply of energy failed, modern civilization would come to an end as abruptly as does the… — Frederick Soddy Copy Share Image
...the materialism of modern civilization is paradoxically founded on a hatred of materiality, a goal-oriented desire to obliterate all natural limits through… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
Modern civilization is so complex as to make the devotional life all but impossible. It wears us out by multiplying distractions and… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
Once you get past the grand normative claims made in the West for literature, especially the novel, in the post-Christian era -… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
For out of this modern civilization economic royalists carved new dynasties. New kingdoms were built upon concentration of control over material things.… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The sole perfection which modern civilization attains is a mechanical one; machines are splendid and flawless, but the life which serves them… — Karel Capek Copy Share Image
What interests me is to paint the kind of antisensitivity that impregnates modern civilization. I think art since Cezanne has become extremely… — Roy Lichtenstein Copy Share Image
It is necessary for us to explain the involuntary repugnance we possess for the nature and personality of the Jews. The Jews… — Richard Wagner Copy Share Image
Hate-on-the-highway is an institution occupying a high place in our modern civilization…The godawful glares that drivers exchange as they pass each other,… — H. Allen Smith Copy Share Image
A useful analogy is to see traditional societies as relying on instantaneous (or minimally delayed) and constantly replenished solar income, while modern… — Vaclav Smil Copy Share Image
What threatens civilization today is not war, but the changing conception of life values entailed by certain political doctrines. Only by recapturing… — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
“To understand the dominating role played by technics in modern civilization….one must explain the culture that was ready to use them and… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
Modern civilization is a product of an energy binge. Binges often end in hangovers. — Alfred W. Crosby Copy Share Image
Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled. — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
The longer a region is in contact with modern civilization, the higher the degree to which the society in the region is… — Ko Wen-je Copy Share Image
Present-Day Wickedness, Apostasy and Modern Civilization Cannot Prevent Revival. — John R. Rice Copy Share Image
“I think that if a person doesn't feel cynical then they're out of phase with the 20th century. Being cynical is the… — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
“The currents of modern civilization had somehow passed it by, and as he returned to it now, fresh from the sides of… — Orlando Figes Copy Share Image
I believe in corporations. They are indispensable instruments of our modern civilization. But I believe they should be so regulated that they… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
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
“Modern civilization has become so complex and the lives of civilized men so interwoven with the lives of other men in other… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Rome is the one great spiritual organisation which is able to resist and must, as a matter of life and death, the… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
In one of my latest conversations with Darwin he expressed himself very gloomily on the future of humanity, on the ground that… — Alfred Russel Wallace Copy Share Image
For several centuries Western civilization has had a drive for material accumulation, continual extensions of economic power, termed 'progress'...The longing for growth… — Gary Snyder Copy Share Image
Unless modern civilization is a failure, it is entirely feasible and practicable for two races in such essential political, economic and religious… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
An unhurried mind brings the capacity to make wise choices every day - choices of how we use our time, of where… — Eknath Easwaran Copy Share Image
