“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
The legalized liquor business is the tragedy of our civilization. Alcohol is the greatest and most blighting curse of our modern civilization.… — Abraham Lincoln 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
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
Speed is one of the great curses of modern civilization, obsession with speed leads to quantitative approach; we come to believe that… — Satish Kumar 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
“Where are we as a modern civilization if our educational institutions conspire to train only a fraction of our capacities? and if… — Eugene Taylor Copy Share Image
One could almost phrase the motto of our modern civilization thus: Science is my shepherd; I shall not want. — Harry Emerson Fosdick Copy Share Image
Everything in modern civilization is based on this concept of time which is not really valid. — Jose Arguelles Copy Share Image
The British Government in India constitutes a struggle between modern civilization, which is the Kingdom of Satan, and the ancient civilization, which… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Modern civilization has made woman a little wiser, but it has increased her suffering because of man's covetousness. The woman of yesterday… — Kahlil Gibran Copy Share Image
A modern civilization is only possible when it is accepted that singular beings exist and express themselves freely. — Tahar Ben Jelloun Copy Share Image
It is not for nothing, either, that the umbrella has become the very foremost badge of modern civilization--the Urim and Thummim of… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
We must open our eyes and see that modern civilization has become so complex and the lives of civilized men so interwoven… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
[T]he true natural sciences lock together in theory and evidence to form the ineradicable technical base of modern civilization. The pseudosciences satisfy… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
Our youth must be steadfast and take advantage of the benefits of modern civilization. Do not fall prey to idleness for it… — Haile Selassie Copy Share Image
One cannot deny that in former times man's life had been one of toil and hardship. It is correct to say, therefore,… — Haile Selassie Copy Share Image
This the American black man knows: his fight here is a fight to the finish. Either he dies or wins. If he… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
Although humans have existed on this planet for perhaps 2 million years, the rapid climb to modern civilization within the last 200… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
“It would be both foolish and cumbersome to continue our everyday existences in bliss without first denying to ourselves, for the sake… — Ashim Shanker Copy Share Image
A great purposelessness has descended upon modern civilizations. People at large have lost any sense of the meaning and purpose of life;… — Matthew Kelly Copy Share Image
One of the greatest disasters that happened to modern civilization was for democracy to inscribe "liberty" on its banners instead of "justice."… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
“Modern civilization depends on science … James Smithson was well aware that knowledge should not be viewed as existing in isolated parts,… — Joseph Henry Copy Share Image
“Modern civilization seems to be incapable of producing people endowed with imagination, intelligence, and courage. In practically every country there is a… — Alexis Carrel Copy Share Image
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