Civilization Quote by Oscar Wilde

What enables us to achieve our greatness contains the seeds of our destruction.

— Jim Valvano

Everything we do these days - our lust for ever more comfort, pleasure, and distraction, our refusal to engage with the mandates of reality,…

— James Howard Kunstler

Our lives become trivial. And our capacity for magnificent causes and great worship dies.

— John Piper

The greatness of the world in which we live is the accumulated goodness of many small and seemingly inconsequential acts.

— Gordon B. Hinckley

Little deeds of kindness, little words of love, Make our Earth an Eden like the heaven above.

— Anonymous

Constantly measuring ourselves against others sours and shortens our lives, robbing us of the very things we think it will bring: prosperity, love, inner…

— Martha Beck

We must overthrow the material and moral conditions of our present-day life. . . . We must first purify our atmosphere and completely transform…

— Mikhail Bakunin

Everything that I see must become personal; otherwise, it is dead and mechanical. Our only chance to escape the blight of mechanization, of acting…

— Clarence John Laughlin

The diversity of the phenomena of nature is so great, and the treasures hidden in the heavens so rich, precisely in order that the…

— Johannes Kepler

A careless way of sauntering across the earth and breaking open its treasures, a terrible dependency on sucking out the world's best juices for…

— Barbara Kingsolver

Machinery that gives us abundance has left us in want. Our knowledge has made us cynical, our cleverness hard and unkind. We think too…

— Charlie Chaplin