(1032 quotes found)
“Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.”
Will Durant
“In giving rights to others which belong to them, we give rights to ourselves and to our country”
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
“The true civilization is where every man gives to every other every right that he claims for himself”
Robert Green Ingersoll
“A culture is made -- or destroyed -- by its articulate voices.”
Ayn Rand
“The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the outstanding event of the last decade”
Hannah Arendy
“Art is the signature of civilizations.”
Beverly Sills
“Each of us in our own way can try to spread compassion into people’s hearts. Western civilizations these days place great importance on filling the human 'brain' with knowledge, but no one seems to care about filling the human 'heart' with compassion. This is what the real role of religion is.”
Dalai Lama
“NOISE, n. A stench in the ear. Undomesticated music. The chief product and authenticating sign of civilization.”
Ambrose Bierce
“The careful student of history will discover that Christianity has been of very little value in advancing civilization, but has done a great deal toward retarding it”
Matilda Joslyn Gage
“Without adventure civilization is in full decay”
Alfred North Whitehead
