If man were immortal he could be perfectly sure of seeing the day when everything in which he had trusted should betray his trust, and, in short, of ….

I trust the time is nigh when, with the universal assent of civilized people, all international differences shall be determined without resort to arm….

One of the deepest impulses in man is the impulse to record, - to scratch a drawing on a tusk or keep a diary, to collect sagas and heap cairns. This….

The great enemy of any attempt to change men's habits is inertia. Civilization is limited by intertia..

If the humanism that makes civilization civilized is to be preserved into the new century, it will need advocates. These advocates will need a memory….

As man advances in civilization, and small tribes are united into larger communities, the simplest reason would tell each individual that he ought to….

It seemed so illogical to punish some poor criminal for doing something that civilization taught him how to do so he could have something that civili….

There are always rebels and radicals, I suppose,' McCleethy allows. 'Those who live on the fringes of society. But what do they contribute to the soc….

Scientology is the science of knowing how to know answers. It is a wisdom in the tradition of ten thousand years of search in Asia and Western civili….

Slavery as an institution that degraded man to a thing has never died out. In some periods of history it has flourished: many civilizations have clim….

The laws should be rigidly enforced which prohibit the immigration of a servile class to compete with American labor, with no intention of acquiring ….

The essential characteristic of Western civilization that distinguishes it from the arrested and petrified civilizations of the East was and is its c….

At the root of our civilization, there is the freedom of each person of thought, of belief, of opinion, of work, of leisure..

Civilization is a hopeless race to discover remedies for the evils it produces..

Agitators are a set of interfering, meddling people, who come down to some perfectly contented class of the community and sow the seeds of discontent….

This is the reality of nuclear weapons: they may trigger a world war; a war which, unlike previous ones, destroys all of civilization..

The arts have a development which comes not only from the individual but also from a whole acquired force, the civilization which precedes us. One ca….

In point of fact there are a certain number of values and of forces which are of decisive importance in our world civilization: the primacy of produc….

A lot of people they don’t know that Africans even named the stars, that different peoples, different so-called native peoples, have their own names ….

The worlds civilization started from the day on which everyone received reward for labour..

While denial leads to certainty, it is only the certainty of death. This is true for individuals and also for civilizations..