“ Of the gladdest moments in human life, methinks, is the departure upon a distant journey into unknown lands. Shaking off with one mighty effort the fetters of Habit, the leaden weight of Routine, the… Richard Francis Burton
“ A German immersed in any civilization different from his own loses a weight equivalent in volume to the amount of intelligence he displaces. Jose Bergamin
“ We are all afraid - for our confidence for the future for the world. That is the nature of the human imagination. Yet every man every civilization has gone forward because of its engagement with w… Jacob Bronowski
“ This is a present from a small, distant world, a token of our sounds, our science, our images, our music, our thoughts and our feelings. We are attempting to survive our time so we may live into yours… Jimmy Carter
“ This observation leads Rozin to a stunning conclusion: "Disgust is the basic emotion of civilization. Winifred Gallagher
“ Men are not gentle creatures who want to be loved, and who at the most can defend themselves if they are attacked; they are, on the contrary, creatures among whose instinctual endowments is to be reck… Sigmund Freud
“ Barbarians are all alike... sit up half the night to discuss anything a Roman says. Rudyard Kipling
“ We are all proprietary toward cities we love. 'Ah, you should have seen her when I loved her!' we say, reciting glories since faded or defiled, trusting her to no one else; that others should know and… Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
“ Civilization has made life a humanized jungle, a sugar coated jungle, but still a jungle Bangambiki Habyarimana
“ (Catholic) monks taught metallurgy, introduced new crops, copied ancient texts, preserved literacy, pioneered in technology, invented champagne, improved the European landscape, provided for wanderers… Thomas E. Woods Jr.
“ Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors. The library connects us with the insight and knowledge, painfully extracted from Nature, of the greatest minds that ever wer… Carl Sagan
“ Human civilization as we know it is like the Titanic headed for the iceberg, whether the iceberg be nuclear, environmental or terrorism-related. Marianne Williamson
“ Civilizations die from philosophical calm irony and the sense of fair play quite as surely as they die of debauchery. Joseph Wood Krutch
“ Once men sang together round a table in chorus; now one man sings alone, for the absurd reason that he can sing better. If our civilization goes on like this, only one man will laugh, because he can l… G.K. Chesterton
“ The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization. Sigmund Freud
“ Many lessons can be learned from the history of Western civilization, but one of them is especially clear. Lack of involvement in the affairs of one's society can lead to a sense of powerlessness. In… Jackson J. Spielvogel
“ Yet, history has shown that if material force can defeat some ideologies it can no longer obliterate a civilization without destabilizing the whole planet. Abdelaziz Bouteflika
“ There has never been but one question in all civilization-how to keep a few men from saying to many men: You work and earn bread and we will eat it. Abraham Lincoln
