“ A single generation enamoured of foreign ways is almost enough in history to risk the whole continuity of civilization and learning. Sister Nivedita
“ The philosopher cannot seriously put to himself questions that his civilization has not lived. William Barrett
“ While modernity is not Christianity, modernity is the product of a Christian civilization. Lately the defects of modernity have been made plain to us while its virtues have been taken for granted. John Mark Reynolds
“ In my own opinion, the average American's cultural shortcomings can be likened to those of the educated barbarians of ancient Rome. These were barbarians who learned to speak--and often to read and wr… J. Paul Getty
“ Cities force growth and make men talkative and entertaining, but they make them artificial. Ralph Waldo Emerson H.W. Brands
“ Once information slipped the bonds of gravity and friction, it tended to gather where it was most valuable. H.W. Brands
“ Certain portions of the earth, escaping utter destruction, become the seedbeds for replenishing the human race, and so it happens that on a world that is not young there are young populations having n… Ambrosius Theodosius Macrobius
“ Japhy was considered an eccentric around the campus, which is the usual thing for campuses and college people to think whenever a real man appears on the scene - colleges being nothing but grooming sc… Jack Kerouac
“ When men learnt to talk in the beginning of the civilised word they used language not as a means of communication alone but as a means of excluding others--using it as a way of setting themselves apar… Charlotte Lamb
“ The collective consciousness of mankind defines the existence and sustainability of this civilization. Toba Beta
“ I am torn between the freedom of this adventure and the benefits of civilization despite its constraints. Sara Sheridan
“ Here is the chance for young women and young men of devotion to lift again the banner of humanity and to walk toward a civilization which will be free and intelligent; which will be healthy and unafra… W.E.B. Du Bois
“ I came to see that man finds meaning in his existence only through the active demonstration of his human self, a cosmos comprising the entire constellation of life's factors: culture, civilization, tr… Pramoedya Ananta Toer
“ Throughout human history, countries rise and fall. But not America--we continue to rise and rise, like dough, until Jesus bakes us in the fiery Afterscape of the Rapture. Stephen Colbert
“ It is a science fact that some animals do dream.It'll someday lead them to places better than zoo. Toba Beta
“ It oughtn't to need a war to make us talk to each other in buses, and invent our own amusements in the evenings, and live simply, and eat sparingly, and recover the use of our legs, and get up early e… Jan Struther
“ Spiritual activity, education, civilization, culture, the idea are all vague, indefinite concepts, under the banner of which it is quite convenient to use words that have a still less clear meaning an… Leo Tolstoy
“ [N]othing about a book is so unmistakable and so irreplaceable as the stamp of the cultured mind. I don't care what the story is about or what may be the momentary craze for books that appear to have… Dorothy L. Sayers
“ Modern civilization depends on science … James Smithson was well aware that knowledge should not be viewed as existing in isolated parts, but as a whole, each portion of which throws light on all the… Joseph Henry
