Quotes Tagged With :civilization

In the cold, shivering twilight, preceding the daybreak of civilization, the dominating emotion of man....

Let us hope that the advent of a successful flying machine, now only dimly foreseen and nevertheless....

No one species shall make the life of the world its own.' … That's one expression of the law. Here's....

From my childhood I had heard read, and read the Bible myself. Morning and evening the sacred volume....

Yes, it's vital to make lifestyle choices to mitigate damage caused by being a member of industrialized....

Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it....

the veneer of civilization is exceedingly thin

Far from being the smartest possible biological species, we are probably better thought of as the stupidest....

Once, headed uptown on the 9 train, I noticed a sign posted by the Metropolitan Transit Authority advising....

During the first millennium BCE, even the beer-loving Mesopotamians turned their backs on beer, which....