#civilization

Real freedom lies in wildness, not in civilization. ↗

— Charles Lindbergh

#freedom #lies #real #real freedom #wildness

Of course, one way of thinking about all of life and civilization is as being about how the world registers and processes information. Certainly that's what sex is about; that's what history is about. ↗

— Seth Lloyd

#being #certainly #civilization #course #history

America may be unique in being a country which has leapt from barbarism to decadence without touching civilization. ↗

— John O'Hara

#barbarism #being #civilization #country #decadence

We've persevered because of a belief we share with the Iraqi people - a belief that out of the ashes of war, a new beginning could be born in this cradle of civilization. Through this remarkable chapter in the history of the United States and Iraq, we have met our responsibility. Now, it's time to turn the page. ↗

— Barack Obama

#because #beginning #belief #born #chapter

Feminists are in an untenable position, defending something they no longer believe in, and which history will force them to recognize was destructive of most of the central pillars of civilization. I'm just the first one to point it out publicly. ↗

— Dave Sim

#central #civilization #defending #destructive #feminists

Well, we can't afford blindness anymore. There are tens of thousands of thugs who loathe liberty and love death, and want to annihilate Western civilization. ↗

— Tony Snow

#annihilate #anymore #blindness #civilization #death

Art is like a border of flowers along the course of civilization. ↗

— Lincoln Steffens

#art #border #civilization #course #flowers

I would like to see us get this place right first before we have the arrogance to put significantly flawed civilizations out onto other planets, even though they may be utterly uninhabited. ↗

— Patrick Stewart

#before #civilizations #even #first #flawed

It is what you do from now on that will either move our civilization forward a few tiny steps, or else... begin to march us steadily backward. ↗

— Patrick Stewart

#begin #civilization #either #else #few

Civilization is the making of civil persons. ↗

— John Ruskin

#civilization #making #persons