“The money-changers have fled from their high seats in the temple of our civilization. We may now restore that temple to the ancient truths.” MayCivilizationAncientFinanceSeatsTemples Author:Franklin D. Roosevelt
“Money is the most important subject intellectual persons can investigate and reflect upon. It is so important that our present civilization may collapse unless it is widely understood and its defects remedied very soon.” WorldMayPersonsImportantMoneySubjectsCivilizationIntellectualUnderstoodCollapseDefectsMonetaryNew World Order Author:Robert W. Hemphill
“The Lord may want to colonise other Worlds with His new perfect children! What's the whole Universe for and all this huge amount of space if He's only interested in colonising one little Planet? What an incubation! What an incubator for other civilizations!-Right here on the New Earth and the Heavenly City!” IfsWorldWantMayChildrenLittlesWholeEarthUniverseSpacePerfectCitiesLordPlanetsHugeAmountCivilizationHeavenlyOther WorldsNew EarthIncubationPerfect Child Author:David Berg
“It may indeed prove to be far the most difficult and not the least important task for human reason rationally to comprehend its own limitations. It is essential for the growth of reason that as individuals we should bow to forces and obey principles which we cannot hope fully to understand, yet on which the advance and even the preservation of civilization depend.” ShouldHumansMayImportantReasonIndividualForceDifficultGrowthPrinciplesDependsCivilizationProveEssentialsTasksLimitationBowsPreservationHuman Reason Author:Friedrich August von Hayek
“Humiliating to human pride as it may be, we must recognize that the advance and even the preservation of civilization are dependent upon a maximum of opportunity for accidents to happen.” HumansMayHappensOpportunitySocietyPrideCivilizationAccidentsDependentPreservationMaximumHumiliating Author:Friedrich August von Hayek
“If the world suffers from mental deterioration or from moral degradation, then something goes wrong at the very root of civilization or culture. Even though that civilization may drag out for a considerable period, it grows less and less vital and ultimately tumbles down.” IfsWorldMaySufferingCultureGrowsMoralPeriodsCivilizationRootsDragDegradationDeterioration Book:Jawaharlal Nehru: Excepts from His Writings and Speeches Source: Jawaharlal Nehru: Excepts from His Writings and Speeches
“On Mars, the crumbling remains of ancient civilizations may be found, mutely testifying to the one-time glory of a dying world.” WorldMayFoundDyingCivilizationGloryRemainsAncientOne TimeMarsCrumblingAncient CivilizationsTestifying Author:P. E. Cleator
“People who think of themselves as tough-minded and realistic, among them influential political leaders and businessmen as well as go-getters and hustlers of smaller caliber, tend to take it for granted that human nature is selfish and that life is a struggle in which only the fittest may survive. According to this philosophy, the basic law by which man must live, in spite of his surface veneer of civilization, is the law of the jungle. The "fittest" are those who can bring to the struggle superior force, superior cunning, and superior ruthlessness.” PeopleThinkingMenHumansWellsMayPhilosophyLawPoliticalLife IsForceLeaderStruggleHuman NatureCivilizationToughSurfaceSelfishSuperiorsGrantedSpiteRealisticBusinessmanJungleCunningInfluentialPolitical LeadersCaliberRuthlessnessVeneerLife Is A Struggle Author:S. I. Hayakawa
“We could tell them [alien civilization] things that we have discovered in the realm of mathematical physics, but there is stuff that I would like to know. There are some famous problems like how to bring gravitation and quantum physics together, the long-sought-after theory of quantum gravity. But it may be hard to understand the answer that comes back.” KnowsMayLongHardProblemTogetherStuffAnswersTheoryCivilizationPhysicsAliensMathematicalRealmsGravityQuantumQuantum PhysicsGravitation Author:Paul Davies
“For all I know we may be visited by a different extraterrestrial civilization every second Tuesday, but there's no support for this appealing idea. The extraordinary claims are not supported by extraordinary evidence.” KnowsMayIdeasDifferentSupportCivilizationEvidenceClaimsExtraordinaryTuesdayEvery SecondExtraterrestrial Author:Carl Sagan