“I believe with all my heart that civilization has produced nothing finer than a man or woman who thinks and practices true tolerance. Some one has said that most of us don't think, we just occasionally rearrange our prejudices. And I suspect that even today, with all the progress we have made in liberal thought, the quality of true tolerance is as rare as the quality of mercy. That men of all creeds have fundamental common objectives is a fact one must learn by the process of education. How to work jointly toward these objectives must be learned by experience.” ThinkingMenBelieveHeartArtMadeSaidFactsTodayBeliefI BelieveProcessCommonEducationQualityPracticeProgressMy HeartCivilizationMercyPrejudiceFundamentalsToleranceObjectivesHaving FunSuspectsCreeds Author:Frank Knox
“In the zone of perdition where my youth went as if to complete its education, one would have said that the portents of an imminent collapse of the whole edifice of civilization had made an appointment.” IfsMadeSaidWholeYouthCivilizationZoneCollapseAppointmentsEdificePerditionPortents Author:Guy Debord
“The poet Melvin B. Tolson once said "A civilization is judged only in its decline." That made sense to me. I would imagine the same is true for poets and tennis players.” MadeSaidImaginePlayerPoetCivilizationTennisJudgedDeclineTennis Player Author:Nikki Giovanni
“A lot is said, by foreigners and the left, about America being a violent society. Yet if you subtract the crime statistics for its largest cities places that have been under the strict political control of so-called "progressives", sometimes for many generations what remains, the real America, is the most peaceful, productive, prosperous, and truly progressive civilization in all of human history.” IfsHumansHas BeensSaidRealSometimesAmericaPoliticalLeftCitiesGenerationsCrimeCivilizationRemainsViolentPeacefulProductiveStatisticsProgressiveStrictHuman HistoryProsperousForeigners Author:L. Neil Smith
“I believe that the civilization India evolved is not to be beaten in the world. Nothing can equal the seeds sown by our ancestors, Rome went, Greece shared the same fate; the might of the Pharaohs was broken; Japan has become Westernized; of China nothing can be said; but India is still, somehow or other, sound at the foundation.” WorldBelieveSaidStillsMightI BelieveSoundFateBrokenCivilizationEqualIndiaFoundationChinaSeedsJapanRomeAncestorBeatenGreeceRepublic DayPharaohsIndia Independence DayInspiring Independence DayIndian Independence Day Book:The Essential Writings Source: The Essential Writings
“As I have said for many years throughout this land, we're borrowing money from China to buy oil from the Persian Gulf to burn it in ways that destroy the future of human civilization. Every bit of that has to change.” WayYearsHumansSaidBitsLandCivilizationChinaOilBorrowingPersianHuman CivilizationPersian GulfBorrowing Money Author:Al Gore