Aly Khan
Aly Khan

The contribution of Islam to history and modern civilization is the product of the efforts of peoples of many races and tongues which came to accept its way of life.

Franz Boas
Franz Boas

The disease of mutual distrust among nations is the bane of modern civilization.

Hans Jonas
Hans Jonas

Responsibility has become the fundamental imperative in modern civilization, and it should be an unavoidable criterion to assess and evaluate human actions, including, in a special way, development activities.

Ko Wen-je
Ko Wen-je

The longer a region is in contact with modern civilization, the higher the degree to which the society in the region is civilized.

Michael Shellenberger
Michael Shellenberger

The reason renewables can't power modern civilization is because they were never meant to. One interesting question is why anybody ever thought they could.

P. J. O'Rourke
P. J. O'Rourke

Not much was really invented during the Renaissance, if you don't count modern civilization.

Robert Shapiro
Robert Shapiro

To me, the Holocaust stands alone as the most horrible human event in modern civilization.

Serj Tankian
Serj Tankian

I believe very firmly that indigenous populations had a really good, intuitive understanding of why we're here. And we're trying to gain that same understanding through psychology and intellect in modern civilization.

Thomas Mellon
Thomas Mellon

Violence and irrationality were so long and thoroughly cultivated among the Irish, and so perfectly ingrained into their nature, that modern civilization has as yet been unable to extract the virus.