"It's a small world, but we all run in big circles." Sasha Azevedo

"What a pitiable thing it is that our civilization can do no better for us than to make us slaves to indoor life, so that we have to go and take artificial exercise in order to preserve our health." George Wharton James, journalist, author, and speaker (1858-1923)

"Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill." Barbara Tuchman

"Newspapers are unable, seemingly to discriminate between a bicycle accident and the collapse of civilization." George Bernard Shaw

"Diplomacy is the art of letting somebody else have your way." David Frost (1939-____) English TV host

"The real index of civilization is when people are kinder than they need to be." Louis de Berniere, novelist (b. 1954)

"What its children become, that will the community become."Suzanne La Follette

"There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew." Marshall McLuhan, educator and philosopher (1911-1980)

"Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for education. Probably, no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both." Abraham Flexner, educator (1866-1959)

"Humans think they are smarter than dolphins because we build cars and buildings and start wars etc., and all that dolphins do is swim in the water, eat fish and play around. Dolphins believe that they are smarter for exactly the same reasons." Douglas Adams, writer, dramatist, and musician (1952-2001)

"We may all have come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now." Martin Luther King Jr.

"Society prepares the crime; the criminal commits it." Henry Thomas Buckle, historian (1821-1862)

"It isn't so much what's on the table that matters, as what's on the chairs." W.S. Gilbert

"You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements." Norman Douglas, novelist (1868-1952)

"Civilization is the encouragement of differences." Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869-1948)

"Civilisation advances by extending the number of operations we can perform without thinking about them." Alfred North Whitehead

"Society is like a stew. If you don't keep it stirred up you get a lot of scum on the top." Edward Abbey, naturalist and author (1927-1989)

"What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?" Ursula K. Le Guin, author (1929- )

“Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them.” Bill Vaughan

"The anthropologist is an art historian. Humanity's footprints were left by the creators not by the bureaucrats. In looking at history, we are looking at art. To understand a culture we look at what they created." Ruth Vaughan

"Natives who beat drums to drive off evil spirits are objects of scorn to smart Americans who blow horns to break up traffic jams." Mary Ellen Kelly

“Art is the signature of a civilization.” Beverly Sills