The development of civilization and industry in general has always shown itself so active in the destruction of forests that everything that has been done for their conservation and production is completely insignificant in comparison.

The whole infrastructure of air travel was, and is, part of government policy. It is not a natural development of a free economic system – at least not in the way that is claimed. The same is true of the roads, of course.

You know, nothing is more important than education, because nowhere are our stakes higher; our future depends on the quality of education of our children today.

There has to be a global mission of human progress.

Nothing on this earth is standing still. It’s either growing or it’s dying. No matter if it’s a tree or a human being.

I suppose we need not go mourning the buffaloes. In the nature of things, they had to give place to better cattle, though the change might have been made without barbarous wickedness.

Swimming has its educational value – mental, moral, and physical – in giving you a sense of mastery over an element, and of power of saving life, and in the development of wind and limb.

In this industry, there’s a lot of cases of being a competitor in one way, but you’re often a customer and a vendor in another way. It’s not atypical in aerospace. Actually, it’s not that atypical in a lot of industries.

If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.

Civilization is the making of civil persons.

His lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly developed moral bankruptcy.

In ideal form of social control is an atomised collection of individuals focused on their own narrow concern, lacking the kinds of organisations in which they can gain information, develop and articulate their thoughts, and act constructively to achieve common ends.

Collecting facts is important. Knowledge is important. But if you don’t have an imagination to use the knowledge, civilization is nowhere.

This industry has been really good to me. It’s been a great life. I’m not through yet. I’m ready when you are, Mr. DeMille.

When I came into this industry, I was never afraid to be myself.

In the case of Apple, they did originally do production internally, but then along came unbelievably good outsourced manufacturing from companies like Foxconn. We don’t have that in the rocket business. There’s no Foxconn in the rocket business.

The spread of civilisation may be likened to a fire; first, a feeble spark, next a flickering flame, then a mighty blaze, ever increasing in speed and power.

You accept that this civilisation could be abolished and life will begin later on after a few thousand years because that is something that has happened in the history of this planet. When you have peace in yourself and accept, then you are calm enough to do something, but if you are carried by despair there is no hope.

God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools.

The upward course of a nation’s history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women.

The people of Egypt are an intelligent people with a glorious history who left their mark on civilization.

One civilization after another has been wrecked upon the attempt to secure sufficient leadership from a single group or class.

There is precious little in civilization to appeal to a Yeti.

Constant development is the law of life, and a man who always tries to maintain his dogmas in order to appear consistent drives himself into a false position.

We think that life develops spontaneously on Earth, so it must be possible for life to develop on suitable planets elsewhere in the universe. But we don’t know the probability that a planet develops life.

If you think the United States has stood still, who built the largest shopping center in the world?

The power and energy sectors are the biggest constituents of the infrastructure sector. If you ignore them, no development will happen.

Africa will thrive.

Nature is our eldest mother; she will do no harm.

Right now it’s only a notion, but I think I can get the money to make it into a concept, and later turn it into an idea.

Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree’s inclined.

I aspire my country eventually has a league where all players play 50 games.

I don’t look at a man who’s expert in one area as a specialist. I look at him as a rookie in ten other areas.

It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.

When you meet chimps you meet individual personalities. When a baby chimp looks at you it’s just like a human baby. We have a responsibility to them.

Industry need not wish.

To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization.

Unlike Europe, China can’t be intimidated. Europe backs down if the United States looks at it the wrong way. But China, they’ve been there for 3,000 years and are paying no attention to the barbarians and don’t see any need to.

Concentration is my motto – first honesty, then industry, then concentration.

It was because the chimps are so eye-catching, so like us and teach us so much that my work was recognised worldwide.

The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.

In the usual progress of things, the necessities of a nation in every stage of its existence will be found at least equal to its resources.

It’s more interesting for me to figure out how to be superior in areas where I’m naive, where I’m a novice.

In wildness is the preservation of the world.

I thought my life was mapped out. Research, living in the forest, teaching and writing. But in ’86 I went to a conference and realised the chimpanzees were disappearing. I had worldwide recognition and a gift of communication. I had to use them.

God, our Creator, has stored within our minds and personalities, great potential strength and ability. Prayer helps us tap and develop these powers.

It was the Law of the Sea, they said. Civilization ends at the waterline. Beyond that, we all enter the food chain, and not always right at the top.

The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.

A man’s growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.

The ideas associated with the problems of the development of science, as far as I can see by looking around me, are not of the kind that everyone appreciates.

The alliance in Jammu and Kashmir is one of the most important developments on the contemporary political scene.

The more you practice, the better you get, the more freedom you have to create.

America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.

We do not exploit our dolphins for profit.

‚Tis education forms the common mind; just as the twig is bent the tree’s inclined.

At first when I heard about climate change, I was a climate denier. I didn’t think it was happening. Because if there really was an existential crisis like that, that would threaten our civilisation, we wouldn’t be focusing on anything else. That would be our first priority. So I didn’t understand how that added up.

Animation is different from other parts. Its language is the language of caricature. Our most difficult job was to develop the cartoon’s unnatural but seemingly natural anatomy for humans and animals.

Publishing is in a kind of Jurassic age.

Latin America has much richer resources. You’d expect it to be far more advanced than East Asia, but it had the disadvantage of being under imperialist wings.

Anyone that’s involved in development has discovered that all the good work that’s been done in development has been undone by the AIDS emergency.

Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm.