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civilization people relaxation
To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level. Bertrand Russell
civilization cities world
Today every city, town, or village is affected by it. We have entered the Neon Civilization and become a plastic world.. It goes deeper than its visual manifestations, it affects moral matters; we are engaged, as astrophysicists would say, on a decaying orbit. Raymond Loewy
civilization effort shadow
The easily ridiculed, so-so status quo often hides Herculean efforts by those whom we take for granted, and who, working in the shadows, guarantee civilization instead of chaos. Victor Davis Hanson
civilization revolution
Revolution is the larva of civilization. Victor Hugo
civilization imagination quality
The quantity of civilization is measured by the quality of imagination. Victor Hugo
civilization use barbarians
Despite our complicated civilization, so called, or perhaps on account of it, we are all of us a mere set of barbarians, who find it less trouble to provide a new, cheap, and shoddy thing than to get the full use and full pleasure out of a finely-made and carefully-chosen old one. Vernon Lee
civilization alaska airports
We are the first atheistic and global, all-embracing civilization. You cannot tell whether you are sitting at an airport in Hong Kong or in a hotel in Alaska. Everything is instrumentalized, subjected to a short-term purpose. It is quite possible that in such a situation any sense of a deeper meaning gets lost. Vaclav Havel
civilization people democracy
It would appear that the traditional parliamentary democracies can offer no fundamental opposition to that automatism of technological civilization and the industrial-consumer society, for they too are being dragged helplessly along by it. People are manipulated in ways that are infinitely more subtle and refined than the brutal methods used in post-totalitarian societies. Vaclav Havel
civilization modern accepted
A modern civilization is only possible when it is accepted that singular beings exist and express themselves freely. Tahar Ben Jelloun
society way vegetarian
You can shoot the tiger, or stay out of his way, but you cannot pronounce him a vegetarian. Richard Mitchell
society
Just as important as our society as a whole are our small communities: our neighborhoods, workplaces and schools. Jens Stoltenberg
society life-is process
Life is simply the reification of the process of living. Ernst Mayr
society thousand ten
These families, you know, are our upper crust, not upper ten thousand. James F. Cooper
society disease want
Those who have resources within themselves, who can dare to live alone, want friends the least, but, at the same time, best know how to prize them the most. But no company is far preferable to bad, because we are more apt to catch the vices of others than their virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health. Charles Caleb Colton
culture talent insolence
Talent is culture with insolence. Aristotle
culture deep embedded
embedded deep in the culture of the country. Arlen Specter
culture favourite humour
Every culture loves scatological humour. That's always a favourite. Alex D. Linz
culture cried
We're the culture that cried wolf. Chuck Palahniuk
culture gravestone categories
I'm going to put that on my gravestone. "He created such a category of unwanted pop culture - - Famous for directing unwanted cultural references" Tim Burton
culture music-is parts-of-life
Music is not an acquired culture... it is an active part of life. Isaac Stern
culture gambling playing taboos women
Gambling has become much more normative in our culture, in our society, and in the media. If there were taboos about women only playing bingo, they've been erased. Keith Whyte
culture danger periods
The danger of our culture.- We belong to a period of which the culture is in danger of being destroyed by the appliances of culture. Friedrich Nietzsche
culture breathe reason
When we revolt it’s not for a particular culture. We revolt simply because, for many reasons, we can no longer breathe Frantz Fanon