Quotes about civilization
civilization government police
With any new civilization... they have to have their own officers and police and governments and all that. Jimi Hendrix
civilization islam roles
The role of religions in the domination and destruction of African civilizations was ruthless... Islam was as guilty as all the rest. John Henrik Clarke
civilization light world
The first light of human consciousness and the world's first civilizations were in Africa.
civilization america people
The people of the United States have been fortunate in many things. One of the things in which we have been most fortunate has been that so far, due perhaps to certain basic virtues in our traditional ways of doing things, we have managed to keep the crisis of western civilization, which has devastated the rest of the world and in which we are as much involved as anybody, more or less at arm's length. John Dos Passos
civilization people threat
A lot of people thought of me as a threat to Western civilization. John Milius
civilization ethics
A civilization has the ethics it can afford Larry Niven
civilization pilates physical-fitness
Civilization impairs physical fitness. Joseph Pilates
civilization found altars
Wherever an altar is found, there civilization exists. Joseph de Maistre
civilization two racism
When one group rules another, the relationship between the two is political. When such an arrangement is carried out over a long period of time it develops an ideology (feudalism, racism, etc.). All historical civilizations are patriarchies: their ideology is male supremacy. Kate Millett
civilization source enjoyment
But that's just the aim of civilization - to make everything a source of enjoyment. Leo Tolstoy
civilization useless energy
When you can’t do something truly useful, you tend to vent the pent up energy in something useless but available, like snappy dressing. Lois McMaster Bujold
civilization water development
A nation that fails to plan intelligently for the development and protection of its precious waters will be condemned to wither because of its shortsightedness. The hard lessons of history are clear, written on the deserted sands and ruins of once proud civilizations. Lyndon B. Johnson
civilization tree done
If it should turn out that we have mishandled our own lives as several civilizations before us have done, it seems a pity that we should involve the violet and the tree frog in our departure. Loren Eiseley
civilization people priorities
The richest person in the world - in fact. All the riches in the world - couldn't provide you with anything like the endless, incredible loot available at your local library. You can measure the awareness, the breadth and the wisdom of a civilization, a nation, a people by the priority given to preserving these repositories of all that we are, all that we were, or will be. Malcolm Forbes
civilization machines sin
Machinery is the chief symbol of modern civilization; it represents a great sin. Mahatma Gandhi
civilization matter decay
... it is a matter of civilizing everyone or not being civilized at all: the decay has always come from a partial civilization. Freya Stark
civilization obvious-things decay
Every high civilization decays by forgetting obvious things. Gilbert K. Chesterton
civilization tree alive
A good civilisation spreads over us freely like a tree, varying and yielding because it is alive. A bad civilisation stands up and sticks out above us like an umbrella-artificial, mathematical in shape; not merely universal, but uniform.
civilization people islam
When people talk as if the Crusades were nothing more than an aggressive raid against Islam, they seem to forget in the strangest way that Islam itself was only an aggressive raid against the old and ordered civilization in these parts. I do not say it in mere hostility to the religion of Mahomet; I am fully conscious of many values and virtues in it; but certainly it was Islam that was the invasion and Christendom that was the thing invaded.
civilization tests profit
Once we allow ourselves to be disobedient to the test of an accountant's profit, we have begun to change our civilization. John Maynard Keynes
civilization people cornerstones
Some people die before their time so that others can live. It's a cornerstone of civilization. John Malkovich
civilization mind
A new civilization was not to be improvised by a single mind. John Lothrop Motley
civilization crafts invention
The sentence is the greatest human invention of civilization. John Banville
civilization survival
Survival must come before civilization. Lois Wyse
civilization priorities important
Western civilization has not yet learned the lesson that the energy we expend in 'getting things done' is less important than the moral strength it takes to decide what is worth doing and what is right to do. Sydney J. Harris
civilization class stories
Maybe they didn't want you to realize that every civilization has its weakness. There's always one thing we depend on. And if someone takes it away all that's left is some story in a history class. Scott Westerfeld
civilization degrees generations
Never before has a civilization reached such a degree of a contempt for life; never before has a generation, drowned in mortification, felt such a rage to live. Raoul Vaneigem
civilization atheism done
... All questions concerning the rise of Christianity are one: How was it done? How did a tiny and obscure messianic movement from the edge of the Roman Empire dislodge classical paganism and become the dominant faith of Western civilization? Although this is the only question, it requires many answers - no one thing led to the triumph of Christianity. Rodney Stark
civilization sickness illness
civilization is a transient sickness. Robinson Jeffers
civilization giving justice
Women know the damnation of charity because the habit of civilization has always been to throw them cheap alms rather than give them good wages. Rebecca West
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.