Quotes about civilization
civilization comeback insult
Ultimately, there is no compromise. Westerners will either retain their civilization, including the right to insult and blaspheme, or not. Daniel Pipes
civilization errors trials
Yes,I'm afraid you're right. Trial and error isn't a bad way to learn how to build an aircraft,but it can be a disastrous way to learn how to build a civilization. Daniel Quinn
civilization looks unions
If you look at great human civilizations, from the Roman Empire to the Soviet Union, you will see that most do not fail simply due to external threats but because of internal weakness, corruption, or a failure to manifest the values and ideals they espouse. Cory Booker
civilization degrade
Civilization degrades the many to exalt the few. Amos Bronson Alcott
civilization culture architecture
Architecture belongs to culture, not to civilization. Alvar Aalto
civilization people target
The world generally speaking is now drifting on a more and more devastating course towards the absurd target of extermination - or rather, to be more exact - of the northern hemisphere's towns, fields, and the people who have developed our civilization. Alva Myrdal
civilization age process
The age in which we live can only be characterized as one of barbarism. Our civilization is in the process not only of being militarized, but also being brutalized.
civilization age church
Surely that little pseudo-gothic church on Broadway, hidden amongst the skyscrapers, is symbolic of the age! On the whole face of the globe the civilization that has conquered it has failed to build a temple or a tomb. Andre Malraux
civilization two culture
Learning is nothing without cultivated manners, but when the two are combined in a woman, you have one of the most exquisite products of civilization. Andre Maurois
civilization air elements
An immaterial but visible being that inhabited the air when the air was an element and before it was fatally polluted with factory smoke, sewer gas and similar products of civilization. Ambrose Bierce
civilization noise ears
NOISE, n. A stench in the ear. Undomesticated music. The chief product and authenticating sign of civilization.
civilization great
We know we need civilization and laws and procedures, but isn't it frustrating? Wouldn't it be great if we could just do what we needed to do? Lee Child
civilization world difficulty
Of all nations, those submit to civilization with the most difficulty which habitually live by the chase. Alexis de Tocqueville
civilization balance disturbed
The disastrous feature of our civilization is that it is far more developed materially than spiritually. Its balance is disturbed. Albert Schweitzer
civilization movement ethical
Only an ethical movement can rescue us from barbarism, and the ethical comes into existence only in individuals.
civilization coming explain fight flags fly house lawn south threat today together white
More than 170 flags will fly on the south lawn of the White House today as a way to visually and symbolically explain that the world is coming together to fight this threat to civilization and to freedom. Karen Hughes
civilization earth problem
The main problem is that we, as an Earth civilization, have not come to understand ourselves - see ourselves in a cosmic sense at all. Edgar Mitchell
civilization perspective ego
Transcendence gets you beyond ego. If you go beyond ego, you see all of this in a more decent perspective and you can start to put all the pieces together. We haven't done that yet. Not as a civilization.
civilization tin-cans path
The path of civilization is paved with tin cans. Elbert Hubbard
civilization bosoms respectability
Respectability is the dickey on the bosom of civilization.
civilization names worthy
There has never yet been a human society worthy of the name of civilization. Civilization remains a remote ideal. Edward Abbey
civilization behinds
You can't leave civilization behind entirely. Dirk Benedict
civilization choices style
Style is about the choices you make to create the aspects of civilization that you wish to uphold. David Bowie
civilization civilized drawn fully office people purse stealing
No people is fully civilized where a distinction is drawn between stealing an office and stealing a purse Theodore Roosevelt
civilization model rest
so it will become a model of civilization for the rest of the world. Mahmoud Abbas
civilization taught students
Of course, all students should learn African history, as they should learn the history of other continents and major civilizations. But this history should be taught accurately and based on the best scholarship, not ideology or politics. Diane Ravitch
civilization america political
America became a great civilization thanks to a culture based on the value of having to earn almost everything an American got in life. As it abandons this value, it will become a mediocre civilization. And eventually it will not be America. It will be a large Sweden, and just as influential as the smaller one. Dennis Prager
civilization environmental cliffs
When civilization stands at the edge of a cliff, a step forward doesn't make much sense. Denis Hayes
civilization barbarians fascination
The destruction that barbarians leave behind has a grim fascination, doesn't it? We're reminded how thin is the veneer of civilization. Dean Koontz
civilization study problem
The longer I live and the more I study the question, the more I am convinced that it is not so much the problem of what you will do with Negro, as what the Negro will do with you and your 'civilization'. Booker T. Washington
civilization voice individuality
The writer in western civilization has become not a voice of his tribe, but of his individuality. This is a very narrow-minded situation. Aharon Appelfeld
civilization alcohol tragedy
The legalized liquor business is the tragedy of our civilization. Alcohol is the greatest and most blighting curse of our modern civilization. The liquor seller is simply and only a privileged malefactor - a criminal. Abraham Lincoln
civilization device
LOCK-AND-KEY, n. The distinguishing device of civilization and enlightenment.