Quotes about civilization
civilization evolution handed healer helper hundred intelligence passed planet rescued stood thousand
Evolution made civilization steward of this planet. A hundred thousand years later, the steward stood before evolution not helper but destroyer, not healer but parasite. So evolution withdrew its gift, passed civilization by, rescued the planet from intelligence and handed it to love. Richard Bach
civilization fan god talk talking western
It's only Western civilization that, God forbid, you talk about dying, when it's the only thing we know for certain, right? Everyone's going to die, so what's the big problem? 'Oh, God. Don't talk about it. Don't think about it.' I mean, I'm one of them. I'm not a big fan of talking about dying. Abel Ferrara
civilization belief produce
Godlessness invariably produces vulgarity. Civilization is the product of belief. Cynthia Ozick
civilization luxury goal
The goal of every culture is to decay through over-civilization; the factors of decadence, -- luxury, skepticism, weariness and superstition, -- are constant. The civilization of one epoch becomes the manure of the next. Cyril Connolly
civilization next decadence
The civilization of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.
civilization forgiven civilized
The civilized are those who get more out of life than the uncivilized, and for this we are not likely to be forgiven.
civilization elderly political
A commonplace of political rhetoric has it that the quality of a civilization may be measured by how it cares for its elderly. Just as surely, the future of a society may be forecast by how it cares for its young. Daniel Patrick Moynihan
civilization nihilism culture
Nihilism is a natural consequence of a culture (or civilization) ruled and regulated by categories that mask manipulation, mastery and domination of peoples and nature. Cornel West
civilization dachau foolish
The things I believed in dont exist any more. It's foolish to pretend that they do. Western Civilization finally went up in smoke in the chimneys at Dachau but I was too infatuated to see it. I see it now. Cormac McCarthy
civilization house way
If we built houses the way we build software, the first woodpecker to come along would destroy civilization. Clifford Stoll
civilization heard hundred likely otherwise quite radio several
I think it quite likely that we are the only civilization within several hundred light years; otherwise we would have heard radio waves. Stephen Hawking
civilization food junk
You can't have a healthy civilization without healthy soil. You can't have junk food and have healthy people. Joel Salatin
civilization component interest involved processes simplicity
Must simplicity and humanity go under in the interest of progress? What is the most important component of civilization - is it human or mechanical? Must thought processes become involved and insincere? Must the class-struggle warp those who are involved in it? Peter Abrahams
civilization barbarism tendencies
The ultimate tendency of civilization is towards barbarism. David Hare
civilization survival strategy
When the survival strategy of a civilization is invalidated, in all of human history none have ever turned back from the brink. Daniel Suarez
civilization agriculture founders
The farmers are the founders of civilization. Daniel Webster
civilization jail people
You can tell a lot about a civilization by the quality of the people found in its jails. David Gerrold
civilization looks stories
If you look at any ancient civilization, they've all used fantasy stories to train the young. David Gemmell
civilization unbroken way
The notion of a separate organism is clearly an abstraction, as is also its boundary. Underlying all this is unbroken wholeness even though our civilization has developed in such a way as to strongly emphasize the separation into parts. David Bohm
civilization key mind open true
The open mind is key to true understanding.
civilization human saved victory
This victory saved human civilization and prevented a retrogression of history, Hu Jintao
civilization normal spread wheel written
I would say colonialism is a wonderful thing. It spread civilization to Africa. Before it they had no written language, no wheel as we know it, no schools, no hospitals, not even normal clothing.
civilization fill leisure
To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization. Arnold J. Toynbee
civilization gasoline chemistry
I would have been dead if it weren't for that great gift to civilization from the Chemistry Department of Harvard, which was napalm, or sticky jellied gasoline. Kurt Vonnegut
civilization ideas might
Where do I get my ideas from? You might as well have asked that of Beethoven. He was goofing around in Germany like everybody else, and all of a sudden this stuff came gushing out of him. It was music. I was goofing around like everybody else in Indiana, and all of a sudden stuff came gushing out. It was disgust with civilization.
civilization museums dancer
Civil servants and priests, soldiers and ballet-dancers, schoolmasters and police constables, Greek museums and Gothic steeples, civil list and services list -- the common seed within which all these fabulous beings slumber in embryo is taxation. Karl Marx
civilization environmental done
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.
civilization perfection humanity
The sole precoccupation of this learned society was the destruction of humanity for philanthropic reasons and the perfection of weapons as instruments of civilization. Jules Verne
civilization desert onions
It's hard to imagine a civilization without onions; in one form or another their flavor blends into almost everything in the meal except the desert. Julia Child
civilization giving darkness
Shall we go on conferring our Civilization upon the peoples that sit in darkness, or shall we give those poor things a rest? Mark Twain
civilization barbarians human-nature
Civilization largely consists in hiding human nature. When the barbarian learns to hide it we account him enlightened.
civilization paper tails
If you will notice, there is seldom a telegram in a paper which fails to show up one or more members & beneficiaries of our Civilization as promenading with his shirt-tail up & the rest of his regalia in the wash.
civilization ideas vanity
My idea of our civilization is that it is a shoddy, poor thing and full of cruelties, vanities, arrogances, meannesses and hypocrisies.