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civilization luxury selfishness
A semi-civilized state of society, equally removed from the extremes of barbarity and of refinement, seems to be that particular meridian under which all the reciprocities and gratuities of hospitality do most readily flourish and abound. For it so happens that the ease, the luxury, and the abundance of the highest state of civilization, are as productive of selfishness, as the difficulties, the privations, and the sterilities of he lowest. Charles Caleb Colton
civilization saws ends
I saw someone peeing in Jermym Street the other day. I thought, is this the end of civilization as we know it? Or is it simply someone peeing in Jermyn Street? Alan Bennett
civilization solitude going-out
Modern civilization is so complex as to make the devotional life all but impossible. It wears us out by multiplying distractions and beats us down by destroying our solitude, where otherwise we might drink and renew our strength before going out to face the world again. Aiden Wilson Tozer
civilization doubt moral
I have no doubt that historians will conclude that we of the twentieth century had intelligence enough to create a great civilization but not the moral wisdom to preserve it.
civilization stuff jingles
Freedom!- is the fatuous jingle of our civilization, but only those deprived of it have the barest inkling re: what the stuff actually is. David Mitchell
civilization creating alternatives
It's a difficult business, creating a new, alternative civilization. David Graeber
civilization climate-change humans
More than any other time in history, the 1990s will be a turning point for human civilization. David Suzuki
civilization age generations
Generations do not age. Every youth of any period, any civilization, has the same possibilities as always. Cesare Pavese
civilization savages fragility
They do not understand the fragility of civilization and the constant nearness of savage nature. Camille Paglia
division-of-labor people love-one-another
People do not cooperate under the division of labor because they love or should love one another. They cooperate because this best serves their own interests. Ludwig von Mises
division-of-labor effort devil
God and the Devil are an effort after specialization and the division of labor. Samuel Butler
division-of-labor common process
When profits are pursued by geographic interchange of goods, so that commerce for profit becomes the central mechanism of the system, we usually call it "commercial capitalism." In such a system goods are conveyed from ares where they are more common (and therefore cheaper) to areas where they are less common (and therefore less cheap). This process leads to regional specialization and to division of labor, both in agricultural production and in handicrafts. Carroll Quigley
division-of-labor peaceful society
Every step by which an individual substitutes concerted action for isolated action results in an immediate and recognizable improvement in his conditions. The advantages derived from peaceful cooperation and division of labor are universal.
division-of-labor perfection mind
The division of labor, which has brought such perfection in mechanical industries, is altogether fatal when applied to productions of the mind. All work of the mind is superior in proportion as the mind that produces it is universal. Napoleon Bonaparte
division-of-labor horizon phases
In a higher phase of communist society... only then can the narrow horizon of bourgeois right be fully left behind and society inscribe on its banners: from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs. Karl Marx
division-of-labor competition together
The more the division of labor and the application of machinery extend, the more does competition extend among the workers, the more do their wages shrink together.
division-of-labor ghouls vampire
Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks.
division-of-labor dignity conditions
The societal division of labor obtains the dignity of an ontological condition. Herbert Marcuse
development metaphor form
Now, that can be a traditional form or it can be something you're inventing. It can be the development of a metaphor, the working through of a metaphor. Edward Hirsch
development paradise mathematics
No one shall expel us from the paradise which Cantor has created for us. Expressing the importance of Cantor's set theory in the development of mathematics. David Hilbert
development financial economic
Developments in financial markets can have broad economic effects felt by many outside the markets. Ben Bernanke
development needs generations
We must follow the wisdom of the Brundtland Report. We must pursue development that meets the needs of the present generation without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their needs. Ban Ki-moon
development world stage
The history of the world shows that peoples and societies do not have to pass through a fixed series of stages in the course of development. Aung San Suu Kyi
development way visibility
In true open source development, theres lots of visibility all the way through the development process. Brian Behlendorf
development poverty causes
poverty has no causes. Only prosperity has causes. Analogically, heat is a result of active processes; it has causes. But cold is not the result of any processes; it is only the absence of heat. Just so, the great cold of poverty and economic stagnation is merely the absence of economic development. Jane Jacobs
development corporations ontario
When I was planning Family Viewing, the Ontario Film Development Corporation came into existence. Atom Egoyan
development proportion increase
Woman's discontent increases in exact proportion to her development. Elizabeth Cady Stanton