Quotes about civil
civilization close common land leads liberal lived living northern orthodoxy people quite ruined
The common liberal orthodoxy that living close to the land leads to eco-awareness is historically naive, considering that Mesopotamia, northern Africa, and the Mayan civilization were ruined by people who had lived there quite a long while. Gregory Benford
civilization firsts trash
...the first sign of civilization is always trash. Neal Shusterman
civilization handwriting casual
Handwriting is civilization's casual encephalogram. Lance Morrow
civilization self tradition
A commercial civilization is money-oriented, profit-oriented. Commercial values always tend to wrench a society free of tradition.Economics from education to public service is being reorganized on the self-destructive basis of self-interest. John Ralston Saul
civilization democracy needs
The best defence [for a democracy, for the public good] is aggressiveness, the aggressiveness of the involved citizen. We need to reassert that slow, time-consuming, inefficient, boring process that requires our involvement; it is called 'being a citizen.' The public good is not something that you can see. It is not static. It is a process. It is the process by which democratic civilizations build themselves.
civilization may creation
Civilization may be said indeed to be the creation of its outlaws. James Joyce
civilization burning fuel
Burning all the fossil fuels will destroy the planet we know, Creation, the planet of stable climate in which civilization developed. James Hansen
civilization coal climate-change
Coal is the single greatest threat to civilization and all life on our planet.
civilization world earth
Planet Earth, creation, the world in which civilization developed, the world with climate patterns that we know and stable shorelines, is in imminent peril.
civilization differences political
All political theories assume, of course, that most individuals are very ignorant. Those who plead for liberty differ from the rest in that they include among the ignorant themselves as well as the wisest. Compared with the totality of knowledge which is continually utilized in the evolution of a dynamic civilization, the difference between the knowledge that the wisest and that the most ignorant individual can deliberately employ is comparatively insignificant. Friedrich August von Hayek
civilization growth important
It may indeed prove to be far the most difficult and not the least important task for human reason rationally to comprehend its own limitations. It is essential for the growth of reason that as individuals we should bow to forces and obey principles which we cannot hope fully to understand, yet on which the advance and even the preservation of civilization depend.
civilization ignorant acquisition
Each member of society can have only a small fraction of the knowledge possessed by all, and...each is therefore ignorant of most of the facts on which the working of society rests...civilization rests on the fact that we all benefit from knowledge which we do not possess. And one of the ways in which civilization helps us to overcome that limitation on the extent of individual knowledge is by conquering intelligence, not by the acquisition of more knowledge, but by the utilization of knowledge which is and which remains widely dispersed among individuals.
civilization people progress
The measure of progress of civilization is the progress of the people. George Bancroft
civilization government mind
The exact measure of the progress of civilization is the degree in which the intelligence of the common mind has prevailed over wealth and brute force.
civilization evolution human million race tame ten thousand wild
The evolution of the human race will not be accomplished in the ten thousand years of tame animals, but in the million years of wild animals, because man is and will always be a wild animal. Charles Darwin
civil cover government head ministers officials plates private privilege service stop
The Head of the Civil Service should stop the use of private plates because ministers and other Government officials use the privilege to cover up abuse.
civilization civilized control defining depression despite destiny earthquake giant great human left mark moment reminds technology
The great depression left a mark on all of the civilized world. It was a defining moment like a giant earthquake that reminds us of how little control we have over human destiny -- despite our technology and innovation. Will Eisner
civilization effort tragedy
Every civilization that has ever existed has ultimately collapsed. History is a tale of efforts that failed, or aspirations that weren’t realized . So, as a historian, one has to live with a sense of the inevitability of tragedy. Henry A. Kissinger
civilization
Every civilization that has ever existed has ultimately collapsed.
civilization justice brotherhood
We have made, and still are making, enormous advances on material lines. It is necessary that we commensurately advance on moral lines. Civilization, as it progresses, requires a higher conscience, a keener sense of justice, a warmer brotherhood, a wider, loftier, truer public spirit. Henry George
civilization distribution-of-wealth prosperity
What has destroyed every previous civilization has been the tendency to the unequal distribution of wealth and power.
civilization sacred portal
Nature is rarely allowed to enter the sacred portals of civilized society. Hendrik Willem Van Loon
civilization mind ease
In my mind nothing is more abhorrent than a life of ease. None of us has any right to ease. There is no place in civilization for the idler. Henry Ford
civilization lit rubble
Civilization - a heap of rubble scavenged by scrawny English Lit. vultures. Malcolm Muggeridge
civil-rights separation segregation
We don't go for segregation. We go for separation. Separation is when you have your own. You control your own economy; you control your own politics; you control your own society; you control your own everything. You have yours and you control yours; we have ours and we control ours. Malcolm X
civilization violence different
A civilization based on nonviolence must be different from that organized for violence. Mahatma Gandhi
civilization want operations
I want co-operation between nations for the salvaging of civilization, but co-operation presupposes free nations worthy of co-operation.
civilization progress purpose
Civilizations have come and gone and, in spite of our vaunted progress, I am tempted to ask again and again, 'To what purpose?'
civilization genius
My Swaraj is to keep intact the genius of our civilization.
civilized conditions corporate
Nonviolent nationalism is a necessary condition of corporate or civilized life.
civilization greed india
Our non-co-operation is with the system the English have established in India, with the material civilization and its attendant greed and exploitation of the weak.
civilization facts theory
Civilizations have been founded and maintained on theories which refused to obey facts. Joe Orton
civil fought hard instead
And my mother fought hard for civil rights so that instead of a mop, I could hold this microphone. Julian Castro