Quotes about civilization
civilization decline economic eventual global leading path today toward
Our global civilization today is on an economic path that is environmentally unsustainable, a path that is leading us toward economic decline and eventual collapse. Lester Brown
civilization space trying
I would be very ashamed of my civilization if we did not try to find out if there is life in outer space. Carl Sagan
civilization cosmos vastness
In the vastness of the Cosmos there must be other civilizations far older and more advanced than ours.
civilization ideas tuesday
For all I know we may be visited by a different extraterrestrial civilization every second Tuesday, but there's no support for this appealing idea. The extraordinary claims are not supported by extraordinary evidence.
civilization space space-travel
Any civilization that doesn't develop space travel dies.
civilization doe lapses
Extremes produce reaction. Beware that our boasted civilization does not lapse into barbarism. Antoine Rivarol
civilization return lovers
As a lover of truth, the national propaganda of all the belligerent nations sickened me. As a lover of civilization, the return to barbarism appalled me. Bertrand Russell
civilization levels savages
Among human beings, the subjection of women is much more complete at a certain level of civilization than it is among savages. And the subjection is always reinforced by morality.
civilization long psychology
Whether science-and indeed civilization in general-can long survive depends upon psychology, that is to say, it depends upon what human beings desire.
civilization opened origins window
It has opened a window into the very origins of Maya civilization.
civilization empire expression great gross huge path production utility waiting
Gross utility kills beauty. We now have all over the world huge production of things, huge organizations, huge administrations of empire - all obstructing the path of life. Civilization is waiting for a great consummation, for an expression of its so Rabindranath Tagore
civilization enormous environmental given single technology took
Civilization has given us enormous successes: going to the moon, technology. But then this is the civilisation that took us to debt, environmental crisis, every single crisis. We need a civilization where we say goodbye to these things. Muhammad Yunus
civilization devoured glance lived marrow raw whose wildness
Give me a wildness whose glance no civilization can endure,-as if we lived on the marrow of koodoos devoured raw Henry David Thoreau
civilization history moral nice record
K is for Kenghis Khan. He was a very nice person. History has no record of him. There is a moral in that, somewhere. Harlan Ellison
civilization local pillar
I was a glassy-eyed undergraduate. It was a pillar of local civilization. Stewart Brand
civilization lasts analysis
In the last analysis civilization is based upon the food supply. Will Durant
civilization atmosphere global-warming
Unless we stop dumping 70 million tons of global warming pollution into the atmosphere every 24 hours, which we are doing right now ... the continued acceleration of this pollution would destroy the future of human civilization. Al Gore
civilization america risk
The survival of the United States of America as we know it is at risk. And even more — if more should be required — the future of human civilization is at stake.
civilization prosperous-future healthy
The consensus is clear. We need an immediate and determined shift to a clean, renewable economy. The continued mass burning of fossil fuels is inconsistent with a healthy, prosperous future for our civilization.
civilization earth energy
Our insatiable drive to rummage deep beneath the surface of the earth is a willful expansion of our dysfunctional civilization into Nature.
civilization psychology branches
Technological civilization... rests fundamentally on power-driven machinery which transcends the physical limits of its human directors, multiplying indefinitely the capacity for the production of goods. Science in all its branches - physics, chemistry, biology, and psychology - is the servant and upholder of this system Charles A. Beard
civilization two tea
Ah, there's nothing like tea in the afternoon. When the British Empire collapses, historians will find that it had made but two invaluable contributions to civilization - this tea ritual and the detective novel. Ayn Rand
civilization islam spain
From India to Spain, the brilliant civilization of Islam flourished. What was lost to christendom at this time was not lost to civilization, but quite the contrary...
civilization people relaxation
To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level.
civilization spaghetti roman-civilization
A nation of spaghetti eaters cannot restore Roman civilization! Benito Mussolini
civilization religion highest
Religion is civilization, the highest. Benjamin Disraeli
civilization dwelling house
The best security for civilization is the dwelling, and upon properly appointed and becoming dwellings depends, more than anything else, the improvement of mankind.
civilization tendencies monarchy
The tendency of an advanced civilization is in truth monarchy.
civilization training ifs
If education is beaten by training, civilization dies. C. S. Lewis
civilization effort progress
Whenever Nature's bounty is in danger of exhaustion, the chemist has sought for a substitute. The conquest of disease has made great progress as a result of your efforts. Wherever we look, the work of the chemist has raised the level of our civilization and has increased the productive capacity of the nation. Waste materials, formerly cast aside, are now being utilized. Calvin Coolidge
civilization levels looks
Wherever we look, the work of the chemist has raised the level of our civilization and has increased the productive capacity of the nation.
civilization firsts complicated
A civilization is complicated, in the first place, because it is dynamic; that is, it is constantly changing in the passage of time, until it has perished. Carroll Quigley
civilization long historical
It is clear that every civilization undergoes a process of historical change. We can see that a civilization comes into existence, passes through a long experience, and eventually goes out of existence.