Quotes about civilization
civilization people way
People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization. Agnes Repplier
civilization tea england
English civilization rests largely upon tea and cricket, with mighty spurts of enjoyment on Derby Day, and at Newmarket.
civilization numbers individuality
You know, our sense of individuality is just the number one target of civilization. Alan Rudolph
civilization roots leisure
At the root of our civilization, there is the freedom of each person of thought, of belief, of opinion, of work, of leisure. Charles de Gaulle
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 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 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 differences people
I trust the time is nigh when, with the universal assent of civilized people, all international differences shall be determined without resort to arms by the benignant processes of civilization. Chester A. Arthur
civilization chinese heritage
I should like to say that I am as proud of my Chinese heritage and background as I am devoted to modern science, a part of human civilization of Western origin, to which I have dedicated and I shall continue to dedicate my work. Chen Ning Yang
civilization treats disabled
How a society treats its disabled is the true measure of a civilization. Chen Guangcheng
civilization agony abhorrent
The time is approaching when we shall consider it abhorrent to our civilization to allow a human being to die in prolonged agony which we should mercifully end in any other creature. Charlotte Perkins Gilman
civilization tables sin
Theory of the true civilization. It is not to be found in gas or steam or table turning. It consists in the diminution of the traces of original sin. Charles Baudelaire
civilization age stones
If civilization has risen from the Stone Age, it can rise again from the Wastepaper Age. Jacques Barzun
civilization majority answers
By and large, the answer to the question "How do large institutions survive?" is "They don't!" The vast majority of large modern-day institutions some of them extremely vital to the functioning of our complex civilization simply fail to exist in the first place. Eliezer Yudkowsky
civilization world legs
Civilization is the world with its leg asleep.
civilization would-be good-times
Maybe we're about to radically change the operating system of the human condition. If so, then this would be a really good time to make backups of our civilization. Bruce Sterling
civilization agreement causes
What I question is the extent to which any of us truly knows what the facts really are. I mistrust every ideal cherished in western democratic civilization. The words that make others smile and nod in agreement cause me to recoil. Boyd Rice
civilization two care
I don't care two hoots about civilization. I want to wander in the wild. Jane Goodall
civilization light evil
...evil is a force and, like the physical and chemical forces, we cannot annihilate it; we may only change its form. We light upon one evil and hit it with all the might of our civilization, but only succeed in scattering it into a dozen of other forms James Weldon Johnson
civilization order liberty
Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos. Will Durant
civilization embraces thrives
The Filipino embraces civilization and lives and thrives in every clime, in contact with every people. Jose Rizal
civilization women
The test of civilization is its estimate of women. George William Curtis
civilization savages fragility
They do not understand the fragility of civilization and the constant nearness of savage nature. Camille Paglia
civilization hands progress
Civilization and profit go hand in hand. Calvin Coolidge
civilization games asteroids
If the Earth gets hit by an asteroid, it's game over. It's control-alt-delete for civilization. Bill Nye
civilization views islam
To us it seems that West-European civilization is civilization, but this is a narrow view. Bertrand Russell
civilization interesting needs
The interesting thing is the field is so big - it's enormous. One thing a modern civilization needs is energy. Charlie Munger
civilization pioneers
A pioneer destroys things and calls it civilization. Charles Marion Russell