Quotes about civilization
civilization race history
... the history of the race, from infancy through its stages of barbarism, heathenism, civilization, and Christianity, is a process of suffering, as the lower principles of humanity are gradually subjected to the higher. Catharine Beecher
civilization imagination parent
From stoplights to skyscrapers, turn anywhere in civilization and you will see imagination at work. It's in our inventions, advances and remedies and how a single parent masterminds each day. Imagination is boundless, surrounds us and resides in us all. Geoffrey S. Fletcher
civilization two support
Freemasonry is an institution founded on eternal reason and truth; whose deep basis is the civilization of mankind, and whose everlasting glory it is to have the immovable support of those two mighty pillars, science and morality. George Washington
civilization names interesting
The Babylonian and Assyrian civilizations have perished; Hammurabi, Sargon and Nebuchadnezzar are empty names; yet Babylonian mathematics is still interesting, and the Babylonian scale of 60 is still used in Astronomy. G. H. Hardy
civilization way degrees
The degree of a nation’s civilization can be seen in the way it treats its prisoners Fyodor Dostoevsky
civilization disease modern
The disease of mutual distrust among nations is the bane of modern civilization Franz Boas
civilization white guilt
Collective guilt is borne by what is conventionally called the scapegoat. Now the scapegoat for white society - which is based on myths of progress, civilization, liberalism, education, enlightenment, refinement - will be precisely the force that opposes the expansion and the triumph of these myths. This brutal opposing force is supplied by the Negro. Frantz Fanon
civilization gdp gum
It's just a show. It's not the end of Western Civilization. It's chewing gum. Jerry Springer
civilization skills use
The world we know at present is in no fit state to take over the dreariest little meteor ... If we have the courage and patience, the energy and skill, to take us voyaging to other planets, then let us use some of these to tidy up and civilize this earth. One world at a time, please. J. B. Priestley
civilization farce bears
Comedy speaks for civilization; farce bears an ill-concealed, sometimes unconcealed animus against civilization. Often against civility too. Irving Howe
civilization europe unity
The papacy again, representing the traditional unity of European civilization, has also shown itself unable to limit effectively the push of nationalism. Irving Babbitt
civilization environmental headed human whether
Human civilization as we know it is like the Titanic headed for the iceberg, whether the iceberg be nuclear, environmental or terrorism-related. Marianne Williamson
civilization enforced few nearly
For nearly as long as civilization has existed, patriarchy - enforced through the rights of the firstborn son - has been the organizing principle, with few exceptions. Hanna Rosin
civilization poverty danger
Security, the chief pretense of civilization, cannot exist where the worst of dangers, the danger of poverty, hangs over everyone's head. George Bernard Shaw
civilization judging neighbor
There have been summits of civilization at which heretics like Socrates , who was killed because he was wiser than his neighbors, have not been tortured, but ordered to kill themselves in the most painless manner known to their judges. But from that summit there was a speedy relapse into our present savagery.
civilization way kind
We veneer civilization by doing unkind things in a kind way.
civilization united-states idiot
I myself have been particularly careful never to say a civil word to the United States. I have scoffed at their inhabitants as a nation of villagers. I have defined the 100 % American as 99 % an idiot. And they adore me.
civilization bourgeoisie noblemen
Civilized society is one huge bourgeoisie: no nobleman dares now shock his greengrocer.
civilization community phases
No community has ever yet passed beyond the initial phases in which its pugnacity and fanaticism enabled it to found a nation, and its cupidity to establish and develop a commercial civilization.
civilization people perception
What we are confronted with now is a growing perception that if we desire a certain type of civilization and culture we must exterminate the sort of people who do not fit into it,
civilization modern steam
Those who admire modern civilization usually identify it with the steam engine and the electric telegraph.
civilization differences problem
The problem with the press is that they can't tell the difference between a bicycle crash and the end of civilization.
civilization people hatred
Karl Marx was the foremost hater and most incessant whiner in the history of Western Civilization. He was a spoiled, overeducated brat who never grew up; he just grew more shrill as he grew older. His lifelong hatred and whining have led to the deaths (so far) of perhaps a hundred million people, depending on how many people perished under Mao's tyranny. We will probably never know. Gary North
civilization way becoming
We are not on the way to greater individualism, but are becoming an increasingly manipulated mass civilization. Erich Fromm
civilization doubt may
Human history began as an act of disobedience, and it is not unlikely that it will be terminated by an act of obedience. At this point in history the capacity to doubt, to criticize and to disobey may be all that stands between a future for mankind and the end of civilization.
civilization people islam
Is Islam a religion of peace? I'm sure for some of the practitioners, but it's been hijacked by people who have an ideology that wants to destroy western civilization, and they're barbarians. Jeb Bush
civilization tests dark-ages
The test of civilization is the estimate of woman. George William Curtis
civilization foundation
The foundation of all civilization is loitering. Jean Renoir
civilization greek age
First there was Greek civilization. Then there was the Renaissance. Now we’re entering the Age of the Ass. Jean-Luc Godard
civilization nonsense danger
The danger of civilization, of course, is that you will piss away your life on nonsense. Jim Harrison
civilization dumb aliens
I'd like - inviting aliens and have them observe what we do because so much of what we do that we take for granted will just be weird or extraordinary or just plain dumb when observed by an alien from another civilization. Neil deGrasse Tyson
civilization space light
FM signals and those of broadcast television...travel out to space at the speed of light. Any eavesdropping alien civilization will know all about our TV programs (probably a bad thing), will hear all our FM music (probably a good thing), and know nothing of the politics of AM talk-show hosts (probably a safe thing).
civilization library red
Libraries are the thin red line between civilization and barbarism. Neil Gaiman