Quotes about civilization
civilization pioneers railroads
The true pioneer of civilization is not the newspaper, not religion, not the railroad - but whiskey! Mark Twain
civilization progress stability
Chastity is the cement of civilization and progress. Without it there is no stability in society, and without it one cannot attain the Science of Life. Mary Baker Eddy
civilization together heroic
If we cannot come together to pause, to respect our dead and the heroic lives of meaning they led, then ours is truly a civilization lost. Mark McKinnon
civilization california doe
California is now close to spending more on prisons than it does on higher education - surely the death warrant of a civilization. Molly Ivins
civilization agriculture government
The greatest advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science and literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government. Milton Friedman
civilization body breastfeeding
How idiotic civilization is! Why be given a body if you have to keep it shut up in a case like a rare, rare fiddle? Katherine Mansfield
civilization broken eggshells
The broken eggshell of a civilization which time has hatched and devoured. Julia Ward Howe
civilization tools internet
The internet, our greatest tool of emancipation, has been transformed into the most dangerous facilitator of totalitarianism we have ever seen. The internet is a threat to human civilization. Julian Assange
civilization local sign single
There was not a single trail, no sign of civilization, no sign of even local communities ever having been there.
civilization civilized era fathers forced founding mankind order passed reference references standard start time
There was no standard reference when the new era of a civilized mankind began. The founding fathers had been forced to start a new world order and as time passed by, many references appear.
civilization cultural diversity fact indian loved
I loved that breadth, and also the fact that in interpreting Indian civilization itself, its cultural diversity was much emphasized. Amartya Sen
civilization evolution handed healer helper hundred intelligence passed planet rescued stood thousand
Evolution made civilization steward of this planet. A hundred thousand years later, the steward stood before evolution not helper but destroyer, not healer but parasite. So evolution withdrew its gift, passed civilization by, rescued the planet from intelligence and handed it to love. Richard Bach
civilization founder human instead insult stone
The first human being who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization. Sigmund Freud
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 america missing
Some of the beliefs and legends bequethed to us by Antquity are so universally and firmly established that we have become accustomed to consider them as being almost as ancient as humanity itself. Nevertheless we are tempted to inquire how far the fact that some of these beliefs and legends have so many features in common is due to chance, and wether the similarity between them may not point to the exestience of an ancient, totally unknown and unsuspected civilization of which all other traces have disappeared. This site is terrible! from, Allyson Stanley former miss America! Frederick Soddy
civilization may temples
The money-changers have fled from their high seats in the temple of our civilization. We may now restore that temple to the ancient truths. Franklin D. Roosevelt
civilization favors politics
Do not confuse objectives with methods. When the nation becomes substantially united in favor of planning the broad objectives of civilization, then true leadership must unite thought behind definite methods.
civilization justice hatred
We must remember that any oppression, any injustice, any hatred, is a wedge designed to attack our civilization.
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George Bush doesn't represent any civilization! George Galloway
civilization progress clarity
Our civilization is characterized by the word "progress." Progress is its form rather than making progress being one of its features. Typically it constructs. It is occupied with building an ever more complicated structure. And even clarity is sought only. Ludwig Wittgenstein
civilization rights inseparable
If we would have civilization and the exertion indispensable to its success, we must have property; if we have property, we must have its rights; if we have the rights of property, we must take those consequences of the rights of property which are inseparable from the rights themselves. James F. Cooper
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
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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.