Quotes about civilization
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
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.
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 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 country man nor size test true turns
The true test of civilization is, not the census, nor the size of the cities, nor the crops, but the kind of man that the country turns out. Ralph Waldo Emerson
civilization race news
A savage is simply a human organism that has not received enough news from the human race. John Ciardi
civilization alcohol inseparable
Fermentation and civilization are inseparable.
civilization modern-life quiet
Civilization is a conspiracy. Modern life is the silent compact of comfortable folk to keep up pretences. John Buchan
civilization might ruins
For these are not as they might seem to be, the ruins of our civilization, but are temporary encampment and outposts of the civilization that we - you and I - shall build. John Cheever
civilization stimulus new-knowledge
Our civilization has evolved through the continuous adjustment of society to the stimulus of new knowledge. John Boyd Orr
civilization unity age
Our civilization is now in the transition stage between the age of warring empires and a new age of world unity and peace.
civilization political prejudice
That is why I come forward tonight without any political label, without any bias, but just simply as an Englishman to say to you: a crime is being committed against civilization. John Amery
civilization fought people running saw wars
You can tell the state of civilization by the way people dress. If the people who fought two World Wars came back to 2010 and saw all of us running around in tracksuits, what would they think? It is just about being sloppy. Daphne Guinness
civilization war
You can't say that civilization don't advance; for in every war they kill you a new way. Will Rogers
civilization people barbarians
Where civilization entailed the corruption of barbarian virtues and the creation of dependent people, I decided, I was opposed to civilization. J. M. Coetzee
civilization people promise
Let us get together with other people of our sort and make over the world into a great world-civilization that will enable us to realize the promises and avoid the dangers of this new time. H. G. Wells
civilization two risk
We may anticipate a state of affairs in which two Great Powers will each be in a position to put an end to the civilization and life of the other, though not without risking its own. We may be likened to two scorpions in a bottle, each capable of killing the other, but only at the risk of his own life. J. Robert Oppenheimer
civilization imagination important
Collecting facts is important. Knowledge is important. But if you don't have an imagination to use the knowledge, civilization is nowhere. Ray Bradbury
civilization pieces
Our civilization is flinging itself to pieces. Stand back from the centrifuge.
civilization library
Without the library, you have no civilization.
civilization class creative
Through the wholesale destruction of the representatives of a class that from the beginning of history had been the directing and creative force in civilization, a process began which was almost mechanical. Ralph Adams Cram
civilization christianity hoping-for-the-best
When it turned on the Jew, Christianity and European civilization turned on the incarnation - albeit an incarnation often wayward and unaware - of its own best hopes. George Steiner
civilization clothes gestures
Almost as swiftly as he had imagined it, she had torn her clothes off, and when she flung them aside it was with that same magnificent gesture by which a whole civilization seemed to be annihilated. George Orwell
civilization taming chores
The taming and domestication of religion is one of the unceasing chores of civilization. Christopher Hitchens
civilization political levels
This freedom of political discussion on the highest level is something which Western civilization has in common with that of classical antiquity, but with no other Christopher Dawson
civilization age different
Every great movement in the history of Western civilization from the Carolingian age to the nineteenth century has been an international movement which owed its existence and its development to the cooperation of many different peoples.
civilization progress dies
The more rapidly a civilization progresses, the sooner it dies for another to rise in its place. Havelock Ellis
civilization fragile
There is nothing more fragile than civilization.