Quotes about 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. Mahatma Gandhi
civilization facts theory
Civilizations have been founded and maintained on theories which refused to obey facts. Joe Orton
civilization people progress
The measure of progress of civilization is the progress of the people. George Bancroft
civilization government mind
The exact measure of the progress of civilization is the degree in which the intelligence of the common mind has prevailed over wealth and brute force.
civilization evolution human million race tame ten thousand wild
The evolution of the human race will not be accomplished in the ten thousand years of tame animals, but in the million years of wild animals, because man is and will always be a wild animal. Charles Darwin
civilization long form
Civilization in its present form hasn't got long. James Lovelock
civilization bullshit foundation
Our entire civilization is built on a foundation of unfixable bullshit. Joe Rogan
civilization government police
With any new civilization... they have to have their own officers and police and governments and all that. Jimi Hendrix
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 fists founder instead language man
the first man to use abusive language instead of his fists was the founder of civilization.
civilization fists founder instead language man
...the first man to use abusive language instead of his fists was the founder of civilization.
civilization close common land leads liberal lived living northern orthodoxy people quite ruined
The common liberal orthodoxy that living close to the land leads to eco-awareness is historically naive, considering that Mesopotamia, northern Africa, and the Mayan civilization were ruined by people who had lived there quite a long while. Gregory Benford
civilization firsts trash
...the first sign of civilization is always trash. Neal Shusterman
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 sick people
What an extraordinary achievement for a civilization: to have developed the one diet that reliably makes its people sick! Michael Pollan
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
civilization two four
It has been said that civilization is twenty-four hours and two meals away from barbarism.
civilization dying islam
A big chunk of Western civilization, consciously or otherwise, has given the impression that it's dying to surrender to somebody, anybody. Reasonably enough, Islam figures: Hey, why not us? Mark Steyn
civilization goal feminist
My goal in life is to change the entire social and economic structure of western civilization, to make it a feminist world. Marilyn French
civilization firsts niche
Far from being the smartest possible biological species, we are probably better thought of as the stupidest possible biological species capable of starting a technological civilization - a niche we filled because we got there first, not because we are in any sense optimally adapted to it. Nick Bostrom
civilization lust degrees
The love of domination and an uncontrolled lust of arbitrary power have prevailed among all nations and perhaps in proportion to the degrees of civilization. Mercy Otis Warren
civilization liberty proud
Our flag is a proud flag, and it stands for liberty and civilization. Where it has once floated, there must be no return to tyranny. Theodore Roosevelt
civilization intuition beast
Our civilization is still in a middle stage, scarcely beast, in that it is no longer wholly guided by instinct; scarcely human, in that it is not yet wholly guided by reason. Theodore Dreiser
civilization numbers eugenics
Organized charity itself is. . . the surest sign that our civilization has bred, is breeding and is perpetuating constantly increasing numbers of defectives, delinquents and dependents Margaret Sanger
civilization class two
As an advocate of birth control I wish to point out that the unbalance between the birth rate of the 'unfit' and the 'fit,' admittedly the greatest present menace to civilization, can never be rectified by the inauguration of a cradle competition between these two classes. In this matter, the example of the inferior classes, the fertility of the feeble-minded, the mentally defective, the poverty-stricken classes, should not be held up for emulation. On the contrary, the most urgent problem today is how to limit and discourage the over-fertility of the mentally and physically defective.
civilization people wreckage
What most people don't seem to realize is that there is just as much money to be made out of the wreckage of a civilization as from the upbuilding of one. Margaret Mitchell
civilization people brain
In the end what will happen will be what has happened whenever a civilization breaks up. The people who have brains and courage come through and the ones who haven't are winnowed out.
civilization ideas woven
Because our civilization is woven of so many diverse strands, the ideas which any one group accepts will be found to contain numerous contradictions. Margaret Mead
civilization answers vex
I have tried to answer the question which sent me to Samoa: Are the disturbances which vex our adolescents due to the nature of adolescence itself or to the civilization? Under different conditions does adolescence present a different picture?
civilization race humanity
I pray God that we shall never use our physical prowess to oppress the human race, but we will use our strength, physically, morally and otherwise to preserve humanity and civilization. Marcus Garvey
civilization poison drink
If the Negro is not careful he will drink in all the poison of modern civilization and die from the effects of it.