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 needs libertarian
The bureaucracy is expanding to meet the needs of the expanding bureaucracy. Oscar Wilde
civilization class people
Agitators are a set of interfering, meddling people, who come down to some perfectly contented class of the community and sow the seeds of discontent amongst them. That is the reason why agitators are so absolutely necessary. Without them, in our incomplete state, there would be no advance towards civilization.
civilization sick
Civilization is what makes you sick. Paul Gauguin
civilization doe popularity
Just as liberalism is the main force that drives conservatism and maintains its popularity in some quarters, conservatism is the reason liberalism continues to enjoy the traction that it does in our poor civilization. L. Neil Smith
civilization improvement enormous
Civilization is an enormous improvement on the lack thereof. P. J. O'Rourke
civilization looks different
It is commonly said and known that each civilization has its own religion. Now my claim is that if we look deeper, the different civilizations were brought into being by the different revelations. Huston Smith
civilization bears ancestry
It has been estimated that one third of our Western civilization bears the mark of its Jewish ancestry.
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 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 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 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 sick people
What an extraordinary achievement for a civilization: to have developed the one diet that reliably makes its people sick! Michael Pollan
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 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 progress precedent
Women will ignore precedent and startle civilization with their progress. Nikola Tesla
civilization risk progress
Muscles without strength, friendship without trust, opinion without risk, change without aesthetics, age without values, food without nourishment, power without fairness, facts without rigor, degrees without erudition, militarism without fortitude, progress without civilization, complication without depth, fluency without content; these are the sins to remember. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
civilization literature persons
Civilization is the making of civil persons. John Ruskin
civilization body interest
English civilization the humanizing, the bringing into one harmonious and truly humane life, of the whole body of English society that is what interests me. Matthew Arnold
civilization noses decline
Osbert was the only one who didn't seem suspicious. He was so interested in the Decline of Western Civilization that he missed the version of it taking place under his nose. Meg Rosoff
civilization tradition
Science?is so greatly opposed to history and tradition that it cannot be absorbed by our civilization. Max Born
civilization overrated
Civilization is vastly overrated. Patricia Briggs
civilization people naked
She lives a sophisticate's life among worldly people. At the slightest excuse she steps out of civilization, naked and relieved, as I should step out of a soiled chemise. Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
civilization west hunger
Hunger eats civilization. The West is not hungry; that's why they can say they're so civilized. Civilization is the biggest bluff! Marjane Satrapi
civilization saving may
We may get to the point where the only way of saving the world will be for industrial civilization to collapse. Maurice Strong
civilization environmental cocoons
In our rich consumers' civilization we spin cocoons around ourselves and get possessed by our possessions.
civilization barbarism discontent
Civilization creates discontents; barbarism creates quick endings. Mason Cooley