Quotes about civilization
civilization wildness
What we call wildness is a civilization other than our own. Henry David Thoreau
civilization giving glances
Give me a Wildness whose glance no civilization can endure.
civilization simplicity
Simplicity is the peak of civilization.
civilization government enemy
Any government that chooses to be an ally of terror has also chosen to be an enemy of civilization. George W. Bush
civilization commitment company effort group individual society team
Individual commitment to a group effort -- that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work. Vince Lombardi
civilization decisive human indeed producing range western
Indeed it is the protean ability of Western civilization to be self-critical and self-correcting - not only in producing wealth but over the whole range of human activities - that constitutes its most decisive superiority over any of its rivals. Paul Johnson
civilization paper depends
Our civilization depends largely on paper. Pliny the Elder
civilization television tables
The family dinner table is the cornerstone of civilization and those who 'graze' from refrigerators or in front of the television sets are doomed to remain in a state of savagery. Judith Martin
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 special use
Writers sometimes talk as though they were the only friends of civilization. This is their conceit. But they have special powers to serve -- or to corrupt -- civilization, and are obliged to use them. Storm Jameson
civilization environmental attention
Civilization’s shortening attention span is mismatched with the pace of environmental problems. Stewart Brand
civilization doe events
The only true hope for civilization-the conviction of the individual that his inner life can affect outward events and that, whether or not he does so he is responsible for them. Stephen Spender
civilization gdp ties
The center of Western culture is Greece, and we have never lost our ties with the architectural concepts of that ancient civilization. Stephen Gardiner
civilization revolution stories
The Industrial Revolution was another one of those extraordinary jumps forward in the story of civilization.
civilization skeletons stories
Even in this place one can survive, and therefore one must want to survive, to tell the story, to bear witness; and that to survive we must force ourselves to save at least the skeleton, the scaffolding, the form of civilization. We are slaves, deprived of every right, exposed to every insult, condemned to certain death, but we still possess one power, and we must defend it with all our strength for it is the last — the power to refuse our consent. Primo Levi
civilization diversity achievement
For the liberal state to accommodate a diversity of beliefs while having few positive convictions is one of the more admirable achievements of civilization. Terry Eagleton
civilization communicate seems
It seems to me far more likely that an advanced civilization would communicate inter dimensionally and telepathically. Terence McKenna
civilization names imagination
If we were to place our power at the service of our imaginations rather than our primate politics we would create a civilization worthy of the name.
civilization culture individual
So the conclusion that I reach, visa vie the individual and civilization, is this: Culture is not our friend. Culture is not your friend. It's not my friend. It's a very uncomfortable set of accommodations that have been hammered out over time for the convenience of institutions.
civilization historical boundaries
The main thing going on in the 20th century is a dissolving of boundaries, all the boundaries that historical civilization put in place.
civilization childhood passing-away
And what we're looking toward is a moment when the artificial language structures which bind us within the notion of ourselves are dissolved in the presence of the realization that we are a part of nature. And when that happens, the childhood of our species will pass away, and we will stand tremulously on the brink of really the first moment of coherent human civilization.
civilization people mind-blowing
What civilization is, is 6 billion people trying to make themselves happy by standing on each other's shoulders and kicking each other's teeth in. It's not a pleasant situation.
civilization fists founder instead language man
the first man to use abusive language instead of his fists 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 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 firsts pacific
Death has always been the first sign of European civilization when introduced in the Pacific. Jose Rizal
civilization lasts force
Civilization is nothing else but the attempt to reduce force to being the last resort. Jose Ortega y Gasset
civilization failing cynicism
The cynic, a parasite of civilization, lives by denying it, for the very reason that he is convinced that it will not fail.
civilization weight different
A German immersed in any civilization different from his own loses a weight equivalent in volume to the amount of intelligence he displaces. Jose Bergamin