Quotes about civilization
civilization competition records
Everything around a writer, or musician in the record business, probably everything in all the United States or in all of western civilization, is about competition. T Bone Burnett
civilization poetry decline
As civilization advances, poetry almost necessarily declines. Thomas B. Macaulay
civilization hermits alienation
A hermit is simply a person to whom civilization has failed to adjust itself. Will Cuppy
civilization missing needs
Continue to express your dissent and your needs, but remember to remain civilized, for you will sorely miss civilization if it is sacrified in the turbulence of change. Will Durant
civilization missing turbulence
For you will sorely miss civilization if it is sacrificed in the turbulence of change.
civilization stoic born
A civilization is born Stoic and dies Epicurean.
civilization dust earth
Civilizations come and go; they conquer the earth and crumble into dust; but faith survives every desolation.
civilization history generations
Civilization is not inherited; it has to be learned and earned by each generation anew; if the transmission should be interrupted for one century, civilization would die, and we should be savages again.
civilization stoicism individual
So I should say that civilizations begin with religion and stoicism: they end with scepticism and unbelief, and the undisciplined pursuit of individual pleasure. A civilization is born stoic and dies epicurean.
civilization history ruins
The South creates the civilizations, the North conquers them, ruins them, borrows from them, spreads them: this is one summary of history.
civilization apathy decay
[H]istory assures us that civilizations decay quite leisurely.
civilization needs barbarism
From barbarism to civilization requires a century; from civilization to barbarism needs but a day.
civilization luxury liberty
Liberty is a luxury of security; the free individual is a product and a mark of civilization.
civilization soul dies
The soul of a civilization is its religion, and it dies with its faith.
civilization people arguing
Civilizations evolve over time, and most scholars of civilization, including people like Carol Quigley, argue that they go through periods of warring states, and eventually evolve into a universal state. Samuel P. Huntington
civilization aggravation long
It will take a long time, and certainly the West will remain the dominant civilization well into the next century, but the decline is occurring.
civilization atheism done
... All questions concerning the rise of Christianity are one: How was it done? How did a tiny and obscure messianic movement from the edge of the Roman Empire dislodge classical paganism and become the dominant faith of Western civilization? Although this is the only question, it requires many answers - no one thing led to the triumph of Christianity. Rodney Stark
civilization sickness illness
civilization is a transient sickness. Robinson Jeffers
civilization giving justice
Women know the damnation of charity because the habit of civilization has always been to throw them cheap alms rather than give them good wages. Rebecca West
civilization enormous devices
Civilization is an enormous device for economizing knowledge,. Thomas Sowell
civilization light society
The demands of unbounded individualism need to be weighed in the light of inherent social constraints which can only change their form but cannot be eliminated without eliminating civilization.
civilization vision arbitrary
If the truth is boring, civilization is irksome. The constraints inherent in civilized living are frustrating in innumerable ways. Yet those with the vision of the anointed often see these constraints as only arbitrary impositions, things from which they-and we all-can be 'liberated.' The social disintegration which has followed in the wake of such liberation has seldom provoked any serious reconsideration of the whole set of assumptions-the vision-which led to such disasters. That vision is too well insulated from feedback.
civilization play santa
Someone once said that taxes are the price we pay for civilization. That may have been true when he said it, but today taxes are mostly the price we pay so that politicians can play Santa Claus and get reelected.
civilization people pay
Some people say that taxes are the price we pay for civilization. But the runaway taxes of our time are the price we pay for being gullible.
civilization generations too-late
Each new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little barbarians, who must be civilized before it is too late.
civilization people empathy
The purpose of civilization and growth is to be able to reach out and empathize with other people... For me, the movies are like a machine that generates empathy. Roger Ebert
civilization issues important
A civilization in which there is not a continuous controversy about important issues is on the way to totalitarianism and death Robert M. Hutchins
civilization saint crumbs
Civilization must be destroyed. The hairy saints of the North have earned this crumb by their complaints. Wallace Stevens
civilization giving support
Is one of the fairest portions of the globe to remain in a state of nature, the haunt of a few wretched savages, when it seems destined by the Creator to give support to a large population and to be the seat of civilization? William Henry Harrison
civilization healthy foundation
No healthy civilization can ever be reared on a foundation of devitalized work. William Ralph Inge
civilization boredom revolution
The effect of boredom on a large scale in history is underestimated. It is a main cause of revolutions, and would soon bring to an end all the static Utopias and the farmyard civilization of the Fabians.
civilization disease
Civilization is a disease which is almost invariably fatal.
civilization waste products
Civilization is being poisoned by its own waste products.