Quotes about civilization
civilization spontaneity individual
In basic terms, civilization is dependent upon the spontaneity and fulfillment of the individual. Your civilization is in sad straits. Not because you are allowed spontaneity or fulfillment to individuals, but because you are denied it, and because your institutions are based upon that premise. Seth
civilization ideas marketing
Marketing is about spreading ideas, and spreading ideas is the single most important output of our civilization.
civilization eggs growth
By putting business before every other manifestation of life, our mechanical and financial civilization has forgotten the chief business of life: namely, growth, reproduction, development. It pays infinite attention to the incubator-and it forgets the egg! Lewis Mumford
civilization marry-me difficult
It's very difficult to marry into another civilization. Leslie Caron
civilization paris personality
I know a lot of Americans in Paris who have married Frenchmen. They keep bringing up their experience, the clash of civilizations, the clash of personalities.
civilization two rabbits
If you chase two rabbits, you will lose them both. Leonard Nimoy
civilization people needs
I am a great believer in what we've been told time and time again by people like Joseph Campbell, "find your bliss." Find out what it is that touches you most deeply. Pursue it, learn about it, explore it, expand on it. Live with it and nurture it. Find your own way and make your own contribution. Find a way to make a contribution to this society because God knows we need contributions from the coming generation. This planet and this civilization is in need. I see it as a time of need.
civilization atmosphere kali
In Kali yuga, whole atmosphere is surcharged with faithlessness, Material sense gratification is standard of civilization. Radhanath Swami
civilization long belief
As long as our civilization is essentially one of property, of fences, of exclusiveness, it will be mocked by delusions. Ralph Waldo Emerson
civilization fire discovery
Civilization did not come with fire. It came with the discovery of how to use fire to heat water. Laura Anne Gilman
civilization trying study
I am studying ancient civilizations, trying to find what happened to them, finding out why they went into a decline, why they died. L. Ron Hubbard
civilization brutality emphasis
The African tribesman, with his complete contempt for truth and his emphasis on brutality and savagery for others but not for himself, is a no-civilization.
civilization silence age
Society turns away from the aged worker as though he belonged to another species. That is why the whole question is buried in a conspiracy of silence. Old age exposes the failure of our entire civilization. Simone de Beauvoir
civilization bureaucracy specialization
The whole of our civilization is founded on specialization, which implies the enslavement of those who execute to those who coordinate ... Simone Weil
civilization organization benefits
Having come into contact with a civilization which has over-emphasized the freedom of the individual, we are in fact faced with one of the big problems of Africa in the modern world. Our problem is just this: how to get the benefits of European society - benefits that have been brought about by an organization based upon the individual - and yet retain African's own structure of society in which the individual is a member of a kind of fellowship. Julius Nyerere
civilization soldier lasts
Fortunately, at the last hour, there were always a few soldiers to save Civilization. Oswald Spengler
civilization long together
We could tell them [alien civilization] things that we have discovered in the realm of mathematical physics, but there is stuff that I would like to know. There are some famous problems like how to bring gravitation and quantum physics together, the long-sought-after theory of quantum gravity. But it may be hard to understand the answer that comes back. Paul Davies
civilization arrogance may
I would like to see us get this place right first before we have the arrogance to put significantly flawed civilizations out onto other planets, even though they may be utterly uninhabited. Patrick Stewart
civilization space diversity
Now, more than ever, we need people in space... The events of September 11 show us how vulnerable we and our civilization are down here on Earth... So let us use our strength, our awareness of mortality as a civilization, to do something truly lasting and earth-shaking for humanity. Let us join with the peoples and cultures of this planet, the diversities of its perspectives and religions and science, so we can leave it-not behind, but as a springboard to something better. Paul Levinson
civilization interesting lucky
I feel that I'm in a very interesting position, where I'm standing back to look at this change, at this moment in history of human beings. If the end of the civilization comes before the end of my life, that's lucky! I want to witness how this big story of humans ends. Hiroshi Sugimoto
civilization leaving departed
Here the Frenchman, Spaniard, and Englishman all passed, leaving each his legend; and a brilliant and more or less feudal civilization with its aristocracy and slaves has departed with the economic system upon which it rested.
civilization black flags
When Black Flag and DOA and all those bands were touring in the early 80s, it was kind of a forest and you just kind of got your way through it. Now it's like a six lane highway with Starbucks every twenty meters. That's just civilization. Henry Rollins
civilization justice world
Justice has nothing to do with victor nations and vanquished nations, but must be a moral standard that all the world's peoples can agree to. To seek this and to achieve it - that is true civilization Hideki Tojo
civilization leisure
There can be no high civilization where there is not ample leisure. Henry Ward Beecher
civilization america elements
In America there is not one single element of civilization that is not made to depend, in the end, upon public opinion.
civilization white skins
[To the South African parliament:] I do not know why we equate - and with the examples before us - a white skin with civilization. Helen Suzman
civilization important-events history
The study of history, it seems to me, leads to the conviction that all important events tend toward the same end - the civilization of mankind. Madame de Stael
civilization bread pieces
Of what value is a civilization that can't toast a piece of bread as ordered? Haruki Murakami
civilization people fence
Rousseau defined civilizations as when people build fences.
civilization obvious-things decay
Every high civilization decays by forgetting obvious things. Gilbert K. Chesterton
civilization tree alive
A good civilisation spreads over us freely like a tree, varying and yielding because it is alive. A bad civilisation stands up and sticks out above us like an umbrella-artificial, mathematical in shape; not merely universal, but uniform.
civilization people islam
When people talk as if the Crusades were nothing more than an aggressive raid against Islam, they seem to forget in the strangest way that Islam itself was only an aggressive raid against the old and ordered civilization in these parts. I do not say it in mere hostility to the religion of Mahomet; I am fully conscious of many values and virtues in it; but certainly it was Islam that was the invasion and Christendom that was the thing invaded.
civilization tests profit
Once we allow ourselves to be disobedient to the test of an accountant's profit, we have begun to change our civilization. John Maynard Keynes