Quotes about civilization
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 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 good-woman answers
What is civilization? I answer, the power of good women.
civilization morality depends
Civilization depends on morality.
civilization rights fruit
Human rights is the fruit of various civilizations. Shirin Ebadi
civilization rights standards
Human rights is a universal standard. It is a component of every religion and every civilization.
civilization mirrors invention
You know when civilization began? With the invention of the mirror. Shimon Peres
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 history tests
A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization. Samuel Johnson
civilization decline fragmentation
Fragmentation occurs when a civilization is in decline. Robert Payne
civilization mind example
It is the habitual carriage of the umbrella that is the stamp of Respectability. Robinson Crusoe was rather a moralist than a pietist, and his leaf-umbrella is as fine an example of the civilised mind striving to express itself under adverse circumstances as we have ever met with. Robert Louis Stevenson
civilization modern umbrella
It is not for nothing, either, that the umbrella has become the very foremost badge of modern civilization--the Urim and Thummim of respectability. . . . So strongly do we feel on this point, indeed, that we are almost inclined to consider all who possess really well-conditioned umbrellas as worthy of the Franchise.
civilization evil natural
Civilization is a natural and inevitable consequence - whether good or evil I am not prepared to state. Robert E. Howard
civilization mazes customs
Civilization is a network and a maze of precedences and custom.
civilization skins red
Break the skin of civilization and you find the ape, roaring and red-handed.
civilization triumph natural
Barbarianism is the natural state of mankind. Civilization is unnatural. It is the whim of circumstance. And barbarianism must ultimately triumph
civilization people religion
Organized religion has too often followed the road of other people's institutions. It has made adjustments, compromises, and surrenders to a materialistic civilization for the benefit of material security in spite of occasional twinges of conscience and moral protests. The result has been that today much of organized religion is materialistically solvent but spiritually bankrupt. Saul Alinsky
civilization too-much gentility
There is such a thing as too much couth. S. J. Perelman