Quotes about civilization
civilization rewards restaurants
A tablecloth restaurant is still one of the great rewards of civilization. Harry Golden
civilization two support
Freemasonry is an institution founded on eternal reason and truth; whose deep basis is the civilization of mankind, and whose everlasting glory it is to have the immovable support of those two mighty pillars, science and morality. George Washington
civilization names interesting
The Babylonian and Assyrian civilizations have perished; Hammurabi, Sargon and Nebuchadnezzar are empty names; yet Babylonian mathematics is still interesting, and the Babylonian scale of 60 is still used in Astronomy. G. H. Hardy
civilization way degrees
The degree of a nation’s civilization can be seen in the way it treats its prisoners Fyodor Dostoevsky
civilization age useless
Why is old considered useless? Because in old age, the emphasis shifts from doing to Being, and our civilization, which is lost in doing, knows nothing of Being. It asks: Being? What do you do with it? Eckhart Tolle
civilization america diversity
I look forward to an america in which commands respect throughout the world, not only for its strength, but for its civilization as well. And I look forward to a world in which we will be safe not only for democracy and diversity but also for personal distinction. John F. Kennedy
civilization politician poet
In the very end, civilizations perish because they listen to their politicians and not to their poets. Jonas Mekas
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 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 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 world destruction
Money no longer has any meaning. Civilization is coming to an end. If not the destruction of the world, it's an endless stalemate. Stephen Fry
civilization people presidential
One of the tests of the civilization of people is the treatment of its criminals. Rutherford B. Hayes
civilization historical groups
Western civilization, because of fortuitous historical circumstances, has spread itself more widely than any other local group that has so far been known. Ruth Benedict
civilization society culture
Society in its full sense ... is never an entity separable from the individuals who compose it. No individual can arrive even at the threshold of his potentialities without a culture in which he participates. Conversely, no civilization has in it any element which in the last analysis is not the contribution of an individual.
civilization speech
Speech is civilization itself. Thomas Mann
civilization degrees generations
Never before has a civilization reached such a degree of a contempt for life; never before has a generation, drowned in mortification, felt such a rage to live. Raoul Vaneigem
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 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.