Quotes about civilization
civilization defeat force
Yet, history has shown that if material force can defeat some ideologies it can no longer obliterate a civilization without destabilizing the whole planet. Abdelaziz Bouteflika
civilization individual dialogue
A dialogue among civilizations can be seen as a dialogue between the individual and the universal.
civilization coming explain fight flags fly house lawn south threat today together white
More than 170 flags will fly on the south lawn of the White House today as a way to visually and symbolically explain that the world is coming together to fight this threat to civilization and to freedom. Karen Hughes
civilization civilized drawn fully office people purse stealing
No people is fully civilized where a distinction is drawn between stealing an office and stealing a purse Theodore Roosevelt
civilization devoured glance lived marrow raw whose wildness
Give me a wildness whose glance no civilization can endure,-as if we lived on the marrow of koodoos devoured raw Henry David Thoreau
civilization training ifs
If education is beaten by training, civilization dies. C. S. Lewis
civilization effort progress
Whenever Nature's bounty is in danger of exhaustion, the chemist has sought for a substitute. The conquest of disease has made great progress as a result of your efforts. Wherever we look, the work of the chemist has raised the level of our civilization and has increased the productive capacity of the nation. Waste materials, formerly cast aside, are now being utilized. Calvin Coolidge
civilization levels looks
Wherever we look, the work of the chemist has raised the level of our civilization and has increased the productive capacity of the nation.
civilization firsts complicated
A civilization is complicated, in the first place, because it is dynamic; that is, it is constantly changing in the passage of time, until it has perished. Carroll Quigley
civilization long historical
It is clear that every civilization undergoes a process of historical change. We can see that a civilization comes into existence, passes through a long experience, and eventually goes out of existence.
civilization perspective historical
Western civilization presents one of the most difficult tasks for historical analysis, because it is not yet finished, because we are a part of it and lack perspective, and because it presents considerable variation from our pattern of historical change.
civilization organization slavery
The instrument of expansion of Classical civilization was a social organization, slavery.
civilization significant abstract
The process by which civilization, as an abstract entity distinct from the societies in which it is embodied, dies or is reborn is a very significant one.
civilization two america
For the first time in its history, Western Civilization is in danger of being destroyed internally by a corrupt, criminal ruling cabal which is centered around the Rockefeller interests, which include elements from the Morgan, Brown, Rothschild, Du Pont, Harriman, Kuhn-Loeb, and other groupings as well. This junta took control of the political, financial, and cultural life of America in the first two decades of the twentieth century.
civilization atmosphere global-warming
Unless we stop dumping 70 million tons of global warming pollution into the atmosphere every 24 hours, which we are doing right now ... the continued acceleration of this pollution would destroy the future of human civilization. Al Gore
civilization america risk
The survival of the United States of America as we know it is at risk. And even more — if more should be required — the future of human civilization is at stake.
civilization prosperous-future healthy
The consensus is clear. We need an immediate and determined shift to a clean, renewable economy. The continued mass burning of fossil fuels is inconsistent with a healthy, prosperous future for our civilization.
civilization earth energy
Our insatiable drive to rummage deep beneath the surface of the earth is a willful expansion of our dysfunctional civilization into Nature.
civilization psychology branches
Technological civilization... rests fundamentally on power-driven machinery which transcends the physical limits of its human directors, multiplying indefinitely the capacity for the production of goods. Science in all its branches - physics, chemistry, biology, and psychology - is the servant and upholder of this system Charles A. Beard
civilization littles yeti
There is precious little in civilization to appeal to a yeti. Edmund Hillary
civilization majority answers
By and large, the answer to the question "How do large institutions survive?" is "They don't!" The vast majority of large modern-day institutions some of them extremely vital to the functioning of our complex civilization simply fail to exist in the first place. Eliezer Yudkowsky
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I think it quite likely that we are the only civilization within several hundred light years; otherwise we would have heard radio waves. Stephen Hawking
civilization food junk
You can't have a healthy civilization without healthy soil. You can't have junk food and have healthy people. Joel Salatin
civilization normal spread wheel written
I would say colonialism is a wonderful thing. It spread civilization to Africa. Before it they had no written language, no wheel as we know it, no schools, no hospitals, not even normal clothing.
civilization fill leisure
To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization. Arnold J. Toynbee
civilization world deeds
A trial cannot be conducted by announcing the general culpability of a civilization. Only the actual deeds which, at least, stank in the nostrils of the entire world were brought to judgment. Albert Camus
civilization fruit bases
Labor is the fruit of civilization, not the basis of it. Alexander Crummell
civilization might naive
American civilization, from its beginnings, had combined a dogmatic confidence in the future with a naive puzzlement over what the future might bring. Daniel J. Boorstin
civilization knowing long
So as long as you can forget your body you are happy and the moment you begin to be aware of your body, you are wretched. So if civilization is any good, it has to help us forget our bodies, and then time passes happily without our knowing it. Help us get rid of our bodies altogether. D. H. Lawrence
civilization oneness age
The spirit of the place is a strange thing. Our mechanical age tries to override it. But it does not succeed. In the end the strange, sinister spirit of the place, so diverse and adverse in differing places, will smash our mechanical oneness into smithereens.
civilization giving spending
Their whole life depends on spending money, and now they’ve got none to spend. That’s our civilization and our education: bring up the masses to depend entirely on spending money, and then the money gives out.
civilization vices connections
No more astounding relic of the subjection of women survives in western civilization than the status of the prostitute.... In connection with what other illegal vice is the seller alone penalized, and not the buyer? Crystal Eastman
civilization trials scope
Scopes isn’t on trial; civilization is on trial. Clarence Darrow