Quotes about civilization
civilization two omission
In many of the more relaxed civilizations on the Outer Eastern Rim of the Galaxy, the Hitch-Hiker's Guide has already supplanted the great Encyclopaedia Galactica as the standard repository of all knowledge and wisdom, for though it has many omissions and contains much that is apocryphal, or at least wildly inaccurate, it scores over the older, more pedestrian work in two important respects. First, it is slightly cheaper; and secondly it has the words DON'T PANIC inscribed in large friendly letters on its cover. Douglas Adams
civilization space needs
Yes. They are the words that finally turned me into the hermit I have now become. It was quite sudden. I saw them, and I knew what I had to do." The sign read: "Hold stick near center of its length. Moisten pointed end in mouth. Insert in tooth space, blunt end next to gum. Use gentle in-out motion." "It seemed to me," said Wonko the Sane, "that any civilization that had so far lost its head as to need to include a set of detailed instructions for use in a package of toothpicks, was no longer a civilization in which I could live and stay sane.
civilization lunch survival
The History of every major Galactic Civilization tends to pass through three distinct and recognizable phases, those of Survival, Inquiry and Sophistication, otherwise known as the How, Why, and Where phases. For instance, the first phase is characterized by the question 'How can we eat?' the second by the question 'Why do we eat?' and the third by the question 'Where shall we have lunch?
civilization needs use
It seemed to me,' said Wonko the Sane, 'that any civilization that had so far lost its head as to need to include a set of detailed instructions for use in a package of toothpicks, was no longer a civilization in which I could live and stay sane.
civilization comeback insult
Ultimately, there is no compromise. Westerners will either retain their civilization, including the right to insult and blaspheme, or not. Daniel Pipes
civilization errors trials
Yes,I'm afraid you're right. Trial and error isn't a bad way to learn how to build an aircraft,but it can be a disastrous way to learn how to build a civilization. Daniel Quinn
civilization looks unions
If you look at great human civilizations, from the Roman Empire to the Soviet Union, you will see that most do not fail simply due to external threats but because of internal weakness, corruption, or a failure to manifest the values and ideals they espouse. Cory Booker
civilization class two
Lemon Tree is well worth seeing as a first-class artistic achievement bridging two civilizations. Andrew Sarris
civilization justice prejudice
Prejudices are the props of civilization. Andre Gide
civilization challenges criticism
By challenging anthropocentricism and temporal provincialism, science fiction throws open the whole of civilization and its premises to constructive criticism. Alvin Toffler
civilization creative humanity
Humanity faces a quantum leap forward. It faces the deepest social upheaval and creative restructuring of all time. Without clearly recognizing it, we are engaged in building a remarkable new civilization from the ground up. This is the meaning of the Third Wave.
civilization skills together-again
One of the most highly developed skills in contemporary Western civilization is dissection: the split -up of problems into their smallest possible components. We are good at it. So good, we often forget to put the pieces back together again.
civilization assumption importance
Reject the basic assumptions of civilization, especially the importance of material possessions. Chuck Palahniuk
civilization oil america
Cars are the most central thing in America, in a lot of ways. They've probably influenced the way we live more than anything else, and yet every really big problem - whether it's the environment or who dictates the international economy because of oil - is all tied to cars. Ultimately, cars are bad for civilization. I don't know if they'll end us. Chuck Klosterman
civilization rewards world
The worlds civilization started from the day on which everyone received reward for labour. Andrew Carnegie
civilization saving dollars
Upon the sacredness of property civilization itself depends-the right of the laborer to his hundred dollars in the savings bank, and equally the legal right of the millionaire to his millions.
civilization degrade
Civilization degrades the many to exalt the few. Amos Bronson Alcott
civilization culture architecture
Architecture belongs to culture, not to civilization. Alvar Aalto
civilization people target
The world generally speaking is now drifting on a more and more devastating course towards the absurd target of extermination - or rather, to be more exact - of the northern hemisphere's towns, fields, and the people who have developed our civilization. Alva Myrdal
civilization age process
The age in which we live can only be characterized as one of barbarism. Our civilization is in the process not only of being militarized, but also being brutalized.
civilization age church
Surely that little pseudo-gothic church on Broadway, hidden amongst the skyscrapers, is symbolic of the age! On the whole face of the globe the civilization that has conquered it has failed to build a temple or a tomb. Andre Malraux
civilization two culture
Learning is nothing without cultivated manners, but when the two are combined in a woman, you have one of the most exquisite products of civilization. Andre Maurois
civilization air elements
An immaterial but visible being that inhabited the air when the air was an element and before it was fatally polluted with factory smoke, sewer gas and similar products of civilization. Ambrose Bierce
civilization noise ears
NOISE, n. A stench in the ear. Undomesticated music. The chief product and authenticating sign of civilization.
civilization excess barbarism
Barbarism recommences by the excess of civilization. Alphonse de Lamartine
civilization mind literature
Surely the only sound foundation for a civilization is a sound state of mind. E. M. Forster
civilization age groups
Treating an age group as a demographic requires coming up with something that's common to every single one of them. Right?... So it's reductionist in that it reduces an entire segment of civilization down to one person with one habit. Douglas Rushkoff
civilization feet atheism
I once heard the survivors of a colony of ants that had been partially obliterated by a cow's foot seriously debating the intention of the gods towards their civilization. Don Marquis
civilization roots foundation
Christianity is the very root and foundation of Western civilization. Dinesh D'Souza
civilization belief produce
Godlessness invariably produces vulgarity. Civilization is the product of belief. Cynthia Ozick
civilization luxury goal
The goal of every culture is to decay through over-civilization; the factors of decadence, -- luxury, skepticism, weariness and superstition, -- are constant. The civilization of one epoch becomes the manure of the next. Cyril Connolly
civilization next decadence
The civilization of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.
civilization forgiven civilized
The civilized are those who get more out of life than the uncivilized, and for this we are not likely to be forgiven.