Quotes about civilization
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 humane humans ideal instead lacks lost men occupied realize seek sight solely thoughts
Our civilization lacks humane feeling. We are humans who are insufficiently humane! We must realize that and seek to find a new spirit. We have lost the sight of this ideal because we are solely occupied with thoughts of men instead of remembering th Albert Schweitzer
civilization decline economic eventual global leading path today toward
Our global civilization today is on an economic path that is environmentally unsustainable, a path that is leading us toward economic decline and eventual collapse. Lester Brown
civilization device
LOCK-AND-KEY, n. The distinguishing device of civilization and enlightenment.
civilization local pillar
I was a glassy-eyed undergraduate. It was a pillar of local civilization. Stewart Brand
civilization voice individuality
The writer in western civilization has become not a voice of his tribe, but of his individuality. This is a very narrow-minded situation. Aharon Appelfeld
civilization space trying
I would be very ashamed of my civilization if we did not try to find out if there is life in outer space. Carl Sagan
civilization cosmos vastness
In the vastness of the Cosmos there must be other civilizations far older and more advanced than ours.
civilization ideas tuesday
For all I know we may be visited by a different extraterrestrial civilization every second Tuesday, but there's no support for this appealing idea. The extraordinary claims are not supported by extraordinary evidence.
civilization space space-travel
Any civilization that doesn't develop space travel dies.
civilization doe lapses
Extremes produce reaction. Beware that our boasted civilization does not lapse into barbarism. Antoine Rivarol
civilization return lovers
As a lover of truth, the national propaganda of all the belligerent nations sickened me. As a lover of civilization, the return to barbarism appalled me. Bertrand Russell
civilization levels savages
Among human beings, the subjection of women is much more complete at a certain level of civilization than it is among savages. And the subjection is always reinforced by morality.
civilization long psychology
Whether science-and indeed civilization in general-can long survive depends upon psychology, that is to say, it depends upon what human beings desire.
civilization opened origins window
It has opened a window into the very origins of Maya civilization.
civilization age degrees
It must be admitted that there is a degree of instability which is inconsistent with civilization. But, on the whole, the great ages have been unstable ages. Alfred North Whitehead
civilization civilized understood
Civilizations can only be understood by those who are civilized.
civilization savages agree
Did you eat something that didn't agree with you?" asked Bernard. The Savage nodded "I ate civilization. Aldous Huxley
civilization tone wickedness
I ate civilization. It poisoned me; I was defiled. And then," he added in a lower tone, "I ate my own wickedness.
civilization sterilization
Civilization is sterilization.
civilization medicine choices
God isn't compatible with machinery and scientific medicine and universal happiness. You must make your choice. Our civilization has chosen machinery and medicine and happiness.
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 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 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.