Quotes about civilization
civilization elderly political
A commonplace of political rhetoric has it that the quality of a civilization may be measured by how it cares for its elderly. Just as surely, the future of a society may be forecast by how it cares for its young. Daniel Patrick Moynihan
civilization nihilism culture
Nihilism is a natural consequence of a culture (or civilization) ruled and regulated by categories that mask manipulation, mastery and domination of peoples and nature. Cornel West
civilization dachau foolish
The things I believed in dont exist any more. It's foolish to pretend that they do. Western Civilization finally went up in smoke in the chimneys at Dachau but I was too infatuated to see it. I see it now. Cormac McCarthy
civilization house way
If we built houses the way we build software, the first woodpecker to come along would destroy civilization. Clifford Stoll
civilization barbarism tendencies
The ultimate tendency of civilization is towards barbarism. David Hare
civilization survival strategy
When the survival strategy of a civilization is invalidated, in all of human history none have ever turned back from the brink. Daniel Suarez
civilization agriculture founders
The farmers are the founders of civilization. Daniel Webster
civilization jail people
You can tell a lot about a civilization by the quality of the people found in its jails. David Gerrold
civilization looks stories
If you look at any ancient civilization, they've all used fantasy stories to train the young. David Gemmell
civilization unbroken way
The notion of a separate organism is clearly an abstraction, as is also its boundary. Underlying all this is unbroken wholeness even though our civilization has developed in such a way as to strongly emphasize the separation into parts. David Bohm
civilization history moral nice record
K is for Kenghis Khan. He was a very nice person. History has no record of him. There is a moral in that, somewhere. Harlan Ellison
civilization empire expression great gross huge path production utility waiting
Gross utility kills beauty. We now have all over the world huge production of things, huge organizations, huge administrations of empire - all obstructing the path of life. Civilization is waiting for a great consummation, for an expression of its so Rabindranath Tagore
civilization enormous environmental given single technology took
Civilization has given us enormous successes: going to the moon, technology. But then this is the civilisation that took us to debt, environmental crisis, every single crisis. We need a civilization where we say goodbye to these things. Muhammad Yunus
civilization local pillar
I was a glassy-eyed undergraduate. It was a pillar of local civilization. Stewart Brand
civilization lasts analysis
In the last analysis civilization is based upon the food supply. Will Durant
civilization fan god talk talking western
It's only Western civilization that, God forbid, you talk about dying, when it's the only thing we know for certain, right? Everyone's going to die, so what's the big problem? 'Oh, God. Don't talk about it. Don't think about it.' I mean, I'm one of them. I'm not a big fan of talking about dying. Abel Ferrara
civilization component interest involved processes simplicity
Must simplicity and humanity go under in the interest of progress? What is the most important component of civilization - is it human or mechanical? Must thought processes become involved and insincere? Must the class-struggle warp those who are involved in it? Peter Abrahams
civilization key mind open true
The open mind is key to true understanding.
civilization
To the brains of our predecessors we owe all of our inheritance of civilization and culture. John Eccles
civilization gasoline chemistry
I would have been dead if it weren't for that great gift to civilization from the Chemistry Department of Harvard, which was napalm, or sticky jellied gasoline. Kurt Vonnegut
civilization ideas might
Where do I get my ideas from? You might as well have asked that of Beethoven. He was goofing around in Germany like everybody else, and all of a sudden this stuff came gushing out of him. It was music. I was goofing around like everybody else in Indiana, and all of a sudden stuff came gushing out. It was disgust with civilization.
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 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 device
LOCK-AND-KEY, n. The distinguishing device of civilization and enlightenment.
civilization opened origins window
It has opened a window into the very origins of Maya civilization.
civilization fields degrees
Our civilization depends critically on software, and we have a dangerously low degree of professionalism in the computer fields Bjarne Stroustrup
civilization energy advanced-civilization
Really advanced civilization is based on advances in energy. Bill Gates
civilization hands progress
Civilization and profit go hand in hand. Calvin Coolidge