Quotes about civilization
civilization jehovah middle
The Jews always complained, kvetching about false gods, and erected the biggest false God, Jehovah, in middle of western civilization. Allen Ginsberg
civilization ignorant shepherds
We are like ignorant shepherds living on a site where great civilizations once flourished. Allan Bloom
civilization savages
You will find liberals always rooting for savages against civilization. Ann Coulter
civilization excess barbarism
Barbarism recommences by the excess of civilization. Alphonse de Lamartine
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 worship skyscraper
Our concern is not how to worship in the catacombs but how to remain human in the skyscrapers. Abraham Joshua Heschel
civilization voice knives
In the midst of our applauding the feats of civilization, the Bible flings itself like a knife slashing our complacency; remind us that God, too, has a voice in history.
civilization mind zombie
One mind awake can become stronger than a thousand zombies sleepwalking in a dying civilization. Alex Smith
civilization childhood humanity
... we will hope that future historians will explain the morbid symptoms of present-day society as the childhood ailments of an aspiring humanity, due entirely to the excessive speed at which civilization was advancing. Albert Einstein
civilization despise mailman
Please, never despise the translator. He's the mailman of human civilization. Alexander Pushkin
civilization humanity foundation
Love as a concrete foundation for an authentically functional civilization requires the around-the-clock labors of forgiveness. Without it, Love fails, Friendship fails, Intelligence fails, Humanity: fails. Aberjhani
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 collapse combat current fear parts rise spread stand
Civilization must stand up and combat the current collapse of governance, the rise of violence, and the spread of chaos and fear in many parts of the world. Rudy Giuliani
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
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 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.