Famous Quotes & Sayings

Margaret Mead

we came to realize that a civilization which rode roughshod over the way of life of other peoples was incorporating evil in its own way of life.

Ludwig von Mises

A higher standard of living also brings about a higher standard of culture and civilization.

Ludwig von Mises

The market system is the basis of our civilization. Its only alternative is the Führer principle.

Ludwig von Mises

The essential characteristic of Western civilization that distinguishes it from the arrested and petrified civilizations of the East was and is its concern for freedom from the state.

Ludwig von Mises

My theories explain, but cannot slow the decline of a great civilization. I set out to be a reformer, but only became the historian of decline.

Ludwig von Mises

We owe the origin and development of human society and, consequently, of culture and civilization, to the fact that work performed under the division of labor is more productive than when performed in isolation.

Ludwig von Mises

Civilization is a work of peaceful co-operation.

Ludwig von Mises

If history could teach us anything, it would be that private property is inextricably linked with civilization.

Ludwig von Mises

It cannot be denied that Fascism and similar movements aiming at the establishment of dictatorships are full of the best intentions and that their intervention has, for the moment, saved European civilization. The merit that Fascism has thereby won for itself will live on eternally in history.

Mel Gibson

I don't think we're crumbling as a civilization, but this is not our finest hour, and it's good to be mindful that we're all susceptible to fall and to look at what are the earmarks of a civilization on the wane. What are they - destruction of the environment? Conspicuous consumption? Heard of those?

Bertrand Russell

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

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.

Bertrand Russell

Whether science-and indeed civilization in general-can long survive depends upon psychology, that is to say, it depends upon what human beings desire.

E. F. Schumacher

Few can contemplate without a sense of exhilaration the splendid achievements of practical energy and technical skill, which, from the latter part of the seventeenth century, were transforming the face of material civilization, and of which England was the daring, if not too scrupulous, pioneer.

Henry David Thoreau

We should distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.

Nicolas Davila

Violence is not necessary to destroy a civilization. Each civilization dies from indifference to the unique values which created it.

Mahatma Gandhi

Civilization is not an incurable disease, but it should never be forgotten that the English people are at present afflicted by it.

James Norman Hall

When urbanity decays, civilization suffers and decays with it.

James Lovelock

Civilization in its present form hasn't got long.

Joe Rogan

Our entire civilization is built on a foundation of unfixable bullshit.

John Dos Passos

The people of the United States have been fortunate in many things. One of the things in which we have been most fortunate has been that so far, due perhaps to certain basic virtues in our traditional ways of doing things, we have managed to keep the crisis of western civilization, which has devastated the rest of the world and in which we are as much involved as anybody, more or less at arm's length.

John Milius

A lot of people thought of me as a threat to Western civilization.

Johan Huizinga

Without metaphor the handling of general concepts such as culture and civilization becomes impossible, and that of disease and disorder is the obvious one for the case in point. Is not crisis itself a concept we owe to Hippocrates? In the social and cultural domain no metaphor is more apt than the pathological one.

Johan Huizinga

The spirit of playful competition is, as a social impulse, older than culture itself and pervades all life like a veritable ferment. Ritual grew up in sacred play; poetry was born in play and nourished on play; music and dancing were pure play....We have to conclude, therefore, that civilization is, in its earliest phases, played. It does not come from play...it arises in and as play, and never leaves it.

Jimmy Sangster

There are certain things for which civilization has no answer. But if you choose to meddle thus, then you must be prepared to facethe consequences, whatever they are.

George Leonard

It's fitting, then, that we begin this exploration of ourselves and of the world with music, and more specifically with a musical quality called vibrato. This pulsation that wells up within the sounded note can lead us to what is most spontaneous and creative in human life, and possibly even to deeper mysteries--to powers of knowing and doing which we have lost or given away during the epoch of civilization, and which perhaps we may now regain.

Eckhart Tolle

Why is old considered useless? Because in old age, the emphasis shifts from doing to Being, and our civilization, which is lost in doing, knows nothing of Being. It asks: Being? What do you do with it?

Jose Rizal

Death has always been the first sign of European civilization when introduced in the Pacific.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

Civilization is nothing else but the attempt to reduce force to being the last resort.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

The cynic, a parasite of civilization, lives by denying it, for the very reason that he is convinced that it will not fail.

Jose Bergamin

A German immersed in any civilization different from his own loses a weight equivalent in volume to the amount of intelligence he displaces.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Civilization does everything for the mind and favors it entirely at the expense of the body.

Narendra Modi

India is a civilization with a history that is thousands of years old.The diversity of India, of our civilization, is actually a thing of beauty, which is something we are extremely proud of.