Quotes about civilization
civilization distrust enterprise requires
We should distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes. Henry David Thoreau
civilization created destroy dies necessary unique values violence
Violence is not necessary to destroy a civilization. Each civilization dies from indifference to the unique values which created it. Nicolas Davila
civilization human saved victory
This victory saved human civilization and prevented a retrogression of history, Hu Jintao
civilization key mind open true
The open mind is key to true understanding.
civilization foreign lie policy problem rather roots
The roots of the problem lie with foreign policy rather than in society, civilization or American culture,
civilization cultural freedom offered power refuge religious roots run several soft
The roots of India's soft power run deep. India's is a civilization that, over millennia, has offered refuge and, more importantly, religious and cultural freedom, to Jews, Parsis, several varieties of Christians, and Muslims. Shashi Tharoor
civilization individual mind modern tendency
The tendency in modern civilization is to make the world uniform... Let the mind be universal. The individual should not be sacrificed. Rabindranath Tagore
civilization museums dancer
Civil servants and priests, soldiers and ballet-dancers, schoolmasters and police constables, Greek museums and Gothic steeples, civil list and services list -- the common seed within which all these fabulous beings slumber in embryo is taxation. Karl Marx
civilization environmental done
The development of civilization and industry in general has always shown itself so active in the destruction of forests that everything that has been done for their conservation and production is completely insignificant in comparison.
civilization perfection humanity
The sole precoccupation of this learned society was the destruction of humanity for philanthropic reasons and the perfection of weapons as instruments of civilization. Jules Verne
civilization desert onions
It's hard to imagine a civilization without onions; in one form or another their flavor blends into almost everything in the meal except the desert. Julia Child
civilization kitchen onions
It is hard to imagine a civilization without onions.
civilization ideas dodge
Ive managed to dodge the curse. Not all my family have. Of course, music helped me - music is all about civilization, about something worthwhile. Its all about ideas. Gordon Getty
civilization individual nations
Nations, like individuals, live and die; but civilization cannot die. Giuseppe Mazzini
civilization lows no-money
In societies of low civilization, there is no money. Herbert Spencer
civilization barbarism militarism
Whatever fosters militarism makes for barbarism; whatever fosters peace makes for civilization.
civilization progress homogeneity
Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.
civilization world results
Were civilization itself to be estimated by some of its results, it would seem perhaps better for what we call the barbarous part of the world to remain unchanged. Herman Melville
civilization vaults economics
Bankruptcy and repudiation are the springboards from which much of our civilization vaults and turns its somersets, but the savagestands on the unelastic plank of famine.
civilization may too-much
If I thought that I could speak with discrimination and impartiality of the nations of Christendom, I should praise them, but it tasks me too much. They seem to be the most civil and humane, but I may be mistaken.
civilization earth ecology
We shall be reduced to gnaw the very crust of the earth for nutriment.
civilization wildness
What we call wildness is a civilization other than our own.
civilization giving glances
Give me a Wildness whose glance no civilization can endure.
civilization simplicity
Simplicity is the peak of civilization.
civilization race evil
Civilization is a hopeless race to discover remedies for the evils it produces. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
civilization giving want
Give me civilization. I don't want to be pampered. Jennifer Esposito
civilization people wicked
A civilization is not destroyed by wicked people; it is not necessary that people be wicked but only that they be spineless. James A. Baldwin
civilization levels term
The history of civilization could actually be written in terms of the level of its women. Fulton J. Sheen
civilization danger given
Civilization is always in danger when those who have never learned to obey are given the right to command.
civilization leaving soul
The fact the enemies of God must face is that modern civilization has conquered the world, but in doing so has lost its soul. And in losing its soul it will lose the very world it gained. Even our own so-called Liberal culture in these United States which has tried to avoid complete secularization by leaving little zones of individual freedom is in danger of forgetting that these zones were preserved only because religion was in their soul. And as religion fades so will freedom, for only where the spirit of God is, is there liberty.
civilization disease modern
The disease of mutual distrust among nations is the bane of modern civilization Franz Boas
civilization white guilt
Collective guilt is borne by what is conventionally called the scapegoat. Now the scapegoat for white society - which is based on myths of progress, civilization, liberalism, education, enlightenment, refinement - will be precisely the force that opposes the expansion and the triumph of these myths. This brutal opposing force is supplied by the Negro. Frantz Fanon
civilization gdp gum
It's just a show. It's not the end of Western Civilization. It's chewing gum. Jerry Springer