Raymond Loewy Quotes

Today every city, town, or village is affected by it. We have entered the Neon Civilization and become a plastic world.. It goes deeper than its visual manifestations, it affects moral matters; we are engaged, as astrophysicists would say, on a decaying orbit.

Raymond Loewy

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• A slight daily unconscious luxury is hardly ever wanting to the dwellers in civilization; like the gentle air of a genial climate, it is a perpetual minute enjoyment.

  

  Walter Bagehot
  • Air
  • Daily
  • Civilization

• We Jews have been too adaptable. We have been too eager to sacrifice our idiosyncrasies for the sake of social conformity. … Even in modern civilization, the Jew is most happy if he remains a Jew.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Sacrifice
  • Civilization
  • Jews

• Human civilization has been no more than a strange luminescence growing more intense by the hour, of which no one can say when it will begin to wane and when it will fade away.

  

  W. G. Sebald
  • Growing
  • Human
  • Strange

• Everything our civilization has produced is entombed.

  

  W. G. Sebald
  • Civilization
  • Produced
  • Entombed

• It would appear that the traditional parliamentary democracies can offer no fundamental opposition to that automatism of technological civilization and the industrial-consumer society, for they too are being dragged helplessly along by it. People are manipulated in ways that are infinitely more subtle and refined than the brutal methods used in post-totalitarian societies.

  

  Vaclav Havel
  • People
  • Society
  • Civilization

• The mere smell of cooking can evoke a whole civilization.

  

  Fernand Braudel
  • Cooking
  • Civilization

• Casper Wyo., population 18,000 when I was born, was large enough to hold the surprises of civilization, but small enough that the prairie was close by - for some in our town, right out the front door - stretching on forever, under the great curving sky.

  

  Lynne Cheney
  • Great
  • Small
  • Forever

• Now for good or ill, California is the place where trends tend to be set in Western civilization - if civilization indeed it is. California, for several generations now, has been the newest, biggest, most experimental place in the newest, biggest, most experimental part of liberal Western capitalism - which is itself a new experiment for mankind.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Good
  • America
  • California

• I believe that Western civilization, after some disgusting glitches, has become almost civilized. I believe it is our first duty to protect that civilization. I believe it is our second duty to improve it. I believe it is our third duty to extend it if we can.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Believe
  • Civilization
  • Glitches

• The point of civilization is to be civilized; the purpose of action is to perpetuate society, for only in society can philosophy truly take place.

  

  Iain Pears
  • Society
  • Action
  • Purpose

• You may fly over a land forever; you may bomb it, atomize it, and wipe it clean of life - but if you desire to defend it, protect it,and keep it for civilization, you must do this on the ground, the way the Roman Legions did - by putting your soldiers in the mud.

  

  T. R. Fehrenbach
  • Life
  • May
  • Desire

• The Babylonian and Assyrian civilizations have perished; Hammurabi, Sargon and Nebuchadnezzar are empty names; yet Babylonian mathematics is still interesting, and the Babylonian scale of 60 is still used in Astronomy.

  

  G. H. Hardy
  • Science
  • Interesting
  • Civilization

• 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.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Life
  • Up
  • Money

• I believe in courtesy. It is the way we avoid hurting people's feelings. She thought that maybe, just maybe, western civilization was in decline because people did not take time to take tea at four o'clock.

  

  E. L. Konigsburg
  • People
  • Time
  • Believe

• I think women can save civilization.

  

  Emily Murphy
  • Thinking
  • Women
  • Woman

• It's our children and our children's children who will be affected by this technology, and it is up to us to stop it. I hope you will join us.

  

  James Cromwell
  • Children
  • Technology
  • Affected

• The legalized liquor business is the tragedy of our civilization. Alcohol is the greatest and most blighting curse of our modern civilization. The liquor seller is simply and only a privileged malefactor - a criminal.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Business
  • Civilization
  • Tragedy

• He is the happiest man who is engaged in a business which tasks the most faculties of his mind.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Man
  • Engaged
  • Happiest

• Time strips our illusions of their hue, And one by one in turn, some grand mistake Casts off its bright skin yearly like the snake.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Mistake
  • Skin
  • Illusions

• He moves with so much grace and so much control. He's so strong, but at the same time, he's so soft. It's just so comfortable to dance with him.

  

  Yaya DaCosta
  • Control
  • Grace
  • Moves

• It's an amazing confidence boost when you have that swagger of knowing when you pull on the racetrack, all eyes are on you because they know you're the best.

  

  Denny Hamlin
  • Best
  • Confidence
  • Because

• If you're looking for your own idea of your own identity you know the human genome may not be the best place to look for it. You're just looking at a bunch of viruses.

  

  Carl Zimmer
  • Ideas
  • Humans
  • Bunch

• Today every city, town, or village is affected by it. We have entered the Neon Civilization and become a plastic world.. It goes deeper than its visual manifestations, it affects moral matters; we are engaged, as astrophysicists would say, on a decaying orbit.

  

  Raymond Loewy
  • Civilization
  • Manifestation
  • Engaged