Civilization Quotes
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We know next to nothing about virtually everything. It is not necessary to know the origin of the universe; it is necessary to want to know. Civilization depends not on any particular knowledge, but on the disposition to crave knowledge
George Will -
The measure of any great civilization is its cities and a measure of a city's greatness is to be found in the quality of its public spaces, its parks and squares.
John Ruskin
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First in point of time and interest comes the mortgage debt, i.e. the claim for the return of money lent on the security of some tangible object. Such claims are among the earliest fruits of a commercial civilization, and are nearly always affected the same way, viz. by the deposit or pledge of the security with the creditor, to be redeemed or returned on the payment of the debt.
Edward Jenks -
... it is a matter of civilizing everyone or not being civilized at all: the decay has always come from a partial civilization.
Freya Stark -
Today, human civilization is drowning in a sea of lies.
L. Neil Smith -
Is man’s civilization only a wrappage, through which the savage nature of him can still burst, infernal as ever?
Thomas Carlyle -
America didn’t bypass or escape civilization. It did something far more profound, far cleverer: it simply changed what civilization could be.
Adrian Anthony Gill -
If hand-drawn animation is a dying craft, we can't do anything about it. Civilization moves on. Where are all the fresco painters now? Where are the landscape artists? What are they doing now? The world is changing. I have been very fortunate to be able to do the same job for 40 years. That's rare in any era.
Hayao Miyazaki
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The study of history, it seems to me, leads to the conviction that all important events tend toward the same end - the civilization of mankind.
Madame de Stael -
In North Africa they had the Arab with the gun and whip, but he could force people to do things ... and he accomplished a tremendous amount of extermination, but he certainly didn't advance that civilization very much.
L. Ron Hubbard -
The ancient Egyptians were Negroes. The moral fruit of their civilization is to be counted among the assets of the Black world.
Cheikh Anta Diop -
Practical dreamers have always been and always will be the pattern-makers of civilization.
Napoleon Hill -
The inclination to aggression constitutes the greatest impediment to civilization.
Sigmund Freud -
A useful analogy is to see traditional societies as relying on instantaneous (or minimally delayed) and constantly replenished solar income, while modern civilization is withdrawing accumulated solar capital at rates that will exhaust it in a tiny fraction of the time that was needed to create it.
Vaclav Smil
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Civilization is only a series of victories against nature.
William Harvey -
The fundamental reality of any civilization must be its geographical cradle. Geography dictates its vegetational growth and lays down often impassable frontiers. Civilizations are regions, zones not merely as anthropologists understand them when they talk about the zone of the two-headed ax or the feathered arrow; they are areas which both confine man and undergo constant change through its efforts.
Fernand Braudel -
The civilization of a state should be measured by the amount of suffering it prevents and the degree of happiness it makes possible for its citizens.
Helen Keller -
No matter how much restriction civilization imposes on the individual, he nevertheless finds some way to circumvent it. Wit is the best safety valve modern man has evolved; the more civilization, the more repression, the more need there is for wit.".
Sigmund Freud -
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 -
Who are we to say what's right for civilizations that were already thousands of years old when our own nation came into being?
Unita Zelma Blackwell
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Civilization - a heap of rubble scavenged by scrawny English Lit. vultures.
Malcolm Muggeridge -
One... gets an impression that civilization is something which was imposed on a resisting majority by a minority which understood how to obtain possession of the means to power and coercion. It is, of course, natural to assume that these difficulties are not inherent in the nature of civilization itself but are determined by the imperfections of the cultural forms which have so far been developed.
Sigmund Freud -
On Mars, the crumbling remains of ancient civilizations may be found, mutely testifying to the one-time glory of a dying world.
P. E. Cleator -
Civilization does everything for the mind and favors it entirely at the expense of the body.
Napoleon Bonaparte