Civilization Quotes
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Civilization never recedes; the law of necessity ever forces it onwards.
Jules Verne -
War creates no absolutely new situation: it simply aggravates the permanent human situation so that we can no longer ignore it. Human life has always been lived on the edge of a precipice.
C. S. Lewis
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Modern Existentialism... is a total European creation, perhaps the last philosophic legacy of Europe to America or whatever other civilization is now on its way to supplant Europe.
William Barrett -
Civility isn't just some optional value in a multicultural, multistate democratic republic. Civility is the key to civilization.
Van Jones -
The quantity of civilization is measured by the quality of imagination.
Victor Hugo -
Civilization may progress, human nature will remain the same throughout all ages.
H. P. Blavatsky -
It is impossible to overlook the extent to which civilization is built upon a renunciation of instinct.
Sigmund Freud -
The law should be the point at which savagery ended because civilization stood in its path.
Ariana Franklin
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If youth were not ignorant and timid, civilization would be impossible.
Honore de Balzac -
The imagination is the secret and marrow of civilization. It is the very eye of faith.
Henry Ward Beecher -
There are a lot of ways an oppressed people can rise. One way to rise is to study, to be smarter than your oppressor. The concept of rising against oppression through physical contact is stupid and self-defeating. It exalts brawn over brain. And the most enduring contributions made to civilization have not been made by brawn, they have been made by brain.
Benjamin Hooks -
In the advance of civilization, it is new knowledge which paves the way, and the pavement is eternal.
Willis R. Whitney -
The real people who hold our civilization together are the maintenance people. If it weren't for them - pumping water out of subways, painting bridges to keep from rusting, fixing a steam pipe that is 70 years old - we'd be sunk. If we got rid of all the politicians and the policymakers in the world, the world would keep going. If you get rid of maintenance people, the whole thing breaks down.
Alan Weisman -
Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock.
Sigmund Freud
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The inventor tries to meet the demand of a crazy civilization.
Thomas A. Edison -
Is a planetary surface the right place for an expanding technological civilization?
Gerard K. O'Neill -
I was watching a collection of vintage '80s cereal commercials when I paused to wonder why cereal manufacturers no longer included toy prizes inside every box. It was a tragedy, in my opinion. Another sign that civilization was going straight down the tubes.
Ernest Cline -
When I go biking, I am mentally far far away from civilization. The world is breaking someone else's heart.
Diane Ackerman -
The first requisite of civilization, therefore, is that of justice — that is, the assurance that a law once made will not be broken in favour of an individual. This implies nothing as to the ethical value of such a law.
Sigmund Freud -
The curse of poverty has no justification in our age. It is socially as cruel and blind as the practice of cannibalism at the dawn of civilization, when men ate each other because they had not yet learned to take food from the soil or to consume the abundant animal life around them. The time has come for us to civilize ourselves by the total, direct and immediate abolition of poverty.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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If you will protest courageously, and yet with dignity and Christian love, when the history books are written in future generations, the historians will have to pause and say, "There lived a great people-a black people-who injected new meaning and dignity into the veins of civilization.
Martin Luther King, Jr. -
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 -
Can a civilization hold together if man abandons his faith in God?
Will Durant -
Loving Your Enemies... Far from being the pious injunction of a utopian dreamer, this demand is an absolute necessity for the survival of our civilization. Yes it is love that will save our world and civilization; love even for our enemies.
Martin Luther King, Jr.