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Spanish civilization crushed the Indian. English civilization scorned and neglected him. French civilization embraced and cherished him.Collection: Civilization
Not by force of arms are civilizations held together, but by subtle threads of moral and intellectual principle.Collection: Civilization
Please, never despise the translator. He's the mailman of human civilization.Collection: Civilization
Love as a concrete foundation for an authentically functional civilization requires the around-the-clock labors of forgiveness. Without it, Love fails, Friendship fails, Intelligence fails, Humanity: fails.Collection: Civilization
Osbert was the only one who didn't seem suspicious. He was so interested in the Decline of Western Civilization that he missed the version of it taking place under his nose.Collection: Civilization
Lucifer represents life, though, progress, civilization, liberty, independence. Lucifer is the Logos, the Serpent, the Savior.Collection: Civilization
Civilization may progress, human nature will remain the same throughout all ages.Collection: Civilization
I take "We, the People" seriously because I don't know how we build a civilization without reciprocity.Collection: Civilization
They have an amazing proliferation of TV channels now: The all-cartoon channel, the 24-hour-science fiction channel. Of course, to make room for these they got rid of the Literacy Channel and the What's Left of Civilization Channel.Collection: Civilization
Handwriting is civilization's casual encephalogram.Collection: Civilization
A tablecloth restaurant is still one of the great rewards of civilization.Collection: Civilization
By suppressing differences and peculiarities, by eliminating different civilizations and cultures, progress weakens life and favors deathCollection: Civilization
And I cried… for all of the women who stretched their bodies for civilizations, only to find ruins.Collection: Civilization
Science?is so greatly opposed to history and tradition that it cannot be absorbed by our civilization.Collection: Civilization
Music has power to create a universe or to destroy a civilization.Collection: Civilization
The luxuries of civilization satisfy only those wants which they themselves create.Collection: Civilization
In Antarctica you get to know people so well that in comparison you do not seem to know the people in civilization at all.Collection: Civilization
But neither money nor machines can create. They shuttle tokens of energy, but they do not transform. A civilization based on them puts people out of touch with their creative powers.Collection: Civilization
Cities are the least permanent things in our civilization.Collection: Civilization
If you chase two rabbits, you will lose them both.Collection: Civilization
I am a great believer in what we've been told time and time again by people like Joseph Campbell, "find your bliss." Find out what it is that touches you most deeply. Pursue it, learn about it, explore it, expand on it. Live with it and nurture it. Find your own way and make your own contribution. Find a way to make a contribution to this society because God knows we need contributions from the coming generation. This planet and this civilization is in need. I see it as a time of need.Collection: Civilization
Civilizations have been founded and maintained on theories which refused to obey facts.Collection: Civilization
Muscles without strength, friendship without trust, opinion without risk, change without aesthetics, age without values, food without nourishment, power without fairness, facts without rigor, degrees without erudition, militarism without fortitude, progress without civilization, complication without depth, fluency without content; these are the sins to remember.Collection: Civilization
For the first time in its history, Western Civilization is in danger of being destroyed internally by a corrupt, criminal ruling cabal which is centered around the Rockefeller interests, which include elements from the Morgan, Brown, Rothschild, Du Pont, Harriman, Kuhn-Loeb, and other groupings as well. This junta took control of the political, financial, and cultural life of America in the first two decades of the twentieth century.Collection: Civilization
Civilization is not a spontaneous generation with any race or nation known to history, but the torch is handed down from race to race and from age to age, and gains in brilliancy as it goes.Collection: Civilization
Civilization is always in danger when those who have never learned to obey are given the right to command.Collection: Civilization
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.Collection: Civilization
Civilization is a perishable commodity.Collection: Civilization
The yearning after equality [in economic outcome] is the offspring of envy and covetousness, and there is no possible plan for satisfying that yearning which can do aught else than rob A to give to B; consequently all such plans nourish some of the meanest vices of human nature, waste capital, and overthrow civilization.Collection: Civilization
Technological civilization has now dominated the earth to the point where there is a big question what is going to happen next.Collection: Civilization
Fortunately, at the last hour, there were always a few soldiers to save Civilization.Collection: Civilization
Our civilization depends critically on software, and we have a dangerously low degree of professionalism in the computer fieldsCollection: Civilization
[A]nother important difference between tourist and traveler is that the former accepts his own civilization without question; not so the traveler, who compares it with the others, and rejects those elements he finds not to his liking.Collection: Civilization
When the survival strategy of a civilization is invalidated, in all of human history none have ever turned back from the brink.Collection: Civilization
When one group rules another, the relationship between the two is political. When such an arrangement is carried out over a long period of time it develops an ideology (feudalism, racism, etc.). All historical civilizations are patriarchies: their ideology is male supremacy.Collection: Civilization
Nuclear weapons are inherently threatening to all of civilization. If that had been a nuclear weapon at the World Trade Center, even the most primitive kind of the Hiroshima, Nagasaki, you wouldn't have a Manhattan. There wouldn't be a democracy of any kind in America.Collection: Civilization
I saw someone peeing in Jermym Street the other day. I thought, is this the end of civilization as we know it? Or is it simply someone peeing in Jermyn Street?Collection: Civilization
Technological civilization... rests fundamentally on power-driven machinery which transcends the physical limits of its human directors, multiplying indefinitely the capacity for the production of goods. Science in all its branches - physics, chemistry, biology, and psychology - is the servant and upholder of this systemCollection: Civilization
sharing is the secret of civilization.Collection: Civilization
Anything that we scientists can do to weaken the hold of religion, should be done and may, in fact, in the end, be our greatest contribution to civilization.Collection: Civilization
The best defence [for a democracy, for the public good] is aggressiveness, the aggressiveness of the involved citizen. We need to reassert that slow, time-consuming, inefficient, boring process that requires our involvement; it is called 'being a citizen.' The public good is not something that you can see. It is not static. It is a process. It is the process by which democratic civilizations build themselves.Collection: Civilization
Forests precede civilizations and deserts follow them.Collection: Civilization
Civilization is hideously fragile... there's not much between us and the Horrors underneath, just about a coat of varnish.Collection: Civilization
Society in its full sense ... is never an entity separable from the individuals who compose it. No individual can arrive even at the threshold of his potentialities without a culture in which he participates. Conversely, no civilization has in it any element which in the last analysis is not the contribution of an individual.Collection: Civilization
Interlibrary loans are a wonder of the world and a glory of civilization.Collection: Civilization
Extremes produce reaction. Beware that our boasted civilization does not lapse into barbarism.Collection: Civilization
The only people who steal are thieves, and that’s a very small percentage of civilization. Most people want to have some way to make the economic transaction valid. They want to return the favor, if you will… return the benefit and reciprocate...Collection: Civilization
The disease of mutual distrust among nations is the bane of modern civilizationCollection: Civilization
The notion of a separate organism is clearly an abstraction, as is also its boundary. Underlying all this is unbroken wholeness even though our civilization has developed in such a way as to strongly emphasize the separation into parts.Collection: Civilization
There is no document of civilization which is not at the same time a document of barbarism.Collection: Civilization