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We are the first atheistic and global, all-embracing civilization. You cannot tell whether you are sitting at an airport in Hong Kong or in a hotel in Alaska. Everything is instrumentalized, subjected to a short-term purpose. It is quite possible that in such a situation any sense of a deeper meaning gets lost.Collection: Civilization
The African tribesman, with his complete contempt for truth and his emphasis on brutality and savagery for others but not for himself, is a no-civilization.Collection: Civilization
Had Greek civilization never existed ... we would never have become fully conscious.Collection: Civilization
There's a completely new culture out there. I'm not a participant of texting and driving - or texting at all - but I see there's something going on in civilization which is coming with great vehemence at us.Collection: Civilization
Practical dreamers have always been and always will be the pattern-makers of civilization.Collection: Civilization
You may as well know, also, that every great leader, from the dawn of civilization down to the present, was a dreamer.Collection: Civilization
The broken eggshell of a civilization which time has hatched and devoured.Collection: Civilization
The taming and domestication of religion is one of the unceasing chores of civilization.Collection: Civilization
Western civilization has not yet learned the lesson that the energy we expend in 'getting things done' is less important than the moral strength it takes to decide what is worth doing and what is right to do.Collection: Civilization
If a superior alien civilization sent us a message saying, 'We'll arrive in a few decades', would we just reply, 'OK, call us when you get here - we'll leave the lights on'? Probably not - but this is more or less what is happening with AI.Collection: Civilization
The easily ridiculed, so-so status quo often hides Herculean efforts by those whom we take for granted, and who, working in the shadows, guarantee civilization instead of chaos.Collection: Civilization
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.Collection: Civilization
Respectability is the dickey on the bosom of civilization.Collection: Civilization
Burning all the fossil fuels will destroy the planet we know, Creation, the planet of stable climate in which civilization developed.Collection: Civilization
Every civilization depends upon the quality of the individuals it produces.Collection: Civilization
Last evening attended Croghan Lodge International Order of Odd Fellows. Election of officers. Chosen Noble Grand. These social organizations have a number of good results. All who attend are educated in self-government. This in a marked way. They bind society together. The well-to-do and the poor should be brought together as much as possible. The separation into classes--castes--is our danger. It is the danger of all civilizations.Collection: Civilization
It was one of the great mass achievements of American civilization, and we did it because we thought if you were going to have a democratic form of government, people had to be able to read and understand complicated ideas on their own.Collection: Civilization
It may indeed prove to be far the most difficult and not the least important task for human reason rationally to comprehend its own limitations. It is essential for the growth of reason that as individuals we should bow to forces and obey principles which we cannot hope fully to understand, yet on which the advance and even the preservation of civilization depend.Collection: Civilization
I'm sure civilizations will still evolve through play, or rather as play, since that seems to be a fundamental mechanism of our humanity.Collection: Civilization
We live in a society that has no adequate images anymore, and if we do not find adequate images and an adequate language for our civilization with which to express them, we will die out like the dinosaurs.Collection: Civilization
We do not see the danger clearly enough that we develop images adequate to our state of civilization. When you watch TV, you know instantly that there's something wrong with the images. When you open a magazine and see the ads, you know there's something wrong with the images. And it's unhealthy and not good and outright dangerous, in my opinion.Collection: Civilization
California is now close to spending more on prisons than it does on higher education - surely the death warrant of a civilization.Collection: Civilization
Without metaphor the handling of general concepts such as culture and civilization becomes impossible, and that of disease and disorder is the obvious one for the case in point. Is not crisis itself a concept we owe to Hippocrates? In the social and cultural domain no metaphor is more apt than the pathological one.Collection: Civilization
It seemed to me,' said Wonko the Sane, 'that any civilization that had so far lost its head as to need to include a set of detailed instructions for use in a package of toothpicks, was no longer a civilization in which I could live and stay sane.Collection: Civilization
Poets are the leaven in the lump of civilization.Collection: Civilization
The History of every major Galactic Civilization tends to pass through three distinct and recognizable phases, those of Survival, Inquiry and Sophistication, otherwise known as the How, Why, and Where phases. For instance, the first phase is characterized by the question 'How can we eat?' the second by the question 'Why do we eat?' and the third by the question 'Where shall we have lunch?Collection: Civilization
A nation that fails to plan intelligently for the development and protection of its precious waters will be condemned to wither because of its shortsightedness. The hard lessons of history are clear, written on the deserted sands and ruins of once proud civilizations.Collection: Civilization
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.Collection: Civilization
Civilization may be said indeed to be the creation of its outlaws.Collection: Civilization
Did you eat something that didn't agree with you?" asked Bernard. The Savage nodded "I ate civilization.Collection: Civilization
The quantity of civilization is measured by the quality of imagination.Collection: Civilization
Writers sometimes talk as though they were the only friends of civilization. This is their conceit. But they have special powers to serve -- or to corrupt -- civilization, and are obliged to use them.Collection: Civilization
In many of the more relaxed civilizations on the Outer Eastern Rim of the Galaxy, the Hitch-Hiker's Guide has already supplanted the great Encyclopaedia Galactica as the standard repository of all knowledge and wisdom, for though it has many omissions and contains much that is apocryphal, or at least wildly inaccurate, it scores over the older, more pedestrian work in two important respects. First, it is slightly cheaper; and secondly it has the words DON'T PANIC inscribed in large friendly letters on its cover.Collection: Civilization
Revolution is the larva of civilization.Collection: Civilization
Liberty is the condition of progress. Without Liberty, there remains only barbarism. Without Liberty, there can be no civilization.Collection: Civilization
Fundamentalist tendencies and movements existed, so far as I know, in all societies and civilizations.Collection: Civilization
Civilization is sterilization.Collection: Civilization
That’s what painting does; it organizes vision in a certain way or suggests that certain things be paid attention to and certain other things not be paid attention to. It functions in that way to a certain extent in our civilization.Collection: Civilization
Civilization is a disease which is almost invariably fatal.Collection: Civilization
Civilization is not and can never be sustainable.Collection: Civilization
No healthy civilization can ever be reared on a foundation of devitalized work.Collection: Civilization
The effect of boredom on a large scale in history is underestimated. It is a main cause of revolutions, and would soon bring to an end all the static Utopias and the farmyard civilization of the Fabians.Collection: Civilization
Once we allow ourselves to be disobedient to the test of an accountant's profit, we have begun to change our civilization.Collection: Civilization
Civilizations evolve over time, and most scholars of civilization, including people like Carol Quigley, argue that they go through periods of warring states, and eventually evolve into a universal state.Collection: Civilization
Yes. They are the words that finally turned me into the hermit I have now become. It was quite sudden. I saw them, and I knew what I had to do." The sign read: "Hold stick near center of its length. Moisten pointed end in mouth. Insert in tooth space, blunt end next to gum. Use gentle in-out motion." "It seemed to me," said Wonko the Sane, "that any civilization that had so far lost its head as to need to include a set of detailed instructions for use in a package of toothpicks, was no longer a civilization in which I could live and stay sane.Collection: Civilization
The greatest problem for the human species, the solution of which nature compels him to seek, is that of attaining a civil society which can administer justice universally.Collection: Civilization
A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization.Collection: Civilization
From the beginning, this culture - civilization - has been a culture of occupation.Collection: Civilization
civilization is a transient sickness.Collection: Civilization