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Image of Joseph Sobran
Destroying white civilization is the inmost desire of the league of designated victims we call minorities.
- Joseph Sobran
Collection: Civilization
Image of Marie Stopes
A modern and humane civilization must control conception or sink into barbaric cruelty to individuals.
- Marie Stopes
Collection: Civilization
Image of Kathleen Sebelius
As you know we are facing the end of the Western Civilization by having a market based strategy, we are bringing Western Civilization to its knees by selling private insurance plans on a website where people pick and choose.
- Kathleen Sebelius
Collection: Civilization
Image of S. J. Perelman
There is such a thing as too much couth.
- S. J. Perelman
Collection: Civilization
Image of Felix Adler
There is as yet no civilized society, but only a society in the process of becoming civilized. There is as yet no civilized nation, but only nations in the process of becoming civilized. From this standpoint, we can now speak of a collective task of humankind. The task of humanity is to build a genuine civilization.
- Felix Adler
Collection: Civilization
Image of George Steiner
When it turned on the Jew, Christianity and European civilization turned on the incarnation - albeit an incarnation often wayward and unaware - of its own best hopes.
- George Steiner
Collection: Civilization
Image of Hendrik Willem van Loon
Nature is rarely allowed to enter the sacred portals of civilized society.
- Hendrik Willem van Loon
Collection: Civilization
Image of Edgar Saltus
[T]he progress of civilization corresponds with the spread of general nausea.
- Edgar Saltus
Collection: Civilization
Image of Gene Cernan
I've been asked about UFOs and I've said publicly I thought they were somebody else, some other civilization.
- Gene Cernan
Collection: Civilization
Image of A. A. Gill
America didn’t bypass or escape civilization. It did something far more profound, far cleverer: it simply changed what civilization could be.
- A. A. Gill
Collection: Civilization
Image of David Goodstein
Civilization as we know it will come to an end sometime in this century unless we can find a way to live without fossil fuels.
- David Goodstein
Collection: Civilization
Image of Hideki Tojo
Justice has nothing to do with victor nations and vanquished nations, but must be a moral standard that all the world's peoples can agree to. To seek this and to achieve it - that is true civilization
- Hideki Tojo
Collection: Civilization
Image of William H. Calvin
Unless we redesign our civilization in numerous ways, all of the science in the world won't save us.
- William H. Calvin
Collection: Civilization
Image of Matilda Joslyn Gage
The careful student of history will discover that Christianity has been of very little value in advancing civilization, but has done a great deal toward retarding it.
- Matilda Joslyn Gage
Collection: Civilization
Image of Rene Dubos
Each civilization has its own kind of pestilence and can control it only by reforming itself.
- Rene Dubos
Collection: Civilization
Image of Peter Scott
Every bride and groom in the history of civilization has gained weight after their wedding day. It is only a matter of time until archaeologists unearth a married caveman who's wearing a pair of old tux pants that were so tight he couldn't get the zipper closed.
- Peter Scott
Collection: Civilization
Image of Francine du Plessix Gray
The choice between starving and being eaten is an exotic one.
- Francine du Plessix Gray
Collection: Civilization
Image of Isabel Briggs Myers
the present Western civilization ... is dominated by the extravert viewpoint. There are plenty of reasons for this domination: extraverts are more vocal than introverts; they are more numerous, apparently in the ratio of three to one; and they are accessible and understandable, whereas the introverts are not readily understandable, even to each other, and are likely to be thoroughly incomprehensible to the extraverts.
- Isabel Briggs Myers
Collection: Civilization
Image of Gary North
Karl Marx was the foremost hater and most incessant whiner in the history of Western Civilization. He was a spoiled, overeducated brat who never grew up; he just grew more shrill as he grew older. His lifelong hatred and whining have led to the deaths (so far) of perhaps a hundred million people, depending on how many people perished under Mao's tyranny. We will probably never know.
- Gary North
Collection: Civilization
Image of Lester R. Brown
No civilization has survived the ongoing destruction of its natural support systems. Nor will ours.
- Lester R. Brown
Collection: Civilization
Image of Gustave Le Bon
All the civilizations we know have been created and directed by small intellectual aristocracies, never by people in the mass. The power of crowds is only to destroy.
- Gustave Le Bon
Collection: Civilization
Image of E. Haldeman-Julius
It is pretty well settled that the city is the Negro's great contribution to civilization, for it was in Africa where the first cities grew up.
- E. Haldeman-Julius
Collection: Civilization
Image of William Barrett
The philosopher cannot seriously put to himself questions that his civilization has not lived.
- William Barrett
Collection: Civilization
Image of Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
Before we can build a stable civilization worthy of humanity as a whole, it is necessary that each historical civilization should become conscious of its limitations and it's unworthiness to become the ideal civilization of the world.
- Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
Collection: Civilization
Image of Edgar Mitchell
Transcendence gets you beyond ego. If you go beyond ego, you see all of this in a more decent perspective and you can start to put all the pieces together. We haven't done that yet. Not as a civilization.
- Edgar Mitchell
Collection: Civilization
Image of John H. Vincent
Ideas are the factors that lift civilization. They create revolutions. There is more dynamite in an idea than in many bombs.
- John H. Vincent
Collection: Civilization
Image of Charles Fourier
Civilization is a social plague on the planet, and vices are just as necessary to it as is a virus to disease.
- Charles Fourier
Collection: Civilization
Image of Charles Fourier
We must, then, apply the principle of Doubt to Civilization; we must doubt its necessity, its excellence, and its permanence.
- Charles Fourier
Collection: Civilization
Image of David "Doc" Searls
The Net is the new underlying infrastructure for civilization itself.
- David "Doc" Searls
Collection: Civilization
Image of Jean Renoir
The foundation of all civilization is loitering.
- Jean Renoir
Collection: Civilization
Image of Ellen Lupton
Are some free fonts a gift to humanity rather than a blight on typographic civilization ?
- Ellen Lupton
Collection: Civilization
Image of Jules Amedee Barbey d'Aurevilly
The crimes of extreme civilization are probably worse than those of extreme barbarism, because of their refinement, the corruption they presuppose, and their superior degree of intellectuality.
- Jules Amedee Barbey d'Aurevilly
Collection: Civilization
Image of Mark E. Petersen
To us the family is the cornerstone of civilization and must ever be. It is the foundation of proper human relationships.
- Mark E. Petersen
Collection: Civilization
Image of Benjamin Hooks
The most enduring contributions made to civilization have not been made by brawn, they have been made by brain.
- Benjamin Hooks
Collection: Civilization
Image of Karel Capek
The sole perfection which modern civilization attains is a mechanical one; machines are splendid and flawless, but the life which serves them or is served by them, is neither superb nor brilliant, nor more perfect nor more graceful; nor is the work of the machines perfect; only they, the machines, are like gods.
- Karel Capek
Collection: Civilization
Image of Jacob Needleman
When thought races ahead of Being, a civilization is racing towards destruction.
- Jacob Needleman
Collection: Civilization
Image of Denis Hayes
When civilization stands at the edge of a cliff, a step forward doesn't make much sense.
- Denis Hayes
Collection: Civilization
Image of William Harvey
Civilization is only a series of victories against nature.
- William Harvey
Collection: Civilization
Image of August Bebel
Christianity is the enemy of liberty and civilization. It has kept mankind in slavery and oppression. The Church and the State have always fraternally united to exploit the people.
- August Bebel
Collection: Civilization
Image of Bill Mauldin
Certainly none of the advances made in civilization has been due to counterrevolutionaries and advocates of the status quo.
- Bill Mauldin
Collection: Civilization
Image of Jose Arguelles
Everything in modern civilization is based on this concept of time which is not really valid.
- Jose Arguelles
Collection: Civilization
Image of Gro Harlem Brundtland
In the face of an absolutely unprecedented emergency, society has no choice but to take dramatic action to avert a collapse of civilization. Either we will change our ways and build an entirely new kind of global society, or they will be changed for us.
- Gro Harlem Brundtland
Collection: Civilization
Image of Paul Raskin
The planetary phase of history has begun, but the future shape of global society remains profoundly uncertain. Though perhaps improbable, a shift toward a planetary civilization of enriched lives, human solidarity, and environmental sustainability is still possible.
- Paul Raskin
Collection: Civilization
Image of Gerard K. O'Neill
Is a planetary surface the right place for an expanding technological civilization?
- Gerard K. O'Neill
Collection: Civilization
Image of Helen Suzman
[To the South African parliament:] I do not know why we equate - and with the examples before us - a white skin with civilization.
- Helen Suzman
Collection: Civilization
Image of Julius Nyerere
Having come into contact with a civilization which has over-emphasized the freedom of the individual, we are in fact faced with one of the big problems of Africa in the modern world. Our problem is just this: how to get the benefits of European society - benefits that have been brought about by an organization based upon the individual - and yet retain African's own structure of society in which the individual is a member of a kind of fellowship.
- Julius Nyerere
Collection: Civilization
Image of Clifford Stoll
If we built houses the way we build software, the first woodpecker to come along would destroy civilization.
- Clifford Stoll
Collection: Civilization
Image of Chris Kluwe
Every single human civilization has failed over time, and my belief is that it's due to a lack of rational empathy, of understanding that if you don't have equality in your society, the conflicts you breed (whether internally or externally) will eventually cause its collapse.
- Chris Kluwe
Collection: Civilization
Image of Phillip Adams
Marx was wrong. Religion is not the opiate of the people. Opium suggests something soporific, numbing, dulling. Too often religion has been an aphrodisiac for horror, a Benzedrine for bestiality. At its best it has lifted spirits and raised spires. At its worst it has turned entire civilizations into cemeteries.
- Phillip Adams
Collection: Civilization