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Nations, like individuals, live and die; but civilization cannot die.Collection: Civilization
The present dominant values (xenophilia, cosmopolitanism, narcissistic individualism, humanitarianism, bourgeois economism, hedonism, homophilia, permissivenes, etc.) are actually anti-values - values of devirilising weakness, since they deplete a civilization's vital energies and weaken its defensive or affirmative capacities.Collection: Civilization
It is possible to point to hundreds, thousands, perhaps even millions of imaginative, courageous programs to reduce, recycle, and reuse - yet the overall trajectory of industrial civilization remains relatively unchanged.Collection: Civilization
The enemies of American civilization-- for such are the enemies of slavery-- seem to be more on the alert than its friends.Collection: Civilization
We are so clothed in rationalization and dissemblance that we can recognize but dimly the deep primal impulses that motivate us.Collection: Civilization
What basic psychological distortion can be found in every civilization of which we know anything? The only psychological force capable of producing these perversions is morality - the concept of right and wrong. The re-interpretation and eventual eradication of the concept of right and wrong are the belated objectives of nearly all of psychotherapy.Collection: Civilization
When blacks are left entirely to their own devices, Western civilization - any kind of civilization - disappears.Collection: Civilization
Historical capitalism is a materialist civilization.Collection: Civilization
The civil liberty of every mode of worship, and full power given to all of openly and publicly manifesting their opinions and their ideas conduce more easily to corrupt the morals and minds of the people... The Roman Pontiff cannot and ought not to reconcile himself or agree with, progress, liberalism and modern civilization.Collection: Civilization
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.Collection: Civilization
You will find liberals always rooting for savages against civilization.Collection: Civilization
EROEI [energy returned on energy invested, or net energy] is to a civilization what gross profit is to a business, the source of the surplus that supports the entire enterprise.Collection: Civilization
The possibility of reduced-time interstellar travel either by advanced extraterrestrial civilizations at present or ourselves in the future, is not fundamentally constrained by physical principles.Collection: Civilization
... All questions concerning the rise of Christianity are one: How was it done? How did a tiny and obscure messianic movement from the edge of the Roman Empire dislodge classical paganism and become the dominant faith of Western civilization? Although this is the only question, it requires many answers - no one thing led to the triumph of Christianity.Collection: Civilization
Universities are meant to pass the torch of civilization.Collection: Civilization
One mind awake can become stronger than a thousand zombies sleepwalking in a dying civilization.Collection: Civilization
We have to learn to deal with this situation and prepare for contact. Studying the behavior pattern of the phenomenon, I came to the conclusion that they are neither friend nor foe, but study our planet and civilization from a mainly scientific perspective. They are as curious to learn more about us, as we would love to study other human and humanoid civilizations.Collection: Civilization
The test of civilization is the estimate of woman.Collection: Civilization
Look, I am a Palestinian elected representative from Jericho. If a Palestinian wants to sell his fruit anywhere in the West Bank, he goes to the Israeli civil administration. If a Palestinian sick person wants to leave a hospital, he goes through the Israeli civil administration. Nobody can leave or enter my constituency without Israeli permission. Israel is, in effect, resuming the occupation.Collection: Civilization
The civilization of the West, which was brilliant by virtue of its scientific perfection for a long time, and which subjugated the whole world with the products of this science to its states and nations, is now bankrupt and in decline.Collection: Civilization
If we want our civilization to survive, we have to watch for the extremes. We have to reclaim our morality, both individually and as the society. To protect ourselves from extremisms, we have to maintain moderation.Collection: Civilization
What can we expect from nations still less advanced in civilization than the Greeks?Collection: Civilization
An important aspect of the Eurasian worldview is an absolute denial of Western civilization. In the opinion of the Eurasians, the West with its ideology of liberalism is an absolute evil.Collection: Civilization
Lemon Tree is well worth seeing as a first-class artistic achievement bridging two civilizations.Collection: Civilization
Civilization is the process in which one gradually increases the number of people included in the term 'we' or 'us' and at the same time decreases those labeled 'you' or 'them' until that category has no one left in it.Collection: Civilization
In the very end, civilizations perish because they listen to their politicians and not to their poets.Collection: Civilization
The city has become a serious menace to our civilization It has a peculiar attraction for the immigrant.Collection: Civilization
The city is the nerve center of our civilization. It is also the storm center.Collection: Civilization
You cannot force growth of human life and civilization, any more than you can force these slow-growing trees. That is the economy of Almighty God, that all good growth is slow growth.Collection: Civilization
Big bang cosmology is probably as widely believed as has been any theory of the universe in the history of Western civilization. It rests, however, on many untested, and in some cases untestable, assumptions. Indeed, big bang cosmology has become a bandwagon of thought that reflects faith as much as objective truth.Collection: Civilization
No civilization, no matter how mighty it may appear to itself, is indestructible.Collection: Civilization
But for me, dinner at a fine restaurant was the ultimate luxury. It was the very height of civilization. For what was civilization but the intellect's ascendancy out of the doldrums of necessity (shelter, sustenance and survival) into the ether of the finely superfluous (poetry, handbags and haute cuisine)? So removed from daily life was the whole experience that when all was rotten to the core, a fine dinner could revive the spirits. If and when I had twenty dollars left to my name, I was going to invest it right here in an elegant hour that couldn't be hocked.Collection: Civilization
If civilization is in danger today... it will do so with the enthusiastic assistance of credulous people. They seem to me more dangerous than the most brazen leaders, because everything is done with their cooperation.Collection: Civilization
Throughout its history, Islam has borrowed and adapted from other civilizations, both ancient and modern.Collection: Civilization
A warming of this magnitude would risk the end of civilization as we know it by the end of this century.Collection: Civilization
The soul of a civilization is its religion, and it dies with its faith.Collection: Civilization
From barbarism to civilization requires a century; from civilization to barbarism needs but a day.Collection: Civilization
So I should say that civilizations begin with religion and stoicism: they end with scepticism and unbelief, and the undisciplined pursuit of individual pleasure. A civilization is born stoic and dies epicurean.Collection: Civilization
We argue with our biology, and the result of that argument is civilization.Collection: Civilization
The charms of seclusion are seldom combined with the conveniences of civilization.Collection: Civilization
Far from being the smartest possible biological species, we are probably better thought of as the stupidest possible biological species capable of starting a technological civilization - a niche we filled because we got there first, not because we are in any sense optimally adapted to it.Collection: Civilization
Civilization has always been a bust.Collection: Civilization
It is a luxury to do something that serves no practical purpose: the luxury of civilization.Collection: Civilization
No ancient story, not even Homer's Iliad or Odyssey, has remained as popular through the course of time. The story of Rama appears as old as civilization and has a fresh appeal for every generation.Collection: Civilization
Inarticulate wretches have been behind most of the major advances in civilization. If Vincent Van Gogh had been able to get on with his neighbours, then he might have become an excellent painter-decorator, and received a big turn out at his funeral, and that would be that. But the genes wouldn't let him.Collection: Civilization
Ive managed to dodge the curse. Not all my family have. Of course, music helped me - music is all about civilization, about something worthwhile. Its all about ideas.Collection: Civilization
We live in a world of crisis, of challenge, and ... it's in our galleries that we can unpack the civilizations that we're seeing the current manifestations of.Collection: Civilization
No more astounding relic of the subjection of women survives in western civilization than the status of the prostitute.... In connection with what other illegal vice is the seller alone penalized, and not the buyer?Collection: Civilization