Civilization Quotes - Page 12

• Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Technology, Thinking, Numbers

  An Introduction to Mathematics ch. 5 (1911)

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• Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Life, Mean, Men

  Frank Lloyd Wright, Edgar Kaufmann, Ben Raeburn (1960). “Frank Lloyd Wright: writings and buildings”

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• The true test of civilization is not the census, nor the size of cities, nor the crops - no, but the kind of man the country turns out.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Country, Character, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.16, Harvard University Press

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• We must remember that any oppression, any injustice, any hatred, is a wedge designed to attack our civilization.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Justice, Diversity, Hatred

  Greeting to the American Committee for Protection of Foreign-born, January 9, 1940.

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• The most powerful force in the universe is gossip.

  Dave Barry

  Powerful, Pay The Price, Gossip

  Dave Barry (1998). “Dave Barry Turns 50”, Crown

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• If civilization has risen from the Stone Age, it can rise again from the Wastepaper Age.

  Jacques Barzun

  Future, Vision, Environmental

  Jacques Barzun (1959). “The House of Intellect”

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• Civilization will not attain to its perfection until the last stone from the last church falls on the last priest.

  Emile Zola

  Atheist, Fall, Perfection

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• Without winners, there wouldn't even be any civilization.

  Woody Hayes

  Winner

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• To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level.

  Bertrand Russell

  People, Relaxation, Levels

  Conquest of Happiness (1930) ch. 14

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• There is no salvation for us but to adopt Civilization and lift ourselves down to its level.

  Mark Twain

  Levels, Salvation, Lifts

  Mark Twain (1994). “Tales, Speeches, Essays, and Sketches”, p.262, Penguin

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• Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.

  Ayn Rand

  Inspirational, Men, Progress Of Society

  The Fountainhead pt. 4, ch. 18 (1943)

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• It's the Law of God that gave the stability to Christian civilization.

  Randall Terry

  Christian, Law, Stability

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• Courtesy is a silver lining around the dark clouds of civilization; it is the best part of refinement and in many ways, an art of heroic beauty in the vast gallery of man's cruelty and baseness.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Art, Dark, Men

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• Ultimately, there is no compromise. Westerners will either retain their civilization, including the right to insult and blaspheme, or not.

  Daniel Pipes

  Comeback, Insult, Compromise

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• And we owe science to the combined energies of individual men of genius, rather than to any tendency to progress inherent in civilization.

  Chauncey Wright

  Men, Progress, Energy

  Chauncey Wright (2003). “Philosphical Discussions”, p.51, A&C Black

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• A lot of people thought of me as a threat to Western civilization.

  John Milius

  People, Threat, Western

  Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. May 7, 2003.

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• In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is stoned to death.

  Joan D. Vinge

  Men, Land, Sight

  Joan D. Vinge (2002). “Catspaw”, p.82, Macmillan

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• Evolution made civilization steward of this planet. A hundred thousand years later, the steward stood before evolution not helper but destroyer, not healer but parasite. So evolution withdrew its gift, passed civilization by, rescued the planet from intelligence and handed it to love.

  Richard Bach

  Love, Years, Intelligence

  "One". Book by Richard Bach, 1988.

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• K is for "Kenghis Khan"; He was a very nice person. History has no record of him. There is a moral in that, somewhere.

  Harlan Ellison

  Nice, History, Records

  Harlan Ellison (2014). “Strange Wine: Stories”, p.102, Open Road Media

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• We will never be an advanced civilization as long as rain showers can delay the launching of a space rocket.

  George Carlin

  Rain, Space, Long

  George Carlin (2002). “Napalm & Silly Putty”, Hyperion

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• Our idea of what constitutes social good has advanced with the procession of the ages, from those desperate times when just to keep body and soul together was an achievement, to the great present when "good" includes an agreeable, stable civilization accessible to all, the opportunity of each to develop his particular genius and the privilege of mutual usefulness.

  Frances Perkins

  Opportunity, Ideas, Achievement

  Frances Perkins (1934). “People at work”

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• The city is the nerve center of our civilization. It is also the storm center.

  Josiah Strong

  Cities, Storm, Nerves

  Josiah Strong (1963). “Our Country”

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• AIDS is a global problem and there should be a global solution found by the entire international community. It is really scary to see and imagine our world fall into pieces because we refuse to share and put in the common vestiges of our civilizations.

  Sarah Polley

  Fall, Our World, Community

  Interview with Roxanna Bina, www.ifqmag.com.

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• Sunday is the core of our civilization, dedicated to thought and reverence.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Sunday, Sabbath, Dedicated

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2734, Delphi Classics

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• You know, our sense of individuality is just the number one target of civilization.

  Alan Rudolph

  Numbers, Individuality, Target

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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