Civilization Quotes - Page 13

• 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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• There are many humorous things in the world; among them, the white man's notion that he is less savage than the other savages.

  Mark Twain

  Humorous, Inspiration, Men

  Mark Twain, Peter Kaminsky (2009). “The Chicago of Europe, and Other Tales of Foreign Travel”, p.170, Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

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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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• 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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• Anglo-Saxon civilization has taught the individual to protect his own rights; American civilization will teach him to respect the rights of others.

  William Jennings Bryan

  Teaching, Rights, Taught

  WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN (1899). “REPUBLIC OR EMPIRE?”

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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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• Thousands of years and many civilizations have defined a marriage as the union between one man and one woman. With few exceptions, those civilizations that did not follow that perished.

  Randy Neugebauer

  Marriage, Men, Years

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• We are like ignorant shepherds living on a site where great civilizations once flourished.

  Allan Bloom

  Ignorant, Shepherds, Site

  Allan Bloom (2008). “Closing of the American Mind”, p.239, Simon and Schuster

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• One man in his time plays many parts.

  William Shakespeare

  Birthday, Character, Men

  'As You Like It' (1599) act 2, sc. 7, l. 139

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• The civilized are those who get more out of life than the uncivilized, and for this we are not likely to be forgiven.

  Cyril Connolly

  Atheism, Literature, Forgiven

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• Every new stroke of civilization has cost the lives of countless brave men, who have fallen defeated by the dragon, in their efforts to win the apples of the Hesperides, or the fleece of gold. Fallen in their efforts to overcome the old, half sordid savagery of the lower stages of creation, and win the next stage.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Winning, Men, Dragons

  D. H. Lawrence (1956). “The Virgin and the Gipsy”

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• The city has become a serious menace to our civilization It has a peculiar attraction for the immigrant.

  Josiah Strong

  Cities, Peculiar, Serious

  Josiah Strong (1963). “Our Country”

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• One... gets an impression that civilization is something which was imposed on a resisting majority by a minority which understood how to obtain possession of the means to power and coercion. It is, of course, natural to assume that these difficulties are not inherent in the nature of civilization itself but are determined by the imperfections of the cultural forms which have so far been developed.

  Sigmund Freud

  Mean, Imperfection, Majority

  Sigmund Freud, James Strachey, Anna Freud, Carrie Lee Rothgeb (1961). “The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud”

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• Our concern is not how to worship in the catacombs but how to remain human in the skyscrapers.

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Worship, Skyscraper, Concern

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (1955). “Insecurity of Freedom”, p.23, Macmillan

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• Civilization is nothing more than the effort to reduce the use of force to the last resort.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Power, Effort, Use

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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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• [T]he progress of civilization corresponds with the spread of general nausea.

  Edgar Saltus

  Progress, Nausea, Spread

  Edgar Saltus (1970). “The Philosophy of Disenchantment”

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• Allen's Law of Civilization: It is better for civilization to be going down the drain than to be coming up it.

  Paul Dickson

  Funny, Humor, Law

  Paul Dickson (2014). “The Official Rules: 5,427 Laws, Principles, and Axioms to Help You Cope with Crises, Deadlines, Bad Luck, Rude Behavior, Red Tape, and Attacks by Inanimate Objects”, p.9, Courier Corporation

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• To be complex does not mean to be fragmented. This is the paradox and the genius of our Canadian civilization.

  Adrienne Clarkson

  Mean, Doe, Genius

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