Civilization Quotes - Page 23

• There were many stages to the Atlantean civilization. During the later stages, scientists became involved with advanced particle physics. In particular they were interested in reverse gravity fields.

  Frederick Lenz

  Atlantis, Fields, Physics

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• In their meditations, the high priests and priestesses of Atlantis had seen that the Atlantean civilization was going to end cataclysmically.

  Frederick Lenz

  Meditation, Atlantis, Ancient

  Frederick Lenz (1994). “Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap”, Interglobal Seminars

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• They wanted to preserve and protect the mystical knowledge gained from their meditation practices and pass it on to future civilizations they clairvoyantly saw were going to be born after the destruction of Atlantis

  Frederick Lenz

  Meditation Practice, Atlantis, Saws

  Frederick Lenz (1994). “Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap”, Interglobal Seminars

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• It was their intention to start twelve new civilizations similar to Atlantis in these locations.

  Frederick Lenz

  Location, Twelve, Atlantis

  Frederick Lenz (1994). “Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap”, Interglobal Seminars

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• By the time the Egyptian civilization had begun to flourish, the earth's aura had already become so dense it was impossible to discover the secret meditation techniques.

  Frederick Lenz

  Egyptian Civilization, Meditation, Secret

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• As a great democratic society, we have a special responsibility to the arts. For art is the great democrat, calling forth creative genius from every sector of society, disregarding race or religion or wealth or color. What freedom alone can bring is the liberation of the human mind and a spirit which finds its greatest flowering in the free society. I see of little more importance to the future of our country and our civilization than the full recognition of the place of the artist.

  John F. Kennedy

  Music, Country, Art

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• Whatever of true glory has been won by any nation of the earth; whatever great advance his been made by any nation in that which constitutes a high Christian civilization, has been always at the cost of sacrifice; has cost the price marked upon it in God's inventory of national good.

  J. G. Holland

  Christian, Sacrifice, Cost

  J. G. HOLLAND (1866). “PLAIN TALKS ON FAMILIAR SUBJECTS”, p.263

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• There can be no doubt that our descendants will learn to exploit the energy of fusion for peaceful purposes even before its use becomes necessary for the preservation of human civilization.

  Lev Artsimovich

  Peaceful, Doubt, Fusion

  "Conference proceedings, Volume 1, Nuclear fusion. International Atomic Energy Agency". Artsimovich Memorial Session of the Seventh International Conference on Plasma Physics and Controlled Nuclear Fusion Research, 1978.

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• The civilization of any country may always be measured by the degree of equality between men and women; and society will never come truly into order until there is perfect equality and copartnership between them in every department of human life.

  Lydia M. Child

  Country, Equality, Men

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• Civilization is a perishable commodity.

  Helen Clark MacInnes

  Commodity

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• Civilization itself is housed in the human being.

  Nayantara Sahgal

  Humans, Human Beings

  Nayantara Sahgal (1963). “From fear set free”

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• For some time there was a widely held notion (zealously fostered by the daily press) to the effect that the 'thinking ocean' of Solaris was a gigantic brain, prodigiously well-developed and several million years in advance of our own civilization, a sort of 'cosmic yogi', a sage, a symbol of omniscience, which had long ago understood the vanity of all action and for this reason had retreated into an unbreakable silence.

  Stanislaw Lem

  Ocean, Thinking, Vanity

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• I wanted to get the most broad foundation for a lifelong education that I could find, and that was studying Latin and the classics. Meaning Roman and Greek history and philosophy and ancient civilizations.

  Tim Blake Nelson

  Philosophy, Latin, Greek

  "O Brother Who Art Thou? A Q&A With Actor/Writer/Director Tim Blake Nelson". Interview with Jonathan Valania, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 03, 2013.

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• But that so many scholars are barbarians does not much matter so long as a few of them are ready to help with their specialized knowledge the few independent thinkers, that is to say the poets, who try to to keep civilization alive.

  Robert Graves

  Independent, Long, Trying

  Robert Graves (2011). “The White Goddess”, p.361, Faber & Faber

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• It is a characteristic of any decaying civilization that the great masses of the people are unconscious of the tragedy. Humanity in a crisis is generally insensitive to the gravity of the times in which it lives. Men do not want to believe their own times are wicked, partly because it involves too much self-accusation and principally because they have no standards outside of themselves by which to measure their times.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Believe, Men, Self

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• Im fairly certain that the seeds of Mel Gibsons extraordinary work The Passion of the Christ were sown long before Islamic fundamentalists delivered their abominable message to America and the entire Judeo-Christian civilization.

  Michael Moriarty

  Christian, Islamic, Passion

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• For four hundred years European civilization has dominated the world - for better or for worse. It is convenient, and flattering, for Americans to assume that this is all over; but it very rash to do so.

  William Pfaff

  Years, World, Four

  "Barbarian Sentiments - How The American Century Ends". Book by William Pfaff, Chapter 2, The Challenge of Europe, p. 21, 1989.

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• The enthronement of Christ over the minds of men is steadily going forward. His kingdom embraces the princes in the realm of mind. It embraces the nations of highest civilization. They are all beneath the cross. It is maintained by simple authority. Other mental monarchs rule by logic; Christ's word is law--it is satisfying to His subjects. His truth in the hands of His disciples, like the bread He broke upon the mountains, is an ample supply for the millions that gather at His table.

  Edward Thomson

  Men, Simple, Hands

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• In its broad sense, civilization means not only comfort in daily necessities but also the refining of knowledge and the cultivation of virtue so as to elevate human life to a higher plane... It refers to the attainment of both material well-being and the elevation of the human spirit, [but] since what produces man's well-being and refinement is knowledge and virtue, civilization ultimately means the progress of man's knowledge and virtue.

  Fukuzawa Yukichi

  Mean, Men, Progress

  "An encouragement of learning". Book by Fukuzawa Yukichi and Obata Tokujirō, 1872-1876.

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• They have an amazing proliferation of TV channels now: The all-cartoon channel, the 24-hour-science fiction channel. Of course, to make room for these they got rid of the Literacy Channel and the What's Left of Civilization Channel.

  Dennis Miller

  Cartoon, Fiction, Rooms

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• Who are we to say what's right for civilizations that were already thousands of years old when our own nation came into being?

  Unita Blackwell

  Years, Imperialism, Nations

  Unita Blackwell, JoAnne Prichard Morris (2006). “Barefootin': Life Lessons from the Road to Freedom”, Crown

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• each generation devises better ways to survive. Civilization may, in one sense, be a tribute to the ingeniousness of some children in outwitting parents.

  Lucy Freeman

  Children, Parent, Survival

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• I think our civilization is minimal enough without underlining it. Sculpture as a created object in space should enrich, not reflect, and should be beautiful. Beauty is its function.

  Barbara Chase-Riboud

  Beautiful, Thinking, Space

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• I do not think that the nerve of the modern child is any too good; how can one expect it, brought up as they are amongst all the horrors of civilization. The 'daring' child who used to be common enough, is seldom met nowadays.

  Muriel Wace

  Children, Thinking, Nerves

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• We seem to be trapped by a civilization that has accelerated many physical aspects of evolution but has forgotten that other vital part of man -- his mind and his psyche.

  Sybil Leek

  Men, Mind, Evolution

  Sybil Leek (1972). “ESP--The magic within you”, Abelard-Schuman Ltd

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