Civilization Quotes - Page 26

• Civilization is perhaps approaching one of those long winters that overtake it from time to time. Romantic Christendom - picturesque, passionate, unhappy episode - may be coming to an end. Such a catastrophe would be no reason for despair.

  George Santayana

  Winter, Long, Despair

  George Santayana (1937). “The Works of George Santayana: Character and opinion in the United States. The genteel tradition at bay. Dewey's naturalistic metaphysics. Philosophical heresy”

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• They can say that abortion is alright. They can vote to sustain gay marriage. And that will take western civilization, indeed other nations because people look to our country as one nation as under God and whenever we legislate sin and we say abortion is permissible and we say gay unions are permissible, then average citizens who are not Christians, because they don't know better, we are leading them astray and it's wrong.

  Katherine Harris

  Christian, Country, Gay

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• If we don't change, if the egoic consciousness continues, I don't believe that humanity as a species can survive, or at least human civilization can survive, for another hundred years.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Believe, Years, Humanity

  Source: rayhemachandra.com

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• Clint Eastwood said, the only things America has contributed to civilization are the western and jazz. And I don't think westerns are bad, but lots of people make great cinema. But jazz is right there.

  Robert Wyatt

  Thinking, America, People

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• The developing world can just do things that are extensive or horizontal, that basically copy. The developed world needs to do things that are intensive or vertical, where we take our civilization to the next level.

  Peter Thiel

  Needs, Next Level, World

  Interview with Victoria Brown, bigthink.com. November 15, 2010.

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• I am much afraid that we shall have very greatly hastened the decline and ruin of the New World by our contagion, and that we willhave sold it our opinions and our arts very dear.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Art, America, World

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• This is one of the stout-hearted old warriors: he is angry with civilization because he supposes that its aim is to make all goodthings--honors, treasures, beautiful women--accessible even to cowards.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Beautiful, Courage, Warrior

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• To travel is to discover that everybody is wrong. The philosophies, the civilizations which seem, at a distance, so superior to those current at home, all prove on a close inspection to be in their own way just as hopelessly imperfect.

  Aldous Huxley

  Philosophy, Distance, Home

  Aldous Huxley (2000). “Complete Essays: 1926-1929”, Ivan R Dee

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• Women's fight for equal rights is essentially a humanist and peaceful struggle for true democracy, and a higher form of civilization.

  Leyla Zana

  Struggle, Fighting, Rights

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• For in a civilization which has lost the meaning of life, the most important thing a Christian can do is to live, and life, understood from the point of view of faith, has an extraordinary explosive force.

  Jacques Ellul

  Christian, Prayer, Views

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• Human beings do not carry civilization in their genes. All that we do carry in our genes are certain capacities- the capacity to learn to walk upright, to use our brains, to speak, to relate to our fellow men, to construct and use tools, to explore the universe, and to express that exploration in religion, in art, in science, in philosophy.

  Margaret Mead

  Art, Philosophy, Men

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• Scientology is the science of knowing how to know answers. It is a wisdom in the tradition of ten thousand years of search in Asia and Western civilization. It is the Science of Human Affairs which treats the livingness and beingness of Man and demonstrates to him a pathway to greater freedom.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Men, Knowing, Years

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• Civilization means, above all, an unwillingness to inflict unnecessary pain ... those of us who heedlessly accept the commands of authority cannot yet claim to be civilized men.

  Harold Laski

  Pain, Mean, Men

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• Is there any man here or any woman, let me say is there any child here, who does not know that the seed of war in the modern world is industrial and commercial rivalry?

  Woodrow Wilson

  Children, War, Men

  "A Day of Dedication".

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• As civilization advances, the sense of wonder declines. Such decline is an alarming symptom of our state of mind. Mankind will not perish for want of information; but only for want of appreciation.

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Appreciation, Mind, Want

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (1976). “God in Search of Man: A Philosophy of Judaism”, p.46, Macmillan

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• When we send our children to school, they learn nothing about us other than we used to be cotton pickers. Why, your grandfather was Nat Turner; your grandfather was Toussaint L'Ouverture; your grandfather was Hannibal. It was your grandfather's hands who forged civilization and it was your grandmother's hands who rocked the cradle of civilization. But the textbooks tell our children nothing.

  Malcolm X

  Children, School, Grandmother

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• Champagne is the wine of civilization and the oil of government.

  Winston Churchill

  Wine, Government, Oil

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• Give me a Wildness whose glance no civilization can endure.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Giving, Glances, Endure

  Henry David Thoreau, David Gross (2007). “The Price of Freedom: Political Philosophy from Thoreau's Journals”, p.48, David M Gross

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• Our community of rebels, of humble truth seekers, wants to turn our culture around. We don't despise our country. We don't desire failure. We desire light, a beacon to show the world that our wealth need not show the way to more rapid destruction, but can be leveraged to heal more acres, more backyards, more communities faster than any civilization on the right path has ever done it.

  Joel Salatin

  Country, Humble, Light

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• Almighty God: Our sons, pride of our Nation, this day have set upon a mighty endeavor, a struggle to preserve our Republic, our religion, and our civilization, and to set free a suffering humanity.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Struggle, Pride, Son

  Franklin D. Roosevelt (1995). “The Essential Franklin Delano Roosevelt”, Gramercy

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• When I go biking, I am mentally far far away from civilization. The world is breaking someone else's heart.

  Diane Ackerman

  Heart, World, Far Away

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• The measure of any great civilization is its cities and a measure of a city's greatness is to be found in the quality of its public spaces, its parks and squares.

  John Ruskin

  Greatness, Squares, Cities

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• But it is obvious that our fathers, whose efforts have planted these great and prosperous cities along the once lonely trails of our own broad land, received all the fundamentals of civilization as a heritage from their European ancestors.

  James Henry Breasted

  Lonely, Father, Land

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• With the emergence of civilization, the rate of change shifted from hundreds of thousands of years to millennia. With the emergence of science as a way of knowing the universe, the rate of change shifted to centuries.

  William Irwin Thompson

  Change, Years, Knowing

  William Irwin Thompson (2015). “Self and Society: Studies in the Evolution of Cutlture, Second Enlarged Edition”, p.95, Andrews UK Limited

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• Arab civilization has collapsed. It won’t recover in my lifetime.

  Hisham Melhem

  Lifetime

  Twitter post from Sep 19, 2014

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