Civilization Quotes - Page 31

• The spirit of man is more important than mere physical strength, and the spiritual fiber of a nation than its wealth. The Bible is endorsed by the ages. Our civilization is built upon its words. In no other book is there such a collection of inspired wisdom, reality, and hope.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Spiritual, Book, Reality

  97 Copy quote

• Atlantis was a highly evolved civilization where the sciences and arts were far more advanced than one might guess. Atlantis was technologically advanced in genetic engineering, computer science, inter-dimensional physics, and artistically developed with electronic music and crystal art forms.

  Frederick Lenz

  Art, Engineering, Might

  58 Copy quote

• 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

  52 Copy quote

• 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

  52 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  53 Copy quote

• 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

  5 Copy quote

• 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

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Civilization itself is housed in the human being.

  Nayantara Sahgal

  Humans, Human Beings

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

  14 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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.

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  4 Copy quote

• 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.

  30 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  24 Copy quote

• 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

  12 Copy quote

  Show source

• People here always said to me, Why would you leave civilization to go to a place like Fiji? Fiji is a far more civilized place than California or New York City.

  Raymond Burr

  New York, Cities, California

  4 Copy quote

• No civilization has survived the ongoing destruction of its natural support systems. Nor will ours.

  Lester R. Brown

  Support Systems, Growth, Ongoing

  28 Copy quote

• Humankind has suddenly entered into a brand new relationship with our planet. Unless we quickly and profoundly change the course of our civilization, we face an immediate and grave danger of destroying the worldwide ecological system that sustains life as we know it.

  Al Gore

  New Relationship, Faces, Global Warming

  4 Copy quote

• What but education has advanced us beyond the condition of our indigenous neighbors? And what chains them to their present state of barbarism and wretchedness but a bigoted veneration for the supposed superlative wisdom of their fathers and the preposterous idea that they are to look backward for better things and not forward, longing, as it should seem, to return to the days of eating acorns and roots rather than indulge in the degeneracies of civilization?

  Thomas Jefferson

  Father, Ideas, Indulge In

  Thomas Jefferson (1976). “Thomas Jefferson, revolutionary philosopher: a selection of writings”, Barron's Educational Series

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The market system is the basis of our civilization. Its only alternative is the Führer principle.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Principles, Alternatives, Bases

  6 Copy quote

• Barring a miracle, the family that has existed since antiquity will likely crumble, presaging the fall of Western civilization itself. This is a time for concerted prayer, divine wisdom and greater courage than we have ever been called upon to exercise.

  James Dobson

  Prayer, Fall, Exercise

  23 Copy quote

• At last, in the gray dawn of Civilization the fire in the Soul dies down. The dwindling powers rise to one more, half-successful, effort of creation, and produce the Classicism that is common to all dying Cultures. The soul thinks once again, and in Romanticism looks back piteously to its childhood; then finally, weary, reluctant, cold, it loses its desire to be, and, as in Imperial Rome, wishes itself out of the overlong daylight and back in the darkness of protomysticism in the womb of the mother in the grave.

  Oswald Spengler

  Mother, Successful, Thinking

  Oswald Spengler (1991). “The Decline of the West”, p.75, Oxford University Press, USA

  79 Copy quote

  Show source

• Fortunately, at the last hour, there were always a few soldiers to save Civilization.

  Oswald Spengler

  Soldier, Lasts, Hours

  101 Copy quote

• If kissing is man's greatest invention, then fermentation and patriarchy compete with the domestication of animals for the distinction of being man's worst folly, and no doubt the three combined long ago, the one growing out of the others, to foster civilization and lead Western humanity to its present state of decline.

  Tom Robbins

  Kissing, Men, Animal

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Even Cowgirls Get the Blues”, p.285, Bantam

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Had Greek civilization never existed ... we would never have become fully conscious.

  W. H. Auden

  Greek, Conscious, Greek Civilization

  4 Copy quote