Modern Civilization Quotes

• The human heart as modern civilization has made it is more prone to hatred than to friendship. And it is prone to hatred because it is dissatisfied.

  Bertrand Russell

  Heart, Civilization, Hatred

  Bertrand Russell (2015). “The Conquest of Happiness”, p.53, Lulu Press, Inc

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• If modern civilization man had to kill the animals he eats, the number of vegetarians would rise astronomically.

  Christian Morgenstern

  Animal, Carpe Diem, Men

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• It is so stupid of modern civilization to have given up believing in the devil when he is the only explanation of it.

  Ronald Knox

  Stupid, Believe, Civilization

  Let Dons Delight ch. 8 (1939)

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• If the Negro is not careful he will drink in all the poison of modern civilization and die from the effects of it.

  Marcus Garvey

  Civilization, Poison, Drink

  Marcus Garvey, Amy Jacques Garvey (1923). “The Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey, Or, Africa for the Africans”, p.13, The Majority Press

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• By his very success in inventing labor-saving devices, modern man has manufactured an abyss of boredom that only the privileged classes in earlier civilizations have ever fathomed.

  Lewis Mumford

  Success, Science, Men

  "The Conduct Of Life". Book by Lewis Mumford, 1951.

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• The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Gun, Civilization, Religion

  Critical and Miscellaneous Essays "The State of German Literature" (1838)

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• Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled.

  Barbara Tuchman

  Book, Civilization, Literature History

  Barbara Wertheim Tuchman, Center for the Book, Authors' League of America (1980). “The Book: A Lecture Sponsored by the Center for the Book in the Library of Congress and the Authors' League of America, Presented at the Library of Congress October 17, 1979”, Library of Congress

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• A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Motivational, Spiritual, Men

  BiographyPersonal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Speed is one of the great curses of modern civilization, obsession with speed leads to quantitative approach; we come to believe that more is better. This is very materialistic, we have to realize that it is the quality of life, quality of relationships, quality of food, medicine, education and everything else which matters.

  Satish Kumar

  Believe, Civilization, Medicine

  Interview with Frank Lipman, www.drfranklipman.com. April 14, 2009.

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• A great purposelessness has descended upon modern civilizations. People at large have lost any sense of the meaning and purpose of life; and without an understanding of our own purpose, there can be no true commitment. Whether that commitment is to marriage, family, study, work, God, relationships, or the simple resolutions of our lives, it will be almost impossible to fulfill without a clear and practical understanding of our purpose. Commitment and purpose go hand in hand.

  Matthew Kelly

  Commitment, Simple, Hands

  Matthew Kelly (2015). “The Rhythm of Life: Living Everyday With Passion and Purpose”, p.27, BookBaby

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• It is necessary for us to explain the involuntary repugnance we possess for the nature and personality of the Jews. The Jews have never produced a true poet. Heinrich Heine reached the point where he duped himself into a poet, and was rewarded by his versified lies being set to music by our own composers. He was the conscience of Judaism, just as Judaism is the evil conscience of our modern civilization.

  Richard Wagner

  Lying, Civilization, Evil

  "'Das Judenthum in der Musik' ('Judaism in Music')". Essay by Richard Wagner, 1850.

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• Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.

  Barbara Tuchman

  Stupid, Book, Reading

  Barbara Wertheim Tuchman, Center for the Book, Authors' League of America (1980). “The Book: A Lecture Sponsored by the Center for the Book in the Library of Congress and the Authors' League of America, Presented at the Library of Congress October 17, 1979”, Library of Congress

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• Machinery is the chief symbol of modern civilization; it represents a great sin.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Civilization, Machines, Sin

  Mahatma Gandhi (2014). “Indian Home Rule”, p.87, The Floating Press

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• Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Book, Literature History, Civilization

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• Modern civilization is a product of an energy binge. Binges often end in hangovers.

  Alfred W. Crosby

  Hangover, Civilization, Energy

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• In one of my latest conversations with Darwin he expressed himself very gloomily on the future of humanity, on the ground that in our modern civilization natural selection had no play, and the fittest did not survive. Those who succeed in the race for wealth are by no means the best or the most intelligent, and it is notorious that our population is more largely renewed in each generation from the lower than from the middle and upper classes.

  Alfred Russel Wallace

  Mean, Intelligent, Race

  Alfred Russel Wallace (1991). “Alfred Russel Wallace: An Anthology of His Shorter Writings”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Our youth must be steadfast and take advantage of the benefits of modern civilization. Do not fall prey to idleness for it shall be a curse to you and to succeeding generations. You must set yourselves us as examples of determination and hard work. Plan your time and use both your physical and mental powers purposefully and productively.

  Haile Selassie

  Determination, Fall, Hard Work

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• A modern civilization is only possible when it is accepted that singular beings exist and express themselves freely.

  Tahar Ben Jelloun

  Civilization, Modern, Accepted

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• I believe very firmly that indigenous populations had a really good, intuitive understanding of why we're here. And we're trying to gain that same understanding through psychology and intellect in modern civilization.

  Serj Tankian

  Believe, Civilization, Psychology

  "Serj Tankian: Alternative Rock’s Political Poet". Interview with Gary Moskowitz, www.motherjones.com. November 9, 2007.

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• If I were starting life over again, I am inclined to think that I would go into the advertising business in preference to almost any other. The general raising of the standards of modern civilization among all groups of people during the past half ce

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Thinking, Past, Civilization

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• Hate-on-the-highway is an institution occupying a high place in our modern civilization....The godawful glares that drivers exchange as they pass each other, the mutual hatred between motorist and pedestrian, these manifestations seem to constitute the ultimate in righteous wrath.

  H. Allen Smith

  Hate, Wrath, Civilization

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• Modern civilization has no understanding of sacred matters. Everything is backwards.

  Thomas Yellowtail

  Civilization, Understanding, Sacred

  Thomas Yellowtail, Michael Oren Fitzgerald (1994). “Yellowtail, Crow Medicine Man and Sun Dance Chief: An Autobiography”, p.188, University of Oklahoma Press

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• The fact the enemies of God must face is that modern civilization has conquered the world, but in doing so has lost its soul. And in losing its soul it will lose the very world it gained. Even our own so-called Liberal culture in these United States which has tried to avoid complete secularization by leaving little zones of individual freedom is in danger of forgetting that these zones were preserved only because religion was in their soul. And as religion fades so will freedom, for only where the spirit of God is, is there liberty.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Civilization, Leaving, Soul

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• While the comforts of modern civilization and technological success or economic success seem at the moment quite fulfilling, I can assure you that all of these things are transitory and will fall away.

  Frederick Lenz

  Fall, Buddhism, Civilization

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• Rome is the one great spiritual organisation which is able to resist and must, as a matter of life and death, the progress of science and modern civilization

  Thomas Huxley

  Spiritual, Rome, Civilization

  Thomas Henry Huxley (1872). “Lay Sermons, Addresses, and Reviews”, p.61

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