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Last updated on December 5, 2024.
Our whole civilization rests on the fact that men have always succeeded in beating off the attack of the re-distributors.
Civilization is hideously fragile... there's not much between us and the Horrors underneath, just about a coat of varnish.
We need to shift from an economic to a humanitarian organizing principle for human civilization. And women, en masse, should be saying so.
The essential characteristic of Western civilization that distinguishes it from the arrested and petrified civilizations of the East was and is its concern for freedom from the state.
United States and our allied partners need to wake up. ISIS is at war with us and civilization.
Dining is the privilege of civilization. . . . The nation which knows how to dine has learnt the leading lesson of progress.
Americans' great and secret fear is that America may turn out to be a phenomenon rather than a civilization.
I believe that what we are fighting here is not just a small group of people who have hijacked a religion, but it is a civilization bent on destroying ours.
The true law of the race is progress and development. Whenever civilization pauses in the march of conquest, it is overthrown by the barbarian.
I am well convinced that Aerial Navigation will form a most prominent feature in the progress of civilization.
Perhaps the two most valuable and satisfactory products of American civilization are the librarian on the one hand and the cocktail in the other.
Next to the striking of fire and the discovery of the wheel, the greatest triumph of what we call civilization was the domestication of the human male.
More than any other time in history, the 1990s will be a turning point for human civilization.
Clearly, a civilization that feels guilty for everything it is and does will lack the energy and conviction to defend itself.
Apart from the desire to produce beautiful things, the leading passion of my life has been and is hatred of modern civilization.
In China's thousands of years of civilization, the conflict between humankind and nature has never been as serious as it is today.
Human civilization is not something achieved against nature; it is rather the outcome of the working of the innate qualities of man.
The sole precoccupation of this learned society was the destruction of humanity for philanthropic reasons and the perfection of weapons as instruments of civilization.
Providence has given the United States the duty of extending Christian civilization. We come as ministering angels, not despots.
Every civilization is, among other things, an arrangement for domesticating the passions and setting them to do useful work.
All over the world the wildlife that I write about is in grave danger. It is being exterminated by what we call the progress of civilization.
Civilization runs a greater risk if we maintain our present attitude to religion than if we give it up.
My goal in life is to change the entire social and economic structure of western civilization, to make it a feminist world.
Civilization largely consists in hiding human nature. When the barbarian learns to hide it we account him enlightened.
The civilization of a state should be measured by the amount of suffering it prevents and the degree of happiness it makes possible for its citizens.
In their meditations, the high priests and priestesses of Atlantis had seen that the Atlantean civilization was going to end cataclysmically.
Fain would we remain barbarians, if our claim to civilization were to be based on the gruesome glory of war.
Funding a civilization through advertising is like trying to get nutrition by connecting a tube from one’s anus to one’s mouth.
English civilization rests largely upon tea and cricket, with mighty spurts of enjoyment on Derby Day, and at Newmarket.
People get upset when Baghdad, the "Cradle of Civilization" is burning, or when the Buddhas in Afghanistan are falling. These are real concerns.
War is, we have been forced to admit, even in the face of its huge place in our civilization, an asocial trait.
A riot's unchecked destruction of livelihoods and property is certainly newsworthy, threatening as it does the very possibility of civilization.
The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards.
The culture of a civilization is the art and literature through which it rises to consciousness of itself and defines its vision of the world.
The disastrous feature of our civilization is that it is far more developed materially than spiritually. Its balance is disturbed.
In social affairs, I'm an optimist. I really do believe that our military- industrial civilization will soon collapse.
Iraq is no diversion. It is a place where civilization is taking a decisive stand against chaos and terror, we must not waver.
One could almost phrase the motto of our modern civilization thus: Science is my shepherd; I shall not want.
Our non-co-operation is with the system the English have established in India, with the material civilization and its attendant greed and exploitation of the weak.
In an automobile civilization, which was one of constant motion and activity, there was almost no time to think; in a television one, there is small desire.
Western civilization is, no doubt, predominantly on the side of secular relativism. That is not true in the Islamic world, where faith dominates.
Technique has taken over the whole of civilization. Death, procreation, birth all submit to technical efficiency and systemization.
Over-civilization and barbarism are within an inch of each other. And a mark of both is the power of medicine-men.
If we built houses the way we build software, the first woodpecker to come along would destroy civilization.
Learning is nothing without cultivated manners, but when the two are combined in a woman, you have one of the most exquisite products of civilization.
Induction makes you feel guilty for getting something out of nothing, and it is artificial, but it is one of the greatest ideas of civilization.
Accommodation to change, the thoughtful pursuit of alternative futures are keys to the survival of civilization and perhaps of the human species.
Freedom!- is the fatuous jingle of our civilization, but only those deprived of it have the barest inkling re: what the stuff actually is.
Good God, if our civilization were to sober up for a couple of days it'd die of remorse on the third.
The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards
It seems to me far more likely that an advanced civilization would communicate inter dimensionally and telepathically.
A civilization is complicated, in the first place, because it is dynamic; that is, it is constantly changing in the passage of time, until it has perished.
It's called civilization. Women invented it, and every time you men blow it all to bits, we just invent it again.
The greatest task before civilization at present is to make machines what they ought to be, the slaves, instead of the masters of men.
America may be unique in being a country which has leapt from barbarism to decadence without touching civilization.
There is not a respectable system of civilization known to history whose foundations were not laid in the institution of domestic slavery.
Wherever we look, the work of the chemist has raised the level of our civilization and has increased the productive capacity of the nation.
Modern civilization has taught us to convert night into day and golden silence into brazen din and noise.
One civilization after another has been wrecked upon the attempt to secure sufficient leadership from a single group or class.
It is no longer possible to accept the benefits of civilization and at the same time deny the supernatural basis upon which it is based.
