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Last updated on December 4, 2024.
Even on the most solemn occasions I got away without wearing socks and hid that lack of civilization in high boots
Paul Brunton was surely one of the finest mystical flowers to grow on the wasteland of our secular civilization. What he has to say is important to us all.
America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization.
What we are confronted with now is a growing perception that if we desire a certain type of civilization and culture we must exterminate the sort of people who do not fit into it.
Our fantastic civilization has fallen out of touch with many aspects of nature, and with none more completely than with night.
I believe with all my heart that civilization has produced nothing finer than a man or woman who thinks and practices true tolerance.
I would have been dead if it weren't for that great gift to civilization from the Chemistry Department of Harvard, which was napalm, or sticky jellied gasoline.
All through history, a nation or a civilization's enduring glory is articulated by its mega constructions - the pyramids, the lofty cathedrals of the Christian world.
The greatest advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science and literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government.
I believe, 50 years from now, when you write history, one technology that would have changed human civilization is going to be the mobile Internet.
I think... the history of civilization is an attempt to codify, classify and categorize aspects of human nature that hardly lend themselves to that process.
Right now, there's the illusion of order and civilization, but there's a tremendous amount of economic tension in this country and the educational system is constantly eroding.
Civilization, to be worthy of the name, must afford other methods of settling human differences than those of blood letting.
If the Egyptian people can create a democracy in the heart of the Arab world, it will be a more significant contribution to civilization than the great pyramids.
For the liberal state to accommodate a diversity of beliefs while having few positive convictions is one of the more admirable achievements of civilization.
Security, the chief pretense of civilization, cannot exist where the worst of dangers, the danger of poverty, hangs over everyone's head.
Civilization depends on our expanding ability to produce food efficiently, which has markedly accelerated thanks to science and technology.
If I had to fault President [Barack] Obama, I would say that sometimes governs like a visitor from a morally superior civilization.
what about Christianity? Are we right in the face of so long a record of its poverty in international achievement, to keep invoking it as a standard, almost synonymous with civilization?
Social intercourse -- a very limited thing in a half civilized country, becomes in our centers of civilization a great power. . .
There was an age, however, when the transition from savagery to civilization, with all its impressive outward manifestations in art and architecture, took place for the first time.
Hold fast to the Bible. To the influence of this Book we are indebted for all the progress made in true civilization and to this we must look as our guide in the future.
As civilization advances, man grows unconscious of the primitive elements of life; he is separated from them by his perfection of material techniques.
Anything that we scientists can do to weaken the hold of religion, should be done and may, in fact, in the end, be our greatest contribution to civilization.
I would prefer every [American] state keep the definition of marriage that's prevailed in Western civilization for a couple thousand years.
Against the dark background of this contemporary civilization of well-being, even the arts tend to mingle, to lose their identity.
The study of history, it seems to me, leads to the conviction that all important events tend toward the same end - the civilization of mankind.
The exact measure of the progress of civilization is the degree in which the intelligence of the common mind has prevailed over wealth and brute force.
Back through the ages of barbarism and civilization, in all tongues, we find this instinctive pleasure in the imitative action that is the very essence of all drama.
Well, we can't afford blindness anymore. There are tens of thousands of thugs who loathe liberty and love death, and want to annihilate Western civilization.
Bankruptcy and repudiation are the springboards from which much of our civilization vaults and turns its somersets, but the savagestands on the unelastic plank of famine.
Osbert was the only one who didn't seem suspicious. He was so interested in the Decline of Western Civilization that he missed the version of it taking place under his nose.
Nihilism is a natural consequence of a culture (or civilization) ruled and regulated by categories that mask manipulation, mastery and domination of peoples and nature.
And after two days in civilization we realized we could never stay for long and started to plan our next adventure.
The doctrine of a material hell in its effect was to chill and deaden the sympathies, predispose men to inflict suffering, and to retard the march of civilization.
America is the civilization of people engaged in transforming themselves. In the past, the stars of the performance were the pioneer and the immigrant. Today, it is youth and the Black.
Yet, history has shown that if material force can defeat some ideologies it can no longer obliterate a civilization without destabilizing the whole planet.
Okay, so what we really have to recognize and own as Americans is that our way of being is itself perhaps the greatest threat to the continuation of civilization.
The model of modern Western civilization is the virus: the pure bit of information, which turns its environment into endless reproductions of itself.
The transaction between writer and reader is human civilization's most dazzling feat, yet it's such a part of our lives that it's, well, prosaic.
I do not think that any civilization can be called complete until it has progressed from sophistication to unsophistication, and made a conscious return to simplicity of thinking and living.
One of the effects of civilization is to diminish the rigour of the application of the law of natural selection. It preserves weakly lives that would have perished in barbarous lands.
For nearly as long as civilization has existed, patriarchy - enforced through the rights of the firstborn son - has been the organizing principle, with few exceptions.
It's hard to imagine a civilization without onions; in one form or another their flavor blends into almost everything in the meal except the desert.
And we owe science to the combined energies of individual men of genius, rather than to any tendency to progress inherent in civilization.
The great advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science or literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government.
Egypt gave birth to what later would become known as 'Western Civilization,' long before the greatness of Greece and Rome.
Each new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little barbarians, who must be civilized before it is too late.
Our entire much-praised technological progress, and civilization generally, could be compared to an axe in the hand of a pathological criminal.
California is now close to spending more on prisons than it does on higher education - surely the death warrant of a civilization.
There are certain things for which civilization has no answer. But if you choose to meddle thus, then you must be prepared to facethe consequences, whatever they are.
Civilization as we know it will come to an end sometime in this century unless we can find a way to live without fossil fuels.
I don't want to compare my city to Zurich; thank God we're not that boring. Rio is advancing fast, but we're at a different phase in our civilization.
We're a depraved civilization. All this technology, all the computer games and the iPhones... nobody will sit for art anymore. What a dismaying state of humanity.
Since the same human mire remains beneath, does not all civilization reduce itself to the superiority of smelling nice and living well?
Every two days now we create as much information as we did from the dawn of civilization up until 2003.
The first essential character [of civilization], I should say, is forethought. This, indeed, is what mainly distinguishes men from brutes and adults from children.
Never had there been such an attempt to make conquest the servant of civilization. About keeping India there is no question. England has a real duty there.
A German immersed in any civilization different from his own loses a weight equivalent in volume to the amount of intelligence he displaces.
A democratic civilization will save itself only if it makes the language of the image into a stimulus for critical reflection - not an invitation for hypnosis.
