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Last updated on December 4, 2024.
One might say that science itself, and civilization and art, are all about different orderings of the world - to contain it, and to make it in some sense intelligible, communicable. And bearable.
For such an advanced civilization as ours to be without images that are adequate to it is as serious a defect as being without memory.
The crimes of extreme civilization are certainly more atrocious than those of extreme barbarism.
It is Love that will save our world and our civilization.
I believe that truth is the glue that holds government together, not only our government, but civilization itself.
The strength of a civilization is not measured by its ability to fight wars, but rather by its ability to prevent them.
The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization.
The interesting thing is the field is so big - it's enormous. One thing a modern civilization needs is energy.
In a civilization like ours, I feel that everyone has to come to terms with the claims of Jesus Christ upon his life, or else be guilty of inattention or of evading the question.
In our present high state of civilization, people are so much alike, that anything at all odd comes on one with the freshness and character of an antique coin among smooth shillings.
The Nobel Prizes are much more than awards to scholars; they are a celebration of civilization, of mankind, and of what makes humans unique - that is their intellect from which springs creativity.
The enemies of American civilization-- for such are the enemies of slavery-- seem to be more on the alert than its friends.
For all the tribulations in our lives, for all the troubles that remain in the world, the decline of violence is an accomplishment that we can savor - and an impetus to cherish the forces of civilization and enlightenment that made it possible.
I'm opposed to a lot of the time that we as a civilization have come to spend looking at screens. For my money, life is much delicious damn near everyplace but inside that screen.
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.
The flowering of civilization is the finished man, the man of sense, of grace, of accomplishment, of social power--the gentleman.
The civilization of cities is breeding a new race of monks who have none of the original religious drive towards chastity, but are just incapable of facing the responsibilities of marriage.
History shows us that other highly developed forms of civilization have collapsed. Who knows whether the same fate does not await our own?
If civilization is going to survive, business and policy-makers must move on, to find within themselves more developed emotions than fear or greed.
The longer a region is in contact with modern civilization, the higher the degree to which the society in the region is civilized.
Civilization creates discontents; barbarism creates quick endings.
Artificial Intelligence leaves no doubt that it wants its audiences to enter a realm of pure fantasy when it identifies one of the last remaining islands of civilization as New Jersey.
The Filipino embraces civilization and lives and thrives in every clime, in contact with every people.
The reverence for the Scriptures is an element of civilization, for thus has the history of the world been preserved, and is preserved.
The time has come to choose a new direction of global development, to opt for a new civilization.
Civilization changes man on the outside. Meditation softens him within, through and through.
Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent.
It's a choice of civilization. I will be the president of those French who want to continue living in France as the French do.
Our survival, the future of our civilization, possibly the existence of mankind, depends on American leadership
OYSTER, n. A slimy, gobby shellfish which civilization gives men the hardihood to eat without removing its entrails! The shells are sometimes given to the poor.
Preach the blessings of our deeply incorporated civilization by the mouths of our eight-inch guns.
Civilization did not come with fire. It came with the discovery of how to use fire to heat water.
Distributed intelligence is the key to the advancement of human civilization. Dictatorships, communist countries, monarchies in the past all eventually collapsed because of their inefficiency in moving information.
How much modern civilization has lost, I think, when they lost the awareness of the billions of stars overhead.
India is a groundwater civilization. Almost all Indians use groundwater, directly or indirectly, each day.
Because our civilization is woven of so many diverse strands, the ideas which any one group accepts will be found to contain numerous contradictions.
No community has ever yet passed beyond the initial phases in which its pugnacity and fanaticism enabled it to found a nation, and its cupidity to establish and develop a commercial civilization.
To correct the evils, great and small, which spring from want of sympathy and from positive enmity among strangers, as nations or as individuals, is one of the highest functions of civilization.
Unemployment is a great tragedy. The man who goes about hopelessly seeking work in order to earn bread for his children is a living reproach to civilization.
We can either build a Star Trek future, in which our civilization rises to new heights, or descend into a Mad Max world. It is up to us.
It must first be reiterated that with extraordinary few exceptions no educated person in the history of Western Civilization from the third century B.C. onward believed that the earth was flat
The careful student of history will discover that Christianity has been of very little value in advancing civilization, but has done a great deal toward retarding it.
The aim of eugenics is to represent each class or sect by its best specimens; that done, to leave them to work out their common civilization in their own way.
Civilization is only possible for deeply unpleasant animals. It is only an ape that can be truly civilized.
Western civilization was declining too fast for comfort, but too slowly to be very exciting.
Our ability to reach unity in diversity will be the beauty and the test of our civilization.
It is a luxury to do something that serves no practical purpose: the luxury of civilization.
We don't understand the power of nature and the world because we don't live with it. Our environment is designed to sustain us. We are the domestic pets of a human zoo called civilization.
No university in the world has ever risen to greatness without a correspondingly great library... When this is no longer true, then will our civilization have come to an end.
The main problem is that we, as an Earth civilization, have not come to understand ourselves - see ourselves in a cosmic sense at all.
Economics is important because it's possible to buy the places that are necessary to live in relative inaccessibility and seclusion, or to move with a bit of style and chicness into the middle of civilization.
Maybe they didn't want you to realize that every civilization has its weakness. There's always one thing we depend on. And if someone takes it away all that's left is some story in a history class.
There is no document of civilization which is not at the same time a document of barbarism.
Generations do not age. Every youth of any period, any civilization, has the same possibilities as always.
A slight daily unconscious luxury is hardly ever wanting to the dwellers in civilization; like the gentle air of a genial climate, it is a perpetual minute enjoyment.
Had Greek civilization never existed ... we would never have become fully conscious.
Civilization and the life of nations are governed by the same laws as prevail throughout nature and organic life.
I trust the time is nigh when, with the universal assent of civilized people, all international differences shall be determined without resort to arms by the benignant processes of civilization.
When the faith dies, the culture it produced begins to die, then the civilization goes, and, then, the population.
Maybe we're about to radically change the operating system of the human condition. If so, then this would be a really good time to make backups of our civilization.
