Top 1200 Human Civilization Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

The origin of civilization is man's determination to do nothing for himself which he can get done for him.

Unless we redesign our civilization in numerous ways, all of the science in the world won't save us.

We believe human begins have existed for only a small fraction of cosmic history, because human race has been improving so rapidly in knowledge and technology that if people had been around for millions of years, the human race would be much further along in it's mastery.

We believe that civilization has been created under the pressure of the exigencies of life at the cost of satisfaction of the instincts.

To love what is below the human is degradation; to love what is human for the sake of the human is mediocrity; to love the human for the sake of the Divine is enriching; to love the Divine for its own sake is sanctity.

As a human, you don't have to be too conscious of your movement. I think it's tougher playing a robot than a human, and even tougher playing a robot who begins showing traces of being a human.

The cynic, a parasite of civilization, lives by denying it, for the very reason that he is convinced that it will not fail.

He [John F. Kennedy] might have envisioned himself being "alone, at the top" but, like Woodrow Wilson, he would find out that not even a President moves free of human entanglement, human needs, human illusions; not even a President can be independent of those around him.

... it is a matter of civilizing everyone or not being civilized at all: the decay has always come from a partial civilization.

Seavilization will be better than civilization, and we have nearly half the world's surface to discover it.

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

Perfection isn't human. Human beings are not perfect. What evokes our love--and I mean love, not lust--is the imperfection of the human being. So, when the imperfection of the real person peaks through, say, 'This is a challenge to my compassion.' Then make a try, and something might begin to get going.

Of all nations, those submit to civilization with the most difficulty which habitually live by the chase.

If the Earth gets hit by an asteroid, it's game over. It's control-alt-delete for civilization.

Wilderness is the raw material out of which man has hammered the artifact called civilization.

For us democracy is a question of human dignity. And human dignity is political freedom, the right to freely express opinion and the right to be allowed to criticise and form opinions. Human dignity is the right to health, work, education and social welfare. Human dignity is the right and the practical possibility to shape the future with others. These rights, the rights of democracy, are not reserved for a select group within society, they are the rights of all the people.

Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock.

As long as our civilization is essentially one of property, of fences, of exclusiveness, it will be mocked by delusions.

Beneficience removes evils, introduces the practice of virtue, and adds to general welfare and civilization.

If we're going to achieve compassion in the machines and also feel safe with the machines, to raise machines with human-like values, we need to make them human-like by simulating, or perhaps eventually imitating, human beings in high accuracy from top to bottom.

In the cold, shivering twilight, preceding the daybreak of civilization, the dominating emotion of man was fear.

NOISE, n. A stench in the ear. Undomesticated music. The chief product and authenticating sign of civilization.

The nativity mystery “conceived from the Holy Spirit and born from the Virgin Mary”, means, that God became human, truly human out of his own grace. The miracle of the existence of Jesus , his “climbing down of God” is: Holy Spirit and Virgin Mary! Here is a human being, the Virgin Mary, and as he comes from God, Jesus comes also from this human being. Born of the Virgin Mary means a human origin for God. Jesus Christ is not only truly God, he is human like every one of us. He is human without limitation. He is not only similar to us, he is like us.

The human person is a unique composite - a unity of spirit and matter, soul and body, fashioned in the image of God and destined to live forever. Every human life is sacred, because every human person is sacred.

Chaos, the life force of the universe, is not human-hearted. Therefore the wizard cannot be human-hearted when he seeks to tap the force of the universe. He performs monstrous and arbitrary acts to loosen the hold of human limitations upon himself.

The question is wholly other, deeper and equally relevant to all: whether we shall, by whatever means, succeed in reconstituting the natural world as the true terrain of politics, rehabilitating the personal experience of human beings as the initial measure of things, placing morality above politics and responsibility above our desires, in making human community meaningful, in returning content to human speech, in reconstituting, as the focus of all social action, the autonomous, integral, and dignified human "I."

It is the beauty of women, and the fact that they are the focus, that they are sex objects in a positive sense, is the reason we have civilization.

I think human beings are drawn to other human beings who are beautiful or handsome. I do think that it probably helps to sway people towards liking somebody, if they're handsome or if they're fit or if they dress good. It probably shouldn't be that way but it's almost like human nature.

The laws of Nature take precedence of all human laws. The purpose of all human laws is one - to defeat the laws of Nature. This is the case among all the nations, both civilized and savage. It is a grotesquerie, but when the human race is not grotesque it is because it is asleep and losing its opportunity.

One must not judge everyone in the world by his qualities as a soldier: otherwise we should have no civilization.

The real question today is not when human life begins, but, what is the value of human life? The abortionist who reassembles the arms and legs of a tiny baby to make sure all its parts have been torn from its mother's body can hardly doubt whether it is a human being. The real question for him and for all of us is whether that tiny human life has a God-given right to be protected by the law - the same right we have.

Western civilization is based upon the libertarian principle, and all its achievements are the results of the action of free men.

What has destroyed every previous civilization has been the tendency to the unequal distribution of wealth and power.

The great menace of civilization in the present is that we offer an education with too little regard for the roots.

If we wish our civilization to survive we must break with the habit of deference to great men.

Civilization had too many rules for me, so I did my best to rewrite them.

Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization.

That which we call civilization is merely the accumulated debris of a chilling number of bad nights.

John Stockton is one of the true marvels, not just of basketball, or in America, but in the history of Western Civilization!

Extremes produce reaction. Beware that our boasted civilization does not lapse into barbarism.

To provide its happy people with perpetual fun is now the deepest purpose of Western civilization.

I cannot think that espionage can be recommended as a technique for building an impressive civilization. It's a lout's game.

Civilization is a natural and inevitable consequence - whether good or evil I am not prepared to state.

But the dignity of human life is unbreakably linked to the existence of the personal-infinite God. It is because there is a personal-infinite God who has made men and women in His own image that they have a unique dignity of life as human beings. Human life then is filled with dignity, and the state and humanistically oriented law have no right and no authority to take human life arbitrarily in the way it is being taken.

Human development, as an approach, is concerned with what I take to be the basic development idea: namely, advancing the richness of human life, rather than the richness of the economy in which human beings live, which is only a part of it.

I distrust all dead and mechanical formulas for expressing anything connected with human affairs and human personalities. Putting human affairs in exact formulas shows in itself a lack of the sense of humor and therefore a lack of wisdom.

The law should be the point at which savagery ended because civilization stood in its path.

A civilization in which there is not a continuous controversy about important issues is on the way to totalitarianism and death

It has been estimated that one third of our Western civilization bears the mark of its Jewish ancestry.

For me, the first fact of human existence is the human body. But if you embrace the reality of the human body, you embrace mortality, and that is a very difficult thing for anything to do because the self-conscious mind cannot imagine non-existence. It's impossible to do.

Civilization is nothing more than the effort to reduce the use of force to the last resort.

We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology.

One mind awake can become stronger than a thousand zombies sleepwalking in a dying civilization.

The novel, in its best form, I regard as one of the most powerful engines of civilization ever invented.

Sweatpants painted to look like denim are the end of civilization. It drives me mental.

Prejudice of any kind implies that you are identified with the thinking mind. It means you don't see the other human being anymore, but only your own concept of that human being. To reduce the aliveness of another human being to a concept is already a form of violence.

Poetry has always mattered, through human history, through all kinds of cultures, all kinds of violence and human desolation, as well as periods of great human affirmation. It's been associated with the power of the word, with the sacred, with magic and transformation, with the oral narratives that help a people cohere.

That contagion idea is so relevant and shows how quickly civilization could self-destruct.

Are some free fonts a gift to humanity rather than a blight on typographic civilization ?

It has been said that civilization is twenty-four hours and two meals away from barbarism.