Civilization Quotes - Page 13

• While civilization has been improving our houses, it has not equally improved the men who are to inhabit them. It has created palaces, but it was not so easy to create noblemen and kings.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Kings, Men, House

  Henry David Thoreau (2009). “Walden”, p.21, Cosimo, Inc.

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• I had faith in Israel before it was established, I have in it now. I believe it has a glorious future before it - not just another sovereign nation, but as an embodiment of the great ideals of our civilization.

  Harry S. Truman

  Faith, Believe, Israel

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• But you have to understand, my beard is so nasty. I mean, it's the only beard in the history of Western civilization that makes Bob Dylan's beard look good.

  Bill Walton

  Basketball, Mean, Looks

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• The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded upon the spirituality of work.

  Simone Weil

  Lying, Greatness, Spirituality

  "The Need for Roots: Prelude to a Declaration of Duties Towards Mankind".

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• We never really grow up, we only learn how to act in public.

  Bryan White

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

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• The Lincoln Memorial is related to the toga and the civilization that wore it.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Artist, Memorial, Togas

  Frank Lloyd Wright (1987). “Truth Against the World: Frank Lloyd Wright Speaks for an Organic Architecture”

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• There are many humorous things in the world; among them, the white man's notion that he is less savage than the other savages.

  Mark Twain

  Humorous, Inspiration, Men

  Mark Twain, Peter Kaminsky (2009). “The Chicago of Europe, and Other Tales of Foreign Travel”, p.170, Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

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• In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is stoned to death.

  Joan D. Vinge

  Men, Land, Sight

  Joan D. Vinge (2002). “Catspaw”, p.82, Macmillan

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• K is for "Kenghis Khan"; He was a very nice person. History has no record of him. There is a moral in that, somewhere.

  Harlan Ellison

  Nice, History, Records

  Harlan Ellison (2014). “Strange Wine: Stories”, p.102, Open Road Media

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• The bureaucracy is expanding to meet the needs of the expanding bureaucracy.

  Oscar Wilde

  Needs, Libertarian, Expanding

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• My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Kings, Names, Despair

  "Ozymandias" l. 9 (1819)

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• True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written, and writing what deserves to be read.

  Pliny the Elder

  Writing, Glory, Written

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• It is entirely seemly for a young man killed in battle to lie mangled by the bronze spear. In his death all things appear fair.

  Homer

  Lying, Men, Battle

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• You would make a ship sail against the winds and currents by lighting a bonfire under her decks? I have no time for such nonsense.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Wind, Ships, Nonsense

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• We live only to discover beauty. All else is a form of waiting

  Khalil Gibran

  Beauty, Beautiful Women, Waiting

  Khalil Gibran “The New Frontier and Sand and Foam”, Library of Alexandria

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• Bushido is realised in the presence of death. In the case of having to choose between life and death you should choose death. There is no other reasoning.

  Yamamoto Tsunetomo

  Mean, Life And Death, Choices

  "Hagakure". Book by Yamamoto Tsunetomo and Nabeshima Mitsushige, circa 1716.

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• Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore, send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed, to me: I lift my lamp beside the golden door.

  Emma Lazarus

  Inspirational, Freedom, Tired

  "The New Colossus" l. 10 (1883).

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• A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization.

  Samuel Johnson

  History, Political, Tests

  Quoted in James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791) (entry for 1770)

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• From first to last the civilization of America has been bound up with its physical environment.

  Ellsworth Huntington

  Science, America, Environmental

  Ellsworth Huntington (2016). “A Chronicle of Aboriginal America: Juvenile History - - American”, p.74, VM eBooks

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• Underlying the whole scheme of civilization is the confidence men have in each other, confidence in their integrity, confidence in their honesty, confidence in their future.

  William Bourke Cockran

  Confidence, Honesty, Integrity

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• 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.

  Max Lerner

  Fire, Glowing, Discovery

  Max Lerner (1959). “The Unfinished Country”

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• If you chase two rabbits, you will lose them both.

  Leonard Nimoy

  Two, Rabbits, Ifs

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• I know a lot of Americans in Paris who have married Frenchmen. They keep bringing up their experience, the clash of civilizations, the clash of personalities.

  Leslie Caron

  Paris, Personality, Married

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• Meditation brings wisdom; lack of meditation leaves ignorance. Know well what leads you forward and what holds you back, and choose the path that leads to wisdom.

  Gautama Buddha

  Wisdom, Yoga, Ignorance

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• I would like to see us get this place right first before we have the arrogance to put significantly flawed civilizations out onto other planets, even though they may be utterly uninhabited.

  Patrick Stewart

  Arrogance, May, Firsts

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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