Civilization Quotes - Page 14

• Today, human civilization is drowning in a sea of lies.

  L. Neil Smith

  Lying, Sea, Deceit

  "Empire of Lies" by L. Neil Smith, www.lneilsmith.org. June 15, 2003.

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• A dialogue among civilizations can be seen as a dialogue between the individual and the universal.

  Abdelaziz Bouteflika

  Individual, Dialogue, Universal

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• If the lives of men can be measured in terms of years, ideologies in decades, and nations in centuries, then the unit measuring civilizations, born of the interaction among peoples, would be the millennium.

  Abdelaziz Bouteflika

  Men, Years, Would Be

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• George Bush doesn't represent any civilization!

  George Galloway

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• And we owe science to the combined energies of individual men of genius, rather than to any tendency to progress inherent in civilization.

  Chauncey Wright

  Men, Progress, Energy

  Chauncey Wright (2003). “Philosphical Discussions”, p.51, A&C Black

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• A lot of people thought of me as a threat to Western civilization.

  John Milius

  People, Threat, Western

  Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. May 7, 2003.

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• Evolution made civilization steward of this planet. A hundred thousand years later, the steward stood before evolution not helper but destroyer, not healer but parasite. So evolution withdrew its gift, passed civilization by, rescued the planet from intelligence and handed it to love.

  Richard Bach

  Love, Years, Intelligence

  "One". Book by Richard Bach, 1988.

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• It's the Law of God that gave the stability to Christian civilization.

  Randall Terry

  Christian, Law, Stability

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• Our idea of what constitutes social good has advanced with the procession of the ages, from those desperate times when just to keep body and soul together was an achievement, to the great present when "good" includes an agreeable, stable civilization accessible to all, the opportunity of each to develop his particular genius and the privilege of mutual usefulness.

  Frances Perkins

  Opportunity, Ideas, Achievement

  Frances Perkins (1934). “People at work”

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• The city is the nerve center of our civilization. It is also the storm center.

  Josiah Strong

  Cities, Storm, Nerves

  Josiah Strong (1963). “Our Country”

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• AIDS is a global problem and there should be a global solution found by the entire international community. It is really scary to see and imagine our world fall into pieces because we refuse to share and put in the common vestiges of our civilizations.

  Sarah Polley

  Fall, Our World, Community

  Interview with Roxanna Bina, www.ifqmag.com.

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• Sunday is the core of our civilization, dedicated to thought and reverence.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Sunday, Sabbath, Dedicated

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2734, Delphi Classics

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• Ultimately, there is no compromise. Westerners will either retain their civilization, including the right to insult and blaspheme, or not.

  Daniel Pipes

  Comeback, Insult, Compromise

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• You know, our sense of individuality is just the number one target of civilization.

  Alan Rudolph

  Numbers, Individuality, Target

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

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• The civilized are those who get more out of life than the uncivilized, and for this we are not likely to be forgiven.

  Cyril Connolly

  Atheism, Literature, Forgiven

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• Every new stroke of civilization has cost the lives of countless brave men, who have fallen defeated by the dragon, in their efforts to win the apples of the Hesperides, or the fleece of gold. Fallen in their efforts to overcome the old, half sordid savagery of the lower stages of creation, and win the next stage.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Winning, Men, Dragons

  D. H. Lawrence (1956). “The Virgin and the Gipsy”

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• We will never be an advanced civilization as long as rain showers can delay the launching of a space rocket.

  George Carlin

  Rain, Space, Long

  George Carlin (2002). “Napalm & Silly Putty”, Hyperion

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• Thousands of years and many civilizations have defined a marriage as the union between one man and one woman. With few exceptions, those civilizations that did not follow that perished.

  Randy Neugebauer

  Marriage, Men, Years

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• One man in his time plays many parts.

  William Shakespeare

  Birthday, Character, Men

  'As You Like It' (1599) act 2, sc. 7, l. 139

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• History shows us that other highly developed forms of civilization have collapsed. Who knows whether the same fate does not await our own?

  Christian Lous Lange

  Fate, Doe, Form

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• The city has become a serious menace to our civilization It has a peculiar attraction for the immigrant.

  Josiah Strong

  Cities, Peculiar, Serious

  Josiah Strong (1963). “Our Country”

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• One... gets an impression that civilization is something which was imposed on a resisting majority by a minority which understood how to obtain possession of the means to power and coercion. It is, of course, natural to assume that these difficulties are not inherent in the nature of civilization itself but are determined by the imperfections of the cultural forms which have so far been developed.

  Sigmund Freud

  Mean, Imperfection, Majority

  Sigmund Freud, James Strachey, Anna Freud, Carrie Lee Rothgeb (1961). “The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud”

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• All the worth which the human being possesses all spiritual reality, he possesses only through the State... For Truth is the Unity of the universal and subjective Will; and the Universal is to be found in the State, in its laws, its universal and rational arrangements. The State is the Divine Idea as it exists on Earth. We have in it, therefore, the object of History in a more definite shape than before; that in which Freedom obtains objectivity...

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Spiritual, Reality, Objectivity

  "Lectures on the Philosophy of History, Volume 1". Book by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, 1832.

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• Our concern is not how to worship in the catacombs but how to remain human in the skyscrapers.

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Worship, Skyscraper, Concern

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (1955). “Insecurity of Freedom”, p.23, Macmillan

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• We are like ignorant shepherds living on a site where great civilizations once flourished.

  Allan Bloom

  Ignorant, Shepherds, Site

  Allan Bloom (2008). “Closing of the American Mind”, p.239, Simon and Schuster

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