Mahatma Gandhi Quotes, Civilization Quotes, People Quotes

Civilization is not an incurable disease, but it should never be forgotten that the English people are at present afflicted by it.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , Civilization Quotes , People Quotes

Is one of the fairest portions of the globe to remain in a state of nature, the haunt of a few wretched savages, when it seems destined by the Creator to give support to a large population and to be the seat of civilization?

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : William Henry Harrison Quotes , Civilization Quotes , Giving Quotes

I believe in corporations. They are indispensable instruments of our modern civilization. But I believe they should be so regulated that they shall act for the interests of the community as a whole.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Theodore Roosevelt Quotes , Believe Quotes , Civilization Quotes

Emancipation is the demand of civilization. That is a principle; everything else is an intrigue.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , War Quotes , Civilization Quotes

Is one of the fairest portions of the globe to remain in a state of nature, the haunt of a few wretched savages, when it seems destined by the Creator to give support to a large population and to be the seat of civilization?

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : William Henry Harrison Quotes , Civilization Quotes , Giving Quotes

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

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Civilization Quotes , Needs Quotes

Any government that chooses to be an ally of terror has also chosen to be an enemy of civilization.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : George W. Bush Quotes , Government Quotes , Civilization Quotes

Civil confusions often spring from trifles but decide great issues.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Aristotle Quotes , Spring Quotes , Civilization Quotes

Our way of life is at stake, our grandchildren are at stake, the future of civilization is at stake.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Al Gore Quotes , Grandchildren Quotes , Civilization Quotes

Civilization has made man, if not always more bloodthirsty, at least more viciously, more horribly bloodthirsty.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes , Men Quotes , Civilization Quotes

...the materialism of modern civilization is paradoxically founded on a hatred of materiality, a goal-oriented desire to obliterate all natural limits through technology, imposing an abstract grid over nature.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alan Watts Quotes , Technology Quotes , Civilization Quotes

Further march of civilization seems to employ increasing domination of man over beast, together with a growingly humane method of using them.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , Men Quotes , Civilization Quotes

I think the health of our civilization, the depth of our awareness about the underpinnings of our culture, and our concern for the future, can all be tested by how well we support our libraries.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Carl Sagan Quotes , Thinking Quotes , Civilization Quotes

Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Winston Churchill Quotes , Civilization Quotes , Political Quotes

Life creeps slowly upward.... When some forgotten inventor of the older world smote his rival or enemy with a branch of wood and found that it was good and thereafter made a practice of smiting rivals and enemies with branches of wood, then, and on that day, artificiality may be said to have begun. Then, and on that day, was begun a revolution destined to change the history of life. Then, and on that day, was laid the cornerstone of that most tremendous of artifices, CIVILIZATION!

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Jack London Quotes , Practice Quotes , Civilization Quotes

Those who admire modern civilization usually identify it with the steam engine and the electric telegraph.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Civilization Quotes , Modern Quotes

Who would have predicted a century ago that the richest civilizations in history would be made up of polluted tracts of suburban development dominated by the private automobile, shopping malls, and a throwaway economy? Surely, this is not the ultimate fulfillment of our destiny.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alan Thein Durning Quotes , Destiny Quotes , Civilization Quotes

In this respect, the history of science, like the history of all civilization, has gone through cycles.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Abdus Salam Quotes , Respect Quotes , Civilization Quotes

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

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Civilization Quotes , Long Quotes

Only world law can assure progress towards a civilized peaceful community.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Albert Einstein Quotes , Law Quotes , Civilization Quotes