Civilization Quotes

For most of human civilization, the pace of innovation has been so slow that a generation might pass before a discovery would influence your life, culture or the conduct of nations. Neil deGrasse Tyson
Life Generation Culture Innovation Slow Before Has-Been Would Civilization Most Pass Been Discovery Conduct Human Nations Influence Pace Human Civilization Might Your
Arts are a luxury, proof that a civilization has risen above 'politics and war.' Nell Scovell
Politics War Luxury Proof Above Risen Civilization Arts
No administration could stop the tidal wave of immigration that swept over the land; no political party could restrain or control the enterprise of our people, and no reasonable man could desire to check the march of civilization. Nelson A. Miles
Man People Immigration Political Party Control Wave Our Our People Enterprise Administration Restrain Civilization Could Check Over Tidal Political Party Stop Land Reasonable Swept March Desire
Several years ago, when I was about to start a novel, I thought I might get some mileage out of the idea of a civilization in which people somehow felt - that is, they shared - all the pain and all the pleasure they caused one another. Octavia E. Butler
People Thought Pain Several Pleasure Out Some About Somehow Civilization Shared Idea Another Felt Caused Years Years Ago Get Which Might Mileage Novel Start
The habit of collecting, of attachment to things, is an essential human trait. But Western civilization put collecting on a pedestal by inventing museums. Museums are about representing power. It could be the king's power or, later, people's power. Orhan Pamuk
People King Power Pedestal Later Collecting About Inventing Civilization Attachment Habit Could Put Western Western Civilization Trait Essential Human Representing Things Museums
I am especially grateful, however, to have known the fifties, before we began to poison our own civilization - or at least before the effects of the poison began to be felt. Orson Scott Card
Grateful Poison Before Own Our Civilization Known Felt Am Least However Began Effects Fifties
The freedom enjoyed in Western society under the rule of law and constitutional government explains both the quality of its civilization and its wealth. Paul Johnson
Government Freedom Quality Wealth Law Society Rule Rule Of Law Constitutional Constitutional Government Both Civilization Western Western Society Explains Enjoyed
In the cold, shivering twilight, preceding the daybreak of civilization, the dominating emotion of man was fear. Paul P. Harris
Man Fear Cold Civilization Emotion Daybreak Dominating Twilight
I see little of more importance to the future of our country and of civilization than full recognition of the place of the artist. If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him. Pauline Kael
Future Art Culture Vision Free Country Society Our Recognition Must Follow See More Civilization Takes Importance Him His Than Artist Wherever Place Little Roots Full Nourish Set
My body really, really wanted to reproduce when I was 15. It took a lot of civilization, socialization, willpower and some emulsion polymerization technology for me not to reproduce at 15. Penn Jillette
Me Technology Took Willpower Some Civilization Lot Wanted Reproduce Really Body Socialization
Must simplicity and humanity go under in the interest of progress? What is the most important component of civilization - is it human or mechanical? Must thought processes become involved and insincere? Must the class-struggle warp those who are involved in it? Peter Abrahams
Humanity Progress Simplicity Thought Important Become Those Must Component Insincere Civilization Most Involved Go Human The Most Important Processes Interest Warp Who Mechanical
You think you're in another civilization, another time, and then you see antennas coming out of these hovels, and your mouth falls open when you see the descendants of the Incas shouting 'Columbo! Columbo!' Peter Falk
Time You Mouth Think Out See Civilization Open Another Another Time Coming Falls Then Shouting Your Descendants
The only hope is that our civilization will collapse at a certain point, as always happens in history. Then, out of barbarity, a renaissance. Pierre Schaeffer
Hope History Will Our Collapse Out Only Civilization Point Renaissance Always Happens Then Certain Certain Point
Has it struck you that the music which is regarded as the most sublime in western civilization, which is the music of Bach, is called baroque? Pierre Schaeffer
Music You Bach Struck Civilization Most Western Western Civilization Sublime Regarded Which Baroque
We need to make sure that the Voyager probes carrying a record of human civilization speeding beyond our solar system remain an introduction to the world that sent them and not an epitaph for a civilization that caused its own ruin. Priyamvada Natarajan
World Solar Own Speeding Our Ruin Solar System System Carrying Introduction Record Civilization Remain Beyond Make Sure Caused Human Human Civilization Sent Them Epitaph Need
Through the wholesale destruction of the representatives of a class that from the beginning of history had been the directing and creative force in civilization, a process began which was almost mechanical. Ralph Adams Cram
History Class Creative Destruction Beginning Directing Civilization Through Had Almost Force Been Began Representatives Process Which Mechanical Wholesale
Civilization, to be worthy of the name, must afford other methods of settling human differences than those of blood letting. Ralph Chaplin
Differences Other Settling Those Must Worthy Civilization Name Methods Blood Than Afford Human Letting
It's the Law of God that gave the stability to Christian civilization. Randall Terry
God Law Christian Gave Civilization Stability
We've gotta become the Martians. I'm a Martian - I tell you to become Martians. And we've gotta go to Mars and civilize Mars and build a whole civilization on Mars and then move out, 300 years from now into the universe. And when we do that, we have a chance of living forever. Ray Bradbury
You Build Become Living Universe Out Tell Mars Martian Civilization Gotta Go Years Forever Move Then Whole Now Chance
Western civilization is, no doubt, predominantly on the side of secular relativism. That is not true in the Islamic world, where faith dominates. Rene Girard
Faith World Secular Doubt Side Relativism No Doubt Civilization True Islamic Islamic World Western Western Civilization Where
The reactionary percentage of the electorate in these United States has been relatively constant since McCarthy's day; I'd estimate it as hovering around 30 percent. A minority, but one never all that enamored of the niceties of democracy - they see themselves as fighting for the survival of civilization, after all. Rick Perlstein
Day Democracy Survival Minority Fighting Relatively States Has-Been Constant See Percent Percentage Civilization Never Since Reactionary Around Hovering Enamored Been After McCarthy Estimate Themselves Electorate United United States
Conservatives are time-biders. And they understand, as Corey Robin explains in his indispensable book 'The Reactionary Mind,' that the direction of human history is not on their side - that is why they are reactionaries - because, other things equal, civilization does tend towards more inclusion, more emancipation, more liberalism. Rick Perlstein
History Book Mind Corey Other Conservatives Side Liberalism Emancipation Direction More Civilization Tend Indispensable Towards Equal Reactionary Robin Because Understand Does His Human Explains Human History Inclusion Why Things
'A Valley Without Wind' takes the idea of dungeon crawls and throws it on its head by casting you as a magic user in this 2D platforming labyrinth of a world. From NPC's to rescue, spells to learn, and a whole civilization you practically need to build back from scratch, this adventure takes to a new world where few other games dare to go. Rob Manuel
You World Wind Build Few Other Spells Back Valley Dare Magic Civilization Casting Throws Head Takes Idea Adventure New Learn Practically Without Go Dungeon Labyrinth Scratch New World Where Rescue Games User Whole Need
For me, politeness is a sine qua non of civilization. Robert A. Heinlein
Me Civilization Sine Politeness
In practice, the ocean is the world's wildest place because of both its fearsome natural danger and how easy it is out there to slip from the boundaries of law and civilization that seem so firm ashore. Rose George
Natural World Law Practice Ocean Wildest Danger Slip Out Easy Seem Fearsome Both Civilization Firm Boundaries Because How Place Ashore
Since the beginning of civilization humans have altered our environment and its biology to allow our civilization to thrive - from domesticating plants and animals to building shelter and tools from living organisms. Ryan Bethencourt
Plants Thrive Animals Building Beginning Living Biology Tools Our Civilization Allow Environment Since Altered Shelter Organisms Plants And Animals Living Organisms Humans
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