381 Civilization Quotes for You to Enjoy

Back through the ages of barbarism and civilization, in all tongues, we find this instinctive pleasure in the imitative action that is the very essence of all drama. George Pierce Baker

Action Drama Back Imitative Pleasure Find Civilization Through Instinctive Very Essence Barbarism Ages Tongues

At the core of 'Star Trek' is Gene Roddenberry's vision of the future. So much of science-fiction is about a dystopian society with human civilization having crumbled. He had an affirmative, shining, positive view of the future. George Takei

I lay this down as a fundamental proposition, which I do not think will be denied, that whoever controls the taxation and trade policy of a country controls its destiny and the entire character of its civilization. George William Russell

Character Will Country Down Think Destiny Entire Civilization Lay Proposition Policy Trade Denied Controls Which Taxation Whoever Fundamental

The news media is so quick to pick up tragic stories of imperiled children that it seems like there are more terrible events today than ever before - when in fact it's quite the opposite. It is, in all manners possible to calculate, the safest time in the history of civilization to be a kid. Gever Tulley

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Artificial Intelligence leaves no doubt that it wants its audiences to enter a realm of pure fantasy when it identifies one of the last remaining islands of civilization as New Jersey. Godfried Danneels

Artificial Intelligence Intelligence Pure Doubt Enter No Doubt Civilization Remaining New Islands Audiences New Jersey Leaves Artificial Wants Fantasy Realm Jersey Last

I don't believe civilization can do a lot more than educate a person's senses. Grace Paley

Believe More Civilization Educate Lot Than Person Senses

As a kid, I didn't need to be convinced the future promised peril and oppression, so when I started thinking up the middle-grade science fiction novel that became 'The Boy at the End of the World,' it seemed only natural to build the story around a dark vision of the future. In my book, civilization has nearly destroyed itself. Greg van Eekhout

Future Science Natural Book Oppression World Vision Dark Build Thinking Kid Destroyed Promised Seemed Only Civilization Peril Became Science Fiction Around Boy End Up Itself End Of The World Fiction Story Convinced Novel Nearly Started Need

Sensible and responsible women do not want to vote. The relative positions to be assumed by man and woman in the working out of our civilization were assigned long ago by a higher intelligence than ours. Grover Cleveland

Compared with members of other nations of Western civilization, the ordinary American is a rationalistic being, and there are close relations between his moralism and his rationalism. Even romanticism, transcendentalism, and mysticism tend to be, in the American culture, rational, pragmatic and optimistic. Gunnar Myrdal

Culture Other Relations Members Civilization Rational Rationalism Tend Mysticism Between Pragmatic His Western Western Civilization Optimistic Close American American Culture Nations Being Romanticism Ordinary Even Compared

Responsibility has become the fundamental imperative in modern civilization, and it should be an unavoidable criterion to assess and evaluate human actions, including, in a special way, development activities. Hans Jonas

Responsibility Become Way Criterion Unavoidable Civilization Imperative Development Modern Modern Civilization Human Human Actions Should Evaluate Special Actions Including Activities Assess Fundamental

There's still racism. Western Europe... has taken the native cultures of the Americas, the African cultures, the Asian civilization and lumped them together into The Others. Hans Rosling

Together Racism Others Civilization Taken Still Cultures Western Western Europe African Native Them Asian Europe Americas Lumped

It seems to me we are now, since 1789, going through the same sort of process of regeneration the Roman world went through between 300 and 500. It is only to be hoped all civilization will not again be destroyed by the anarchists. Harry Graf Kessler

The prevalence of suicide, without doubt, is a test of height in civilization; it means that the population is winding up its nervous and intellectual system to the utmost point of tension and that sometimes it snaps. Havelock Ellis

Sometimes Nervous Doubt Suicide System Winding Prevalence Civilization Point Tension Without Test Snaps Intellectual Up Height Means Population Utmost

The more rapidly a civilization progresses, the sooner it dies for another to rise in its place. Havelock Ellis

Rapidly Rise More Civilization Sooner Another Dies Place

It would be wonderful if I could see the end of civilization during my lifetime. Hayao Miyazaki

Wonderful Would Would-Be See Civilization Could Lifetime End If I Could

Sex appeal is the keynote of our civilization. Henri Bergson

Sex Our Sex Appeal Civilization Appeal

Strong, generous, and confident, she has nobly served mankind. Beware how you trifle with your marvellous inheritance, this great land of ordered liberty, for if we stumble and fall freedom and civilization everywhere will go down in ruin. Henry Cabot Lodge

Great Freedom You Liberty Strong Will Stumble Fall Down Ruin Everywhere Trifle Civilization Marvellous Generous Nobly Beware She How Go Confident Ordered Land Mankind Your Inheritance Served

The face of nature and civilization in this our country is to a certain point a very sufficient literary field. But it will yield its secrets only to a really grasping imagination. To write well and worthily of American things one need even more than elsewhere to be a master. Henry James

Nature Will Face Country Master Field Imagination Elsewhere Our Secrets Worthily More Only Civilization Point Write Well Very Yield Than American Literary Really Certain Certain Point Grasping Even Sufficient Things Need

The American economic, political, and social organization has given to its citizens the benefits of material prosperity, political liberty, and a wholesome natural equality; and this achievement is a gain, not only to Americans, but to the world and to civilization. Herbert Croly

The worth of a civilization or a culture is not valued in the terms of its material wealth or military power, but by the quality and achievements of its representative individuals - its philosophers, its poets and its artists. Herbert Read

Quality Culture Worth Wealth Power Military Philosophers Valued Civilization Poets Individuals Terms Material Material Wealth Representative Artists Achievements Military Power

Thus, it was to seek true civilization and true justice for all the peoples of the world, and to view this as the destruction of personal freedom and respect is to be assailed by the hatred and emotion of war, and to make hasty judgments. Hideki Tojo

War Freedom Justice Respect People World Destruction Hatred Hasty Seek Civilization Emotion True Thus Make Judgments Personal Personal Freedom View

Humans have lived for much, much longer than the approximately 10,000 years of settled agricultural civilization. Howard Rheingold

Settled Approximately Civilization Longer Years Than Much Agricultural Lived Humans

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