Machinery is the chief symbol of modern civilization; it represents a great sin. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Those who admire modern civilization usually identify it with the steam engine and the electric telegraph. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The disease of mutual distrust among nations is the bane of modern civilization — Franz Boas Copy Share Image
The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
How much modern civilization has lost, I think, when they lost the awareness of the billions of stars overhead. — Christopher Pike Copy Share Image
Modern civilization has taught us to convert night into day and golden silence into brazen din and noise. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Modern civilization has no understanding of sacred matters. Everything is backwards. — Thomas Yellowtail Copy Share Image
Present-Day Wickedness, Apostasy and Modern Civilization Cannot Prevent Revival. — John R. Rice Copy Share Image
The fact remains that, if the supply of energy failed, modern civilization would come to an end as abruptly as does the… — Frederick Soddy Copy Share Image
...the materialism of modern civilization is paradoxically founded on a hatred of materiality, a goal-oriented desire to obliterate all natural limits through… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
The reason renewables can't power modern civilization is because they were never meant to. One interesting question is why anybody ever thought… — Michael Shellenberger Copy Share Image
If modern civilization man had to kill the animals he eats, the number of vegetarians would rise astronomically. — Christian Morgenstern Copy Share Image
The foundation of any and every civilization, including our own, is private ownership of the means of production. Whoever wishes to criticize… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The human heart as modern civilization has made it is more prone to hatred than to friendship. And it is prone to… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
If the Negro is not careful he will drink in all the poison of modern civilization and die from the effects of… — Marcus Garvey Copy Share Image
Modern civilization has made woman a little wiser, but it has increased her suffering because of man's covetousness. The woman of yesterday… — Kahlil Gibran Copy Share Image
If I were starting life over again, I am inclined to think that I would go into the advertising business in preference… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
What interests me is to paint the kind of antisensitivity that impregnates modern civilization. I think art since Cezanne has become extremely… — Roy Lichtenstein Copy Share Image
Modern civilization is so complex as to make the devotional life all but impossible. It wears us out by multiplying distractions and… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
Hate-on-the-highway is an institution occupying a high place in our modern civilization…The godawful glares that drivers exchange as they pass each other,… — H. Allen Smith Copy Share Image
Our youth must be steadfast and take advantage of the benefits of modern civilization. Do not fall prey to idleness for it… — Haile Selassie Copy Share Image
It is necessary for us to explain the involuntary repugnance we possess for the nature and personality of the Jews. The Jews… — Richard Wagner Copy Share Image
[T]he true natural sciences lock together in theory and evidence to form the ineradicable technical base of modern civilization. The pseudosciences satisfy… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
We Christians must simplify our lives or lose untold treasures on earth and in eternity. Modern civilization is so complex as to… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
“To understand the dominating role played by technics in modern civilization….one must explain the culture that was ready to use them and… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
Modern civilization is largely devoted to the pursuit of the cult of delusion. There is no general information about the nature of… — Sogyal Rinpoche Copy Share Image
This the American black man knows: his fight here is a fight to the finish. Either he dies or wins. If he… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
Once you get past the grand normative claims made in the West for literature, especially the novel, in the post-Christian era -… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
“Where are we as a modern civilization if our educational institutions conspire to train only a fraction of our capacities? and if… — Eugene Taylor Copy Share Image
“Modern civilization depends on science … James Smithson was well aware that knowledge should not be viewed as existing in isolated parts,… — Joseph Henry Copy Share Image
One of the greatest disasters that happened to modern civilization was for democracy to inscribe "liberty" on its banners instead of "justice."… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
A great purposelessness has descended upon modern civilizations. People at large have lost any sense of the meaning and purpose of life;… — Matthew Kelly Copy Share Image
“Modern civilization seems to be incapable of producing people endowed with imagination, intelligence, and courage. In practically every country there is a… — Alexis Carrel Copy Share Image
The interesting thing is the field is so big - it's enormous. One thing a modern civilization needs is energy. — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
Everything in modern civilization is based on this concept of time which is not really valid. — Jose Arguelles Copy Share Image
Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled. — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
One could almost phrase the motto of our modern civilization thus: Science is my shepherd; I shall not want. — Harry Emerson Fosdick Copy Share Image
“...our modern civilization returns exceedingly little of what it borrows." -Martin Renner” — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Modern civilization is a product of an energy binge. Binges often end in hangovers. — Alfred W. Crosby Copy Share Image
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