"Civilization is hideously fragile and there's not much……" — Carrie P Snow
"Civilization is hideously fragile and there's not much between us and the horrors underneath, just about a coat of varnish."
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28 Quotes by Carrie P Snow
Carrie P Snow has 28 quotes on this site.
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If you pursue happiness you never find it.
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Advertising degrades the people it appeals to; it deprives them of their will to choose.
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Two polar groups: at one pole we have the literary intellectuals, at the other scientists, and as the most representative,…
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I was searching for something a little more than a dashing metaphor, a good deal less than a cultural map:…
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Civilization is hideously fragile... there's not much between us and the Horrors underneath, just about a coat of varnish.
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The main issue [of the Scientific Revolution] is that the people in the industrialised countries are getting richer, and those…
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Most of the scientists I have known well have felt - just as deeply as the non-scientists I have known…
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Nine English traditions out of ten date from the latter half of the 19th century.
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There is, of course, no complete solution. But we can do something. The chief means open to us is education…
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I was moving among two groups... who had almost ceased to communicate at all, who in intellectual, moral, and psychological…
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The only weapon we have to oppose the bad effects of technology is technology itself. There is no other. We…
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I felt I was moving among two groups [literary intellectuals and scientists] comparable in intelligence, identical in race, not grossly…
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No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our…
— Hannah Arendt
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The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be…
— Hannah Arendt
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We released 400,000 classified documents, the most extraordinary history of a war to ever have been released in our civilization.…
— Julian Assange
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Debt is part of the human condition. Civilization is based on exchanges - on gifts, trades, loans - and the…
— Margaret Atwood
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The papacy again, representing the traditional unity of European civilization, has also shown itself unable to limit effectively the push…
— Irving Babbitt
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Civilization... wrecks the planet from seafloor to stratosphere.
— Richard Bach
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Civilization is a youth with a molotov cocktail in his hand. Culture is the Soviet tank or L.A. cop that…
— Edward Abbey
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Imagination has brought mankind through the dark ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination led Columbus to discover America.…
— L. Frank Baum
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Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men.
— Jane Addams
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Civilization exists precisely so that there may be no masses but rather men alert enough never to constitute masses.
— Georges Bernanos
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Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization.
— Ambrose Bierce
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In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by…
— Ambrose Bierce
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