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Civilization Quotes by Alfred North Whitehead
- A race preserves its vigor so long as it harbors a real contrast between what has been and what may be; and so long as…
- Without adventure civilization is in full decay.
- Without adventure civilization is in full decay. ... The great fact [is] that in their day the great achievements of the past were the adventures…
- Civilizations can only be understood by those who are civilized.
- It is a profoundly erroneous truism, repeated by all copy books and by eminent people when they are making speeches, that we should cultivate the…
- A general definition of civilization: a civilized society is exhibiting the fine qualities of truth, beauty, adventure, art, peace.
- It must be admitted that there is a degree of instability which is inconsistent with civilization. But, on the whole, the great ages have been…
- Without adventure all civilization is full of decay. Adventure rarely reaches its predetermined end. Columbus never reached China.
- The worth of men consists in their liability to persuasion. . . . Civilisation is the maintenance of social order, by its own inherent persuasiveness…
- The vigour of civilised societies is preserved by the widespread sense that high aims are worth while. Vigorous societies harbour a certain extravagance of objectives,…
- Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them.
- It is the business of future to be dangerous.... The major advances in civilization are processes that all but wreck the societies in which they…
More Civilization Quotes
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- We released 400,000 classified documents, the most extraordinary history of a war to ever have been released in our civilization. Those documents… — Julian Assange
- Debt is part of the human condition. Civilization is based on exchanges - on gifts, trades, loans - and the revenges and… — Margaret Atwood
- The papacy again, representing the traditional unity of European civilization, has also shown itself unable to limit effectively the push of nationalism. — Irving Babbitt
- Civilization... wrecks the planet from seafloor to stratosphere. — Richard Bach
- Civilization is a youth with a molotov cocktail in his hand. Culture is the Soviet tank or L.A. cop that guns him… — Edward Abbey
- Imagination has brought mankind through the dark ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination led Columbus to discover America. Imagination led… — L. Frank Baum
- Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men. — Jane Addams
- Civilization exists precisely so that there may be no masses but rather men alert enough never to constitute masses. — Georges Bernanos
- Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization. — Ambrose Bierce
- In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from… — Ambrose Bierce