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- I wouldn't say that religion has promoted the social progress of mankind. I say that it has been a detriment to the progress of civilization,…
- Rivers are inherently interesting. They mold landscapes, create fertile deltas, provide trade routes, a source for food and water; a place to wash and play;…
- Resort to science has rendered modern war so destructive of life and property that it presents a new problem to mankind, such, that unless our…
- The planetary phase of history has begun, but the future shape of global society remains profoundly uncertain. Though perhaps improbable, a shift toward a planetary…
- There are few substance to which it yields interest, when it is considered how very intimately the knowledge and properties and uses of iron is…
- We live in a glass-soaked civilization, but as for the bird in the Chinese proverb who finds it so difficult to discover air, the substance…
- Civilization is the process in which one gradually increases the number of people included in the term 'we' or 'us' and at the same time…
- "It is against their own insoluble problem of being human that the dull and base in humanity are in revolt in anti-Semitism. Judaism, nevertheless, together…
- The possibility of reduced-time interstellar travel either by advanced extraterrestrial civilizations at present or ourselves in the future, is not fundamentally constrained by physical principles.
- I saw a photo of the Svoboda leader, Yatseniuk [Arseniy Yatseniuk, one of Batkivschyna leaders] and Klitschko [Vitali Klitschko, UDAR party leader] together demonstrating the…
- An important aspect of the Eurasian worldview is an absolute denial of Western civilization. In the opinion of the Eurasians, the West with its ideology…
- Civilization is in no immediate danger of running out of energy or even just out of oil. But we are running out of environment-that is,…
- You may have practical ethics and that kind of thing, but there is no spirituality in any aspect of our Western civilization. Our religious life…
- In the same way that banks succeeded at privatizing the profits and socializing the losses as they led the global economy to the brink of…
- A warming of this magnitude would risk the end of civilization as we know it by the end of this century.
- Unlike most heritages, Western civilization is not primarily a geographical place or a genetic bloodline. It is a state of mind. No matter where on…
- I do not believe the greatest threat to our future is from bombs or guided missiles. I don't think our civilization will die that way.…
- Ethiopians, that is, Negroes, gave the world the first idea of right and wrong and thus laid the basis of religion and all true culture…
- If civilization is in danger today... it will do so with the enthusiastic assistance of credulous people. They seem to me more dangerous than the…
- Big bang cosmology is probably as widely believed as has been any theory of the universe in the history of Western civilization. It rests, however,…
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
- One might enumerate the items of high civilization, as it exists in other countries, which are absent from the texture of American… — Henry James
- The irony we face today is, they say the world made them to do these things, things which were against their integrity,… — 5h45hvut
- 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
- Our society must make it right and possible for old people not to fear the young or be deserted by them, for… — Pearl S. Buck
- Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years. — John Burroughs
- There is little chance that aliens from two societies anywhere in the Galaxy will be culturally close enough to really 'get along.'… — Seth Shostak