His Civilization Quotes

11 quotes by 10 authors

Let us candidly admit that there are shameful blemishes on the American past, of which the worst by far is rum. Nevertheless, we have improved… — Bernard DeVoto
The qualities which technique requires for its advance are precisely those characteristics of a technical order which do not represent indivisual intelligence...The individual, in order… — Jacques Ellul
The sickness of the individual is ultimately caused by and sustained by the sickness of his civilization — Herbert Marcuse
It's a curious thing, this thing we call civilization...we think it is an affair of epochs, and nations. It's really an affair of individuals. One… — William Dean Howells
Many people correctly make the point that our only hope is to turn to God. For example, Charles Lindbergh, who said that in his young… — Marion G. Romney
Unless man has the wit and the grit to build his civilization on something better than material power, it is surely idle to talk of… — Francis Bowes Sayre, Sr.
The philosopher cannot seriously put to himself questions that his civilization has not lived. — William Barrett
A writer is justly called 'universal' when he is understood within the limits of his civilization, though that be bounded by a country or an… — George Edward Woodberry
I don't think it had ever occurred to me that man's supremacy is not primarily due to his brain, as most of the books would… — John Wyndham
A man's hope measures his civilization. The attainability of the hope measures, or may measure, the civilization of his nation and time. — Ezra Pound
One measure of a civilization, either of an age or of a single individual, is what that age or person really wishes to do. A… — Ezra Pound

Who Wrote These His Civilization Quotes

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