Human Civilization Quotes
39 quotes by 31 authors
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But in practical affairs, particularly in politics, men are needed who combine human experience and interest in human relations with a knowledge of science and…
— Max Born
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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…
— George Fownes
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More than any other time in history, the 1990s will be a turning point for human civilization.
— David Suzuki
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Unless we stop dumping 70 million tons of global warming pollution into the atmosphere every 24 hours, which we are doing right now ... the…
— Al Gore
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If we did not take action to solve this crisis, it could indeed threaten the future of human civilization. That sounds shrill. It sounds hard…
— Al Gore
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If human civilization is going to invade the waters of the earth, then let it be first of all to carry a message of respect.
— Jacques Yves Cousteau
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The survival of the United States of America as we know it is at risk. And even more — if more should be required —…
— Al Gore
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The spiritual sense of our place in nature... can be traced to the origins of human civilization... The last vestige of organized goddess worship was…
— Al Gore
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Today, human civilization is drowning in a sea of lies.
— L. Neil Smith
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Human civilization is not something achieved against nature; it is rather the outcome of the working of the innate qualities of man.
— Ludwig von Mises
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The sovereign state has in our times become a lethal danger to human civilization because technical developments enable it to employ an infinite number and…
— Christian Lous Lange
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Human civilization has been no more than a strange luminescence growing more intense by the hour, of which no one can say when it will…
— W G Sebald
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The internet, our greatest tool of emancipation, has been transformed into the most dangerous facilitator of totalitarianism we have ever seen. The internet is a…
— Julian Assange
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I should like to say that I am as proud of my Chinese heritage and background as I am devoted to modern science, a part…
— Chen-Ning Yang
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The solution to women’s issues can only be achieved in a free and democratic society in which human energy is liberated, the energy of both…
— Tawakkol Karman
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Ladies, you may not realize this, understand this, or even believe this, but everything else we do is ultimately for you. Men don't do anything-create…
— Tucker Max
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The body of economic knowledge is an essential element in the structure of human civilization; it is the foundation upon which modern industrialism and all…
— Ludwig von Mises
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The light of Christ illuminates the laboratory, his speech is the fount of communication, he makes possible the study of humans in all their interactions,…
— Mark Noll
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Some people think it's naive to think we can make love our new bottom line. What I believe is naive is thinking human civilization as…
— Marianne Williamson
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Humankind is able to create new conditions, a new reality. We are not fated to swim forever among the realities that are here now. ...…
— Pramoedya Ananta Toer
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