Culture Quote by Edward Abbey Download Open image ““Civilization flows; culture thickens and coagulates, like tired, sick, stifled blood.”” — Edward Abbey ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Culture
“Only look about you: blood is being spilt in streams, and in the merriest way, as though it were champagne. Take the whole of… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Moribund cultures are fertile fields for fearful, fatalistic worldviews.” — Vishal Mangalwadi Copy Share Image
“When civilization is strong and widespread enough, "culture" will appear and take care of itself.” — John Lukacs Copy Share Image
“civilization has made mankind if not more bloodthirsty, at least more vilely, more loathsomely bloodthirsty.” — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
“Civilization is but a thin veneer stretched across the passions of the human heart. And civilization doesn't just happen; we have to make it… — Bill Moyers Copy Share Image
“Culture in the broadest sense includes all the labor which human power expends on nature.” — Herman Bavinck Copy Share Image
“Civilization is a thin veil over our savage selves, easily lifted by some for personal glorification.” — Lilo Abernathy Copy Share Image
“We believe that the health of a culture is measured in part by the vigor with which its immune system responds to nonsense.” — Paul R. Gross Copy Share Image
“In its broad sense, civilization means not only comfort in daily necessities but also the refining of knowledge and the cultivation of virtue so… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Destruction is easily reversed, Brain drainage howbeit is a civilization killer” — A.M.M Alusi Copy Share Image
“When your empire grows out of soil fertilized with the blood of a people, it must sustain its power with their continued bloodshed.” — Luvvie Ajayi Copy Share Image
A man could be a lover and defender of the wilderness without ever in his lifetime leaving the boundaries of asphalt, powerlines, and right-angled… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Except for the scale of the operation, there was nothing unusual about Hitler's massacre of the Jews. Genocide's an old tradition, as human as… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
By the age of eighteen, a human has acquired enough joy and heartache to provide the food of reflection for a century. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“Our institutions are too big; they represent not the best but the worst characteristics of human beings. By submitting to huge hierarchies of power,… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
No man-made structure in all of American history has been hated so much, by so many, for so long, with such good reason, as… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Where all pretend to be thinking alike, it's likely that no one is thinking at all. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“But why, the questioner insists, why do people like you pretend to love uninhabited country so much? Why this cult of wilderness? Why the… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Civilization is a youth with a molotov cocktail in his hand. Culture is the Soviet tank or L.A. cop that guns him down. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
All revolutions have failed? Perhaps. But rebellion for good cause is self- justifying -- a good in itself. Rebellion transforms slaves into human beings,… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“Me, I'm living under a sword too, as Jack may have told you. An old wino's disease, which could lay me in the grave… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions. Life is plurality, death is uniformity. By suppressing differences and… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
Philosopher is a dictator who modifies accepted standards with his thoughts. — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
A lot of indigenous cultures are deeply involved in working with ancestor spirits, elemental spirits, and demons. Many of these cultures feel that, if… — Daniel Pinchbeck Copy Share Image
In the hearing world, I'm constantly having to lip-read and trying to understand what's going on. Sign language is so beautiful. It gives you… — Rose Ayling-Ellis Copy Share Image
I was born and raised in Orlando, where the economy and culture has been powerfully shaped by tourism, and so I've long been interested… — Laura van den Berg Copy Share Image
Our times demand the declaration of the world's resources as the common heritage of all people. — Jacque Fresco Copy Share Image
The U.S.-Mexican border es un herida abierta where the Third World grates against the first and bleeds. And before a scab forms it hemorrhages… — Gloria E. Anzaldúa Copy Share Image
What it comes down to for me is this: Will the technologies of communication in our culture, serve to enlighten us and help us… — Roger Waters Copy Share Image
I think it's useful to experience other types of dance and other cultures, and the life of a classical dancer these days is certainly… — Deborah Bull Copy Share Image
In the movie, the stars above the ship bear no correspondence to any constellations in a real sky. Worse yet, while the heroine bobs...… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
It is not my intention to explain Turkey, its culture and its problems. My literature has a universal concern: I want to bring people… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
I don't think the distinction between high and low culture exists anymore. — Jeremy Scott Copy Share Image
