Civilization Quote by Helen Clark MacInnes Download Open image “Civilization is a perishable commodity.” — Helen Clark MacInnes ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Civilization Commodity Culture
If civilization is to survive, it must live on the interest, not the capital, of nature. — Ronald Wright Copy Share Image
If we are to preserve civilization, we must first remain civilized. — Louis St. Laurent Copy Share Image
Civilization is the limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Humanity stands ... before a great problem of finding new raw materials and new sources of energy that shall never become exhausted. In the… — Svante Arrhenius Copy Share Image
one doesn't measure friendship by length of time only; depth of time is just as valuable. — Helen Clark MacInnes Copy Share Image
Life to most Greeks may be either tragic or comic or a mixture of both; but one thing it never is - and that… — Helen Clark MacInnes Copy Share Image
Nihilists expend everything and everyone except themselves. They are the indispensable men, without whom the world might try to live almost happily. — Helen Clark MacInnes Copy Share Image
Men who use terrorism as a means to power, rule by terror once they are in power. — Helen Clark MacInnes Copy Share Image
Just remember enough never to be vulnerable again: total forgetting could be as self-destructive as complete remembering. — Helen Clark MacInnes Copy Share Image
The sad discovery of the adult world was the permanent truth: you don't always do what you want to do; you do what you… — Helen Clark MacInnes Copy Share Image
The mind is more vulnerable than the stomach, because it can be poisoned without feeling immediate pain. — Helen Clark MacInnes Copy Share Image
And it's the educated barbarian who is the worst: he knows what to destroy. — Helen Clark MacInnes 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
Sentiment is the mightiest force in civilization; not sentimentality, but sentiment. Women will bring this into politics. Home, sweet home, is as powerful on… — Judith Ellen Foster Copy Share Image
Violence is not necessary to destroy a civilization. Each civilization dies from indifference toward the unique values which created it. — Nicolas Gomez Davila Copy Share Image
We released 400,000 classified documents, the most extraordinary history of a war to ever have been released in our civilization. Those documents cover 109,000… — Julian Assange Copy Share Image
Wine is one of the most civilized things in the world and one of the most natural things of the world that has been… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Whenever we touch nature we get clean. People who have got dirty through too much civilization take a walk in the woods, or a… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
The invention of gunpowder and the constant improvement of firearms are enough in themselves to show that the advance of civilization has done nothing… — Carl von Clausewitz Copy Share Image
Another success is the post-office, with its educating energy augmented by cheapness and guarded by a certain religious sentimentin mankind; so that the power… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“The mission is, not to replace old world mindlessness with new world mindlessness, but to put an end to all forms of brainless authoritarianism.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
We are somehow the children of the planet, we are somehow its finest hour; we bind time, we bind the past, we anticipate the… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Our civilization, bequeathed to us by fierce adventurers, eaters of meat and hunters, is so full of hurry and combat, so busy about many… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
Coal lay in ledges under the ground since the Flood, until a laborer with pick and windlass brings it to the surface. We may… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
