Civilization Quote by Jacob Needleman Download Open image “When thought races ahead of Being, a civilization is racing towards destruction.” — Jacob Needleman ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Civilization Destruction Race Racing Racism
When a civilization, a race, a people, a society, when they lack love, they are soon destroyed. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“The race is now on between the technoscientific and scientific forces that are destroying the living environment and those that can be harnessed to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Destruction is easily reversed, Brain drainage howbeit is a civilization killer” — A.M.M Alusi Copy Share Image
Civilization is a hopeless race to discover remedies for the evils it produces. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
So, at one extreme you have indigenous, tribal societies trying to stem the race to disaster. At the other extreme, the richest, most powerful… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Civilization is nothing else but the attempt to reduce force to being the last resort. — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
The word civilization to my mind is coupled with death. When I use the word, I see civilization as a crippling, thwarting thing, a… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Civilization has run on ahead of the soul of man, and is producing faster than he can think and give thanks. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We are born for meaning, not pleasure, unless it is pleasure that is steeped in meaning. — Jacob Needleman Copy Share Image
Why has time disappeared in our culture? How is it that after decades of inventions and new technologies devoted to saving time and labor,… — Jacob Needleman Copy Share Image
If one steps out on a starry night and observes one's inner state, one asks if one could hate or be overwhelmed by envy… — Jacob Needleman Copy Share Image
Life is not so much defined by the external situation as it is by the internal one. — Jacob Needleman Copy Share Image
“This is the mark of great ideas: they unify people and they also act to unify the disparate parts of the human being; they… — Jacob Needleman Copy Share Image
Our modern world-view tragically misperceives and wrongly defines what it is to be human. We are conditioned by our society to believe happiness comes… — Jacob Needleman Copy Share Image
For the growing number of people seeking to approach the ideas of Gurdjieff, Toward Awakening by Jean Vaysse offers reliable guidance, as well as… — Jacob Needleman Copy Share Image
The problem of money dogs our steps throughout the whole of our lives, exerting a pressure that, in its way, is as powerful and… — Jacob Needleman Copy Share Image
What is [the role of money] in the search for meaning? Is our relationship to it one of the chief factors that keeps us… — Jacob Needleman Copy Share Image
“Remember how long you have been putting these things off, and how often you have received an opportunity from the gods and have not… — Jacob Needleman Copy Share Image
As my personal explorations continued, I experienced this quality of inner reality more and more and could no longer doubt that the meaning of… — Jacob Needleman Copy Share Image
To love my neighbor is to assist the arising and unfolding in him of that which can harmonize the real elements of his nature. — Jacob Needleman 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
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