Civilization Quote by John Boyd Orr Download Open image “The history of our civilization has been one of intermittent war.” — John Boyd Orr ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Civilization Culture History War
War has been with us ever since the dawn of civilization. Nothing has been more constant in history than war. — Robert Aumann Copy Share Image
History is one war after another with a bunch of murders and natural disasters in between. — Sarah Vowell Copy Share Image
History is a record of perpetual wars, but we are now trying to make new history. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
War is one of the constants of history, and it has not diminished with civilization or democracy. — Will Durant Copy Share Image
“War is one of the constants of history, and has not diminished with civilization or democracy. In the last 3,421 years of recorded history… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
History is cyclical, and it would be foolhardy to assume that the culture wars will never return. — Frank Rich Copy Share Image
Whatever fosters the growth of civilization works at the same time against war. — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Now, I believe that war is never inevitable until it starts, but there has been a great proclivity in human history, and including in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Though the general principles of statecraft have survived the rise and fall of empires, every increase in knowledge has brought about changes in the… — John Boyd Orr Copy Share Image
It is said that those whom the gods wish to destroy they first make mad. It may well be that a war neurosis stirred… — John Boyd Orr Copy Share Image
Our civilization is now in the transition stage between the age of warring empires and a new age of world unity and peace. — John Boyd Orr Copy Share Image
When the Industrial Revolution of the nineteenth century brought a rapid increase in wealth, the demand of workers for a fair share of the… — John Boyd Orr Copy Share Image
There can be no peace in the world so long as a large proportion of the population lack the necessities of life and believe… — John Boyd Orr Copy Share Image
In the last fifty years science has advanced more than in the 2,000 previous years and given mankind greater powers over the forces of… — John Boyd Orr Copy Share Image
We are now physically, politically, and economically one world and nations so interdependent that the absolute national sovereignty of nations is no longer possible. — John Boyd Orr Copy Share Image
Some think the worst horrors of war might be avoided by an international agreement not to use atomic bombs. This is a vain hope. — John Boyd Orr Copy Share Image
Empires won by conquest have always fallen either by revolt within or by defeat by a rival. — John Boyd Orr Copy Share Image
Measured in time of transport and communication, the whole round globe is now smaller than a small European country was a hundred years ago. — John Boyd Orr Copy Share Image
After the First World War the economic problem was no longer one of production. It was the problem of finding markets to get the… — John Boyd Orr Copy Share Image
In recent times, European nations, with the use of gunpowder and other technical improvements in warfare, controlled practically the whole world. One, the British… — John Boyd Orr 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
“The voice in the head that never stops speaking becomes a civilization that is obsessed with form and therefore knows nothing of the most… — Eckhart Tolle 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
