Civilization Quote by Maude Meagher Download Open image “Civilization has developed executive powers far beyond its understanding.” — Maude Meagher ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Civilization Executive power Executives Understanding
The future of this business is far beyond the vision of any of us. — Thomas Watson, Jr Copy Share Image
Civilization, after all, is defined by what we forbid, more than what we permit. — Gregory David Roberts 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
Civilization is nothing more than the effort to reduce the use of force to the last resort. — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
Civilization is the limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Civilizations can only be understood by those who are civilized. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
dreams must not take the place of actual life, nor constitute themselves a cowardly escape from it, but become rather a sanctuary in which… — Maude Meagher Copy Share Image
Dreams are only the image of outward things shown on an inward mirror. But the mirror is the soul's enclosing darkness. — Maude Meagher Copy Share Image
creative thought seems prone to flower in symbols before it ripens to fruit. — Maude Meagher Copy Share Image
There is a special blessing in old clothes, and that aside from their comfort, for which especially they are to be cherished. They confer… — Maude Meagher 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
