Civilization Quote by Abe Kōbō Download Open image ““One measure of a civilization, in fact, is the percentage of misfits in its society.”” — Abe Kōbō ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Civilization Society Survival
“A nation’s level of civilization can be measured by the way it treats its oldest and weakest citizens.” — Hendrik Groen Copy Share Image
“The first measure of any civilization is how it deals with its trash.” — Micah R. Sisk Copy Share Image
“The true test of civilization is not the census, nor the size of the cities, nor the crops – no, but the kind of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I have heard it said that the measure of a civilization is how it treats those who have hurt it. I think a further… — Mark Goulston Copy Share Image
“Civilization is the ability to share what makes us similar in the respect of what makes us different.” — Dario de Judicibus Copy Share Image
“A civilization must be judged by its standards not by its expenditure.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
The measure of a civilization is how it treats those at the dawn of life, the margins of life and the twilight of life. — Hubert H. Humphrey Copy Share Image
The measure of civilization in a people is to be found in its just appreciation of the wrongfulness of war. — Arthur Helps Copy Share Image
“Our civilization is first and foremost a civilization of means; in the reality of modern life, the means, it would seem, are more important… — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
“We're all just moments and most of us don't matter. We study less than one percent of all humanity in our history books.” — Emily Lloyd-Jones Copy Share Image
“Also, a large swath of our intellectual culture is loath to admit that there could be anything good about civilization, modernity, and Western society.” — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
“Moreover, how effective can it possibly be for an individual to assert his autonomy [jishusei] when encountering a reality in which even his personal… — Abe Kobo Copy Share Image
“The dial of the clock wears out unevenly; Most worn Is the area round eight. As it is stared at with abrasive glances unfailingly… — Abe Kōbō Copy Share Image
“If animal history has been a history of evolution, then the history of mankind is one of retrogression. Hooray for monsters! Monsters are the… — Abe Kōbō Copy Share Image
“There wasn't a single item of importance [in the newspaper]. A tower of illusion, all of it, made of illusory bricks and full of… — Abe Kōbō 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
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