Civilization Quote by Ronald Wright Download Open image “If civilization is to survive, it must live on the interest, not the capital, of nature.” — Ronald Wright ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Civilization Interest Nature
The earth is a fickle place for all life, not least the human project of civilization. — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
I do not believe that civilizations have to die because civilization is not an organism. It is a product of wills. — Arnold J. Toynbee Copy Share Image
If civilization is going to survive, business and policy-makers must move on, to find within themselves more developed emotions than fear or greed. — Anita Roddick Copy Share Image
If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships - the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The sum of the whole matter is this - our civilization cannot survive materially unless it be redeemed spiritually. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Since, in the long run, every planetary civilization will be endangered by impacts from space, every surviving civilization is obliged to become spacefaring--not because… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“Civilization is an experiment, a very recent way of life in the human career, and it has a habit of walking into what I… — Ronald Wright Copy Share Image
“The islanders, they write: carried out for us the experiment of permitting unrestricted population growth, profligate use of resources, destruction of the environment and… — Ronald Wright Copy Share Image
Like most problems with technology, pollution is a problem of scale. The biosphere might have been able to tolerate our dirty old friends coal… — Ronald Wright Copy Share Image
“John Steinbeck once said that socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily… — Ronald Wright Copy Share Image
“In times of war or crisis, power is easily stolen from the many by the few on a promise of security. The more elusive… — Ronald Wright Copy Share Image
Like all creatures, humans have made their way in the world by trial and error. Unlike other creatures we have a presence so colossal… — Ronald Wright Copy Share Image
America seemed a virgin land waiting for civilization. But Europe had made the wilderness it found; America was not a virgin, she was a… — Ronald Wright Copy Share Image
“Soon after man shows up in new lands, the big game starts to go missing. […] A bad smell of extinction follows Home sapiens… — Ronald Wright Copy Share Image
“Even today, some opt for the comforts of mystification, preferring to believe that the wonders of the ancient world were built by Atlanteans, gods,… — Ronald Wright 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