Civilization Quotes - Page 10

By suppressing differences and peculiarities, by eliminating different civilizations and cultures, progress weakens life and favors death

Art is a staple of mankind... So urgent, so utterly linked with the pulse of feeling that it becomes the singular sign of life when every other aspect of civilization fails.

Arab civilization has collapsed. It won’t recover in my lifetime.

Let's face it - think of Africa, and the first images that come to mind are of war, poverty, famine and flies. How many of us really know anything at all about the truly great ancient African civilizations, which in their day, were just as splendid and glorious as any on the face of the earth?

Just as any moron can destroy a priceless Ming vase, so the shallow and ill-educated people who run our schools can undermine and destroy from within a great civilization that took centuries of dedicated effort to create and maintain.

Western civilization is a loaded gun pointed at the head of this planet.

It is impossible to overlook the extent to which civilization is built upon a renunciation of instinct.

The ultimate test of any civilization is how we treat the most vulnerable... what we do to our children. Our world has lost its direction.

The decline and fall of a civilization is barely noticed by most of its citizens.

Civilizations are not remembered by their business people, their bankers or lawyers. They're remembered by the arts.

Style is about the choices you make to create the aspects of civilization that you wish to uphold.

We might as well expect to grow trees from leaves as hope to build up a civilization or a manhood without taking into consideration our women and the home life made by them, which must be the root and ground of the whole matter. Let our girls feel that we expect something more of them than that they merely look pretty and appear well in society. Teach them that there is a race with special needs which they and only they can help; that the world needs and is already asking for their trained, efficient forces.

Handwriting is civilization's casual encephalogram.

Present-Day Wickedness, Apostasy and Modern Civilization Cannot Prevent Revival.

The first light of human consciousness and the world's first civilizations were in Africa.

Hospitals are only an intermediate stage of civilization, never intended ... to take in the whole sick population. May we hope that the day will come ... when every poor sick person will have the opportunity of a share in a district sick-nurse at home.

Civilization is based on a clearly defined and widely accepted yet often unarticulated hierarchy. Violence done by those higher on the hierarchy to those lower is nearly always invisible, that is, unnoticed. When it is noticed, it is fully rationalized. Violence done by those lower on the hierarchy to those higher is unthinkable, and when it does occur is regarded with shock, horror, and the fetishization of the victims.

Peace is the most covetable possession on the earth. It is the greatest treasure in all the universe. Peace is the most important and indispensable factor for all growth and development. It is in the tranquility and quiet of the night that the seed slowly sprouts from under the soil. The bud opens in the depth of the most silent hours. So also, in a state of peace and love, people evolve, grow in their distinctive culture, and develop perfect civilization.

The boundary between civilization and barbarism is difficult to draw: put one ring in your nose and you are a savage, put two rings in your ears and you are civilized.

The time has come to choose a new direction of global development, to opt for a new civilization.

In our civilization, men are afraid that they will not be men enough and women are afraid that they might be considered only women.

Humankind is able to create new conditions, a new reality. We are not fated to swim forever among the realities that are here now. ... Everything that is worthwhile in human civilization has not only originated from but has been inspired by dreams, by imagination.

The new meaning of soul is creativity and mysticism. These will become the foundation of the new psychological type and with him or her will come the new civilization.

Violence is not necessary to destroy a civilization. Each civilization dies from indifference toward the unique values which created it.

When you look on one of your contemporary 'good copies' of historical remains, ask yourself the question: Not what style, but in what civilization is this building? And the absurdity, vulgarity, anachronism and solecism of the modern structure will be revealed to you in a most startling fashion.