Alan Watts Quotes, Technology Quotes, Civilization Quotes

...the materialism of modern civilization is paradoxically founded on a hatred of materiality, a goal-oriented desire to obliterate all natural limits through technology, imposing an abstract grid over nature.

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Their whole life depends on spending money, and now they’ve got none to spend. That’s our civilization and our education: bring up the masses to depend entirely on spending money, and then the money gives out.

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The physician...is the flower (such as it is) of our civilization.

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There have been summits of civilization at which heretics like Socrates , who was killed because he was wiser than his neighbors, have not been tortured, but ordered to kill themselves in the most painless manner known to their judges. But from that summit there was a speedy relapse into our present savagery.

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English civilization rests largely upon tea and cricket, with mighty spurts of enjoyment on Derby Day, and at Newmarket.

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In the vastness of the Cosmos there must be other civilizations far older and more advanced than ours.

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Civilization does everything for the mind and favors it entirely at the expense of the body.

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In a living society every day is a day of judgment; and its recognition as such is not the end of all things but the beginning ofa real civilization.

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Is a civilization worth the name, which requires, for its existence the very doubtful prop of a racial legislation and a lynch law?

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Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , Law Quotes , Civilization Quotes

The pulpit and the press have many commonplaces denouncing the thirst for wealth, but if men should take these moralists at their word, and leave off aiming to be rich, the moralists would rush to rekindle at all hazards this love of power in the people, lest civilization should be undone.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Men Quotes , Civilization Quotes

Poets in our civilization, as it exists at present, must be difficult...The poet must become more and more comprehensive, more allusive, more indirect, in order to force, to dislocate if necessary, language into its meaning.

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Coal lay in ledges under the ground since the Flood, until a laborer with pick and windlass brings it to the surface. We may well call it black diamonds. Every basket is power and civilization. For coal is a portable climate.

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Modern civilization is so complex as to make the devotional life all but impossible. It wears us out by multiplying distractions and beats us down by destroying our solitude, where otherwise we might drink and renew our strength before going out to face the world again.

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As long as our civilization is essentially one of property, of fences, of exclusiveness, it will be mocked by delusions.

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We live only to discover beauty. All else is a form of waiting

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Any government that chooses to be an ally of terror has also chosen to be an enemy of civilization.

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The sum of the whole matter is this - our civilization cannot survive materially unless it be redeemed spiritually.

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Only world law can assure progress towards a civilized peaceful community.

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Let us get together with other people of our sort and make over the world into a great world-civilization that will enable us to realize the promises and avoid the dangers of this new time.

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Tags : H. G. Wells Quotes , Civilization Quotes , People Quotes

The universal regard for money is the one hopeful fact in our civilization.

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