Oscar Wilde Quotes, Civilization Quotes, Progress Quotes

Each little thing that we do passes into the great machine of life which may grind our virtues to powder and make them worthless, or transform our sins into elements of a new civilization, more marvelous and more splendid than any that has gone before.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Civilization Quotes , Progress Quotes

Is one of the fairest portions of the globe to remain in a state of nature, the haunt of a few wretched savages, when it seems destined by the Creator to give support to a large population and to be the seat of civilization?

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : William Henry Harrison Quotes , Civilization Quotes , Giving Quotes

We should lay aside every hindrance and endeavour by uniting the whole force and spirit of our people to raise again a great British nation standing up before all the world; for such a nation, rising in its ancient vigour, can even at this hour save civilization.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Winston Churchill Quotes , Civilization Quotes , People Quotes

It has been well said that tea is suggestive of a thousand wants, from which spring the decencies and luxuries of civilization.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Agnes Repplier Quotes , Spring Quotes , Civilization Quotes

The only method compatible with our notions of civilization and the race is to prevent the breeding of the unfit by sterilization and the deliberate guidance of the mating instinct. [...] The trend of opinion among eugenists is that we must make marriage more difficult. Certainly no one who is not a desirable parent should be permitted to produce progeny.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Nikola Tesla Quotes , Race Quotes , Civilization Quotes

It is not for nothing, either, that the umbrella has become the very foremost badge of modern civilization--the Urim and Thummim of respectability. . . . So strongly do we feel on this point, indeed, that we are almost inclined to consider all who possess really well-conditioned umbrellas as worthy of the Franchise.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes , Civilization Quotes , Modern Quotes

This civilization is such that one has only to be patient and it will be self-destroyed.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , Self Quotes , Civilization Quotes

From the days of Weishaupt to those of Karl Marx... this world-wide conspiracy for the overthrow of civilization and for the reconstitution of society... has been steadily growing.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Winston Churchill Quotes , Civilization Quotes , World Quotes

Who would have predicted a century ago that the richest civilizations in history would be made up of polluted tracts of suburban development dominated by the private automobile, shopping malls, and a throwaway economy? Surely, this is not the ultimate fulfillment of our destiny.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alan Thein Durning Quotes , Destiny Quotes , Civilization Quotes

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.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Real Quotes , Civilization Quotes

Even on the most solemn occasions I got away without wearing socks and hid that lack of civilization in high boots

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Albert Einstein Quotes , Fashion Quotes , Civilization Quotes

Civilization is a natural and inevitable consequence - whether good or evil I am not prepared to state.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Robert E. Howard Quotes , Civilization Quotes , Evil Quotes

The saddest object in civilization, and to my mind the greatest confession of its failure, is the man who can work, who wants work, and who is not allowed to work.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes , Men Quotes , Civilization Quotes

Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Winston Churchill Quotes , Civilization Quotes , Political Quotes

Sunday is the core of our civilization, dedicated to thought and reverence.

5 years ago

Message Copied

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

Unless we stop dumping 70 million tons of global warming pollution into the atmosphere every 24 hours, which we are doing right now ... the continued acceleration of this pollution would destroy the future of human civilization.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Al Gore Quotes , Civilization Quotes , Atmosphere Quotes

If the lives of men can be measured in terms of years, ideologies in decades, and nations in centuries, then the unit measuring civilizations, born of the interaction among peoples, would be the millennium.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Abdelaziz Bouteflika Quotes , Men Quotes , Civilization Quotes

Among the illusions which have invested our civilization is an absolute belief that the solutions to our problems must be a more determined application of rationally organized expertise... The reality is that our problems are largely the product of that application.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Voltaire Quotes , Reality Quotes , Civilization Quotes

The truest test of civilization, culture and dignity is character and not clothing.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , Character Quotes , Civilization Quotes

Morals are not the important thing-nor enlightenment-nor civilization. A man can do absolutely well without them, but he can't do without something to eat. The supremest thing is the need of the body, not of the mind and spirit.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Men Quotes , Civilization Quotes