George Bernard Shaw Quotes, Civilization Quotes, United States Quotes

I myself have been particularly careful never to say a civil word to the United States. I have scoffed at their inhabitants as a nation of villagers. I have defined the 100 % American as 99 % an idiot. And they adore me.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Civilization Quotes , United States Quotes

Understanding- -like civilization, happiness, music, science and a host of other great endeavors--is not a state of being, but a manner of traveling. This great road has no final destination. The journey itself is the reward.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alan Kay Quotes , Journey 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

This was life! Ah, how he loved it! Civilization held nothing like this in its narrow and circumscribed sphere, hemmed in by restrictions and conventionalities. Even clothes were a hindrance and a nuisance. At last he was free. He had not realized what a prisoner he had been.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Edgar Rice Burroughs Quotes , Civilization Quotes , Clothes Quotes

Civil confusions often spring from trifles but decide great issues.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Aristotle Quotes , Spring Quotes , Civilization Quotes

When the history of civilization is written, it will be a biological history and Margaret Sanger will be its heroine.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : H. G. Wells Quotes , Civilization Quotes , Birth Control Quotes

I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.

5 years ago

Message Copied

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

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.

5 years ago

Message Copied

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

Life creeps slowly upward.... When some forgotten inventor of the older world smote his rival or enemy with a branch of wood and found that it was good and thereafter made a practice of smiting rivals and enemies with branches of wood, then, and on that day, artificiality may be said to have begun. Then, and on that day, was begun a revolution destined to change the history of life. Then, and on that day, was laid the cornerstone of that most tremendous of artifices, CIVILIZATION!

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Jack London Quotes , Practice 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

A good civilisation spreads over us freely like a tree, varying and yielding because it is alive. A bad civilisation stands up and sticks out above us like an umbrella-artificial, mathematical in shape; not merely universal, but uniform.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Civilization Quotes , Tree Quotes

In the long run, the aggressive civilizations destroy themselves, almost always. It's their nature. They can't help it.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Carl Sagan Quotes , Running Quotes , Civilization Quotes

Civilization, in the real sense of the term, consists not in the multiplication, but in the deliberate and voluntary reduction of wants.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , Real Quotes , Civilization Quotes

Security, the chief pretense of civilization, cannot exist where the worst of dangers, the danger of poverty, hangs over everyone's head.

5 years ago

Message Copied

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

To rescue from oblivion even a fragment of a language which men have used and which is in danger of being lost -that is to say, one of the elements, whether good or bad, which have shaped and complicated civilization -is to extend the scope of social observation and to serve civilization.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Victor Hugo Quotes , Men Quotes , Civilization Quotes

You would make a ship sail against the winds and currents by lighting a bonfire under her decks? I have no time for such nonsense.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes , Wind Quotes , Civilization Quotes

You cannot build nonviolence on a factory civilization, but it can be built on self-contained villages.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , Self Quotes , Civilization Quotes

Our flag is a proud flag, and it stands for liberty and civilization. Where it has once floated, there must be no return to tyranny.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Theodore Roosevelt Quotes , Civilization Quotes , Liberty Quotes

The fact is, that civilization requires slaves. Human slavery is wrong, insecure, and demoralizing. On mechanical slavery, on the slavery of the machine, the future of the world depends.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Insecure 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