Civilizations Quotes (page 5)

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• opportunity
• right
• willed

Civil Rights opened the windows. When you open the windows, it does not mean that everybody will get through. We must create our own opportunities. Mary Frances Berry

• men
• may
• enough

Civilization exists precisely so that there may be no masses but rather men alert enough never to constitute masses. Georges Bernanos

• sustains
• beings
• canned

Civilization can never be sustainable. Derrick Jensen

• peace
• thinking
• together

Civilization is a failure. We need to think what we can do together in love and peace. Serj Tankian

• stratosphere
• wrecked
• planet

Civilization... wrecks the planet from seafloor to stratosphere. Richard Bach

• skin
• barbarity
• masquerade

Civilization is the lamb's skin in which barbarism masquerades. Thomas Bailey Aldrich

• distance
• manly
• civil

Civilization is the distance man has placed between himself and his excreta. Brian Aldiss

• attitude
• respect
• men

Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men. Jane Addams

• him
• culture
• hand

Civilization is a youth with a molotov cocktail in his hand. Culture is the Soviet tank or L.A. cop that guns him down. Edward Abbey

• god
• humanity
• past

In God's scheme what is a few billion years here and there. Perhaps there have come and gone a dozen human civilizations in the past billion years that we know nothing about. And after this civilization we are living in destroys itself, it will all start up again in a million years when the planet has all its messes cleaned up. Then, finally, one of these civilizations, say five billion years from now, will last because people treat each other the way they ought to. Leon Uris

• people
• education
• walking

I could tell Hugo was convinced that he would get to walk back up these stairs: after all, he was a civilized person. These were all civilized people. Hugo really couldn't imagine that anything irreparable could happen to him, because he was a middle-class white American with a college education, as were all the people on the stairs with us. I had no such conviction. I was not a wholly civilized person. Charlaine Harris

• humanity
• quality
• greatness

What you of the CHOAM directorate seem unable to understand is that you seldom find real loyalties in commerce ... Men must want to do things of their own innermost drives. People, not commercial organisations or chains of command, are what make great civilizations work, every civilization depends upon the quality of the individuals it produces. If you overorganize humans, over-legalize them, suppress their urge to greatness? they cannot work and their civilization collapses. Frank Herbert

• personality
• love
• character

Nobody knew literature and history better than these people, nobody could write better Russian than they, nobody despised our times more profoundly. For these characters civilization meant more than daily bread and a nightly hug. This wasn’t, as it would seem, another lost generation. This was the only generation of Russians that had found itself, for whom Giotto and Mandelstam were more imperative than their own personal destinies. Poorly dressed yet somehow still elegant…broken, growing... Joseph Brodsky

• history
• may
• greek

All civilization comes through literature now, especially in our country. A Greek got his civilization by talking and looking, and in some measure a Parisian may still do it. But we, who live remote from history and monuments, we must read or we must barbarise. William Dean Howells

• sorry
• be nice
• commitment

The two main criminals are France and the United States. They owe Haiti enormous reparations because of actions going back hundreds of years. If we could ever get to the stage where somebody could say, 'We're sorry we did it,' that would be nice. But if that just assuages guilt, it's just another crime. To become minimally civilized, we would have to say, 'We carried out and benefited from vicious crimes. A large part of the wealth of France comes from the crimes we committed against Haiti,... Noam Chomsky