Quotes About Civilization

The fundamental reality of any civilization must be its geographical cradle. Geography dictates its vegetational growth and lays down often impassable frontiers. Civilizations are regions, zones not merely as anthropologists understand them when they talk about the zone of the two-headed axe or the feathered arrow; they are areas which both confine man and undergo constant change through his efforts.

Une civilisation 'seconde': comme le christianisme a hérité de l'Empire romain qu'il prolonge, l'Islam se saisira, à ses débuts, du Proche-Orient, l'un des plus vieux, peut-être le plus vieux carrefour d'hommes et de peuples civilisés qui soit au monde.

L'Islam, durant le printemps de son expansion, ne fait que rendre vie à l'antique civilisation orientale (...). Il s'agit là d'une civilisation solide e édifiée sur des régions fort riches, auprès desquelles l'Arabie fait très pauvre figure.

L'apogée, la splendeur de l'Islam se situent entre VIIIème et XIIème siècles. Mais la perte très dangereuse de vitesse n'a guère commencé pour lui qu'avec le XVIIIème siècle, c'est-à-dire, à l'échelle lente des civilisations.

Un des signes les plus sûrs des pays que touche vraiment l'unité de la civilisation musulmane reste la langue. Cette langue qui fut autrefois le ciment de l'Islam, l'arabe 'littéral', le XXème siècle l'a préservée; elle est la langue écrite commune, celle qu'emploient les journaux, les livres. Les langues nationales ne sont que des langues parlées.

L'humanisme de la Renaissance se présente comme le dialogue de Rome avec Rome, de la Rome païenne avec la Rome du Christ, de la civilisation antique avec la civilisation chrétienne. Assurément, l'un des plus riches dialogues - jamais interrompu - qu'ait connu l'Occident.

L'Église a dû faire face constamment à cette déchristianisation régulière, monotone qui n'est souvent que vulgaire décivilisation.

Nous entendons par unités brillantes, les rencontres, les unissons qui donnent à la civilisation européenne, sur le plan le plus élevé de la culture, du goût et de l'esprit, une allure fraternelle, presque uniforme, comme si elle était envahie par une seule et même lumière.

La civilisation musulmane, comme l'occidentale, est une civilisation dérivée, du second degré, pour reprendre la terminologie d'Alfred Weber. Elle ne s'est pas édifiée à partir d'une table rase, mais sur le tuf de cette civilisation bigarrée et très vivante qui l'a précédée dans le Proche-Orient.

México, país civilizado, sólo matan lo preciso. Aquí no. Ve el cafre que maneja a un peatón cruzando la calle, y en vez de disminuir la velocidad acelera. Salta la liebre porque salta o se va a rendirle cuentas a Dios. Por eso viejos aquí casi no hay. En Colombia los viejos mueren jóvenes.

Today an educated, civilized society is turning its face while thousands of unborn babies are being killed. God Himself, if not history, will judge this greater holocaust.

We are the most informed people in the history of civilization—and yet the most confused. Though our heads are crammed with knowledge, our hearts are empty.

The Pilgrims . . . put their ideals ahead of all material considerations. It is not surprising that the Pilgrims had little and succeeded, while we have much and are in danger of failing. No civilization can make progress unless some great principle is generously mixed into the mortar of its foundations in life.

It has always been a mark of decaying civilizations to become obsessed with sex. When people lose their way, their purpose, their will, and their goals, as well as their faith . . . they go "a whoring." It is a form of diversion that requires no thought, no character, and no restraint.

Ancient historians tell us that one of the symptoms of a declining civilization is a desexualization of the human race, with men becoming more effeminate and women becoming more masculine, not only in physical [appearance] but in their basic characters.

The Garden of Eden was somewhere in present-day Iraq. The turmoil and war [we are witnessing] in that part of the world . . .is occurring in the land where God established the first perfect civilization.

Man is not growing better! Man is not climbing upward. Instead of progress in man himself there is degeneracy—degeneracy of body, mind, and spirit. Man is going downhill.

On Friday night, my dad wants to have a family activity. so we go ice-skating. It's me and my mom and my dad and my sister. It's like we're all together. It's like a beautiful dream. It's like the Disney Channel. Except that my dad and I hate each other. And my mom hates herself. And my sister is humiliated by the bunch of us. And I'm secretly waiting for the inevitable devastation of our entire civilization. But except for that.

The Foundation of Empire is Art & Science Remove them or Degrade them & the Empire is No More.

I assume I disappeared on my round-the-world flight?" "Yes," Ivar said. Earhart gave a sad smile. "I think I disappeared in every timeline. Would have been nice to know I made it in one of them. That event seems to be a constant, except for those where civilization didn't survive long enough to invent the airplane." She shook her head. "A different timeline is a different world, even though it's still Earth.

What you call extravagance is really comfort, pleasure and polish, which the lower orders learn from the aristocracy, and so grow civilised themselves. I have heard from very liberal people that there must be classes in society that cultivate science, art and refined manners — first, so that others may take living examples from them, and then to provide encouragement for noble actions.

No white American ever thinks that any other race is wholly civilized until he wears the white man's clothes, eats the white man's food, speaks the white man's language, and professes the white man's religion.

In all my teaching I have watched carefully the influence of the tooth-brush, and I am convinced that there are few single agencies of civilization that are more far-reaching.

but no white American ever thinks that any other race is wholly civilized until he wears the white man's clothes, eats the white man's food, speaks the white man's language, and professes the white man's religion.