Quotes About Civilization

There was no doubt about it: the City was the culmination of man's mastery over the environment.

La religión es una de las grandes influencias civilizadoras de la historia

A civilization that is expanding through space will not need our few worlds and will probably be too intellectually advanced to feel the need to batter its way into hegemony here. If, however, we are surrounded by a more lively, a more vibrant civilization, we will wither away by the mere force of the comparison; we will die of the realization of what we have become and of the potential we have wasted.

În lipsa unui computer, o civilizaÅ£ie puternic? poate deveni periculoas?, ÅŸi de aceea e mai bine s? fie distrus?.

Psychohistory, which can predict the fall, can make statements concerning the succeeding dark ages. The Empire, gentlemen, as has just been said, has stood twelve thousand years. The dark ages to come will endure not twelve, but thirty thousand years. A Second Empire will rise, but between it and our civilization will be one thousand generations of suffering humanity. We must fight that.

There have been cases all through Galactic history where isolated planetary systems have reverted to savagery, and what have we learned there? In every case, such savages attribute the to-them-incomprehensible forces of Nature—storms, pestilences, droughts—to sentient beings more powerful and more arbitrary than men.

They couldn't have dropped the bomb for all the Galaxy. If they could have, they would have been large-primate themselves in their manner of thinking, and there are worse things than merely the end of everything.

Our own civilization has a dubious future, and if we can express the reason in brief it is that we find it difficult (perhaps impossible) to cooperate in solving our problems. We are too contentious a species and apparently find our local quarrels to be more important than our overall survival.

Dictatorships, wars, and cruelty drive whole countries to madness. My theory is that the human species was crazy from the very first and that civilization and culture are only enhancing man's insanity. A Tale of Two Sisters

La violencia contra las mujeres es universal y tan antigua como la civilización misma. Cuando se habla de derechos humanos, en la práctica se habla de derechos de los hombres. Si un hombre es golpeado y privado de libertad, es tortura. Si lo mismo soporta una mujer se llama violencia doméstica

Al norte de la ciudad se alza una espectacular construcción, Sacsayhuamán, la fortaleza sagrada, con sus tres hileras de altas murallas zigzagueantes, el Templo del Sol, su laberinto de calles, torreones, andenes, escaleras, terrazas, sótanos y habitaciones, donde vivían con holgura cincuenta o sesenta mil personas. Su nombre significa «halcón satisfecho», y como un halcón vigila el Cuzco.

The General was right. No one dies of hunger here - you reach out your hand and pluck a mango. That's why there is no progress. Cold countries have more advanced civilizations because the climate forces people to work.

Violence against women is universal and as old as civilization. When talking about human right, in truth we're referring to men's rights. If a man is beaten and deprived of his freedom, it's called torture. When a woman endures the same, it's called domestic violence and is still considered a private matter in most of the world.

Le bastaron pocas horas para aprender a respetar a esos indígenas; nada tenían de salvajes, al contrario, eran más civilizados que muchos pueblos de Europa.

Their most notable defect was that they considered work a virtue, even manual labor. They were materialists, conquerors, and they were infused with a messianic enthusiasm for reforming those who did not think as they did; they did not, however, represent an immediate threat to civilization. No

We're becoming a planet of a thousand new major cities. The economy of the 21st century is a city-building economy. It's within our power to make it a carbon zero one, too; and to be blunt, civilization depends on our success.

Clearly, then, the city is not a concrete jungle, it is a human zoo.

If I were starting life over again, I am inclined to think that I would go into the advertising business in preference to almost any other. The general raising of standards of modern civilization among all groups of people during the past half-century would have been impossible without that spreading of the knowledge of higher standards by means of advertising.

When tillage begins, other arts follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of human civilization.

New England is a finished place. Its destiny is that of Florence or Venice, not Milan, while the American empire careens onward toward its predicted end ... it is the first American section to be finished, to achieve stability in the conditions of its life. It is the first old civilization, the first permanent civilization in America.

When you look on one of your contemporary 'good copies' of historical remains, ask yourself the question: Not what style, but in what civilization is this building? And the absurdity, vulgarity, anachronism and solecism of the modern structure will be revealed to you in a most startling fashion.

All the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.

Civilization is nothing more than the effort to reduce the use of force to the last resort.

A civilized society is one that exhibits the five qualities of truth, beauty, adventure, art and peace.