Quotes About Civilization

Soon there will be such a horrifying gap between the rich and the poor that chaos will break out and another great civilization will collapse.

History proves that great civilizations collapse when the gap between the haves and have-nots is too great. Sadly, America is on that same course because we haven't learned from history. We only memorize historical dates and names, not the lesson." "Aren't prices supposed to go up?

History proves that great civilizations collapse when the gap between the haves and have-nots is too great.

War was a hellish, horrible hideous thing - too horrible and hideous to happen in the twentieth century between civilised nations.

All America lies at the end of the wilderness road, and our past is not a dead past, but still lives in us. Our forefathers had civilization inside themselves, the wild outside. We live in the civilization they created, but within us the wilderness still lingers. What they dreamed, we live, and what they lived, we dream. —T. K. Whipple, Study Out the Land

If I'd have wanted civilization I'd have stayed in Tennessee and wrote poetry for a living

That's one of the only things I look forward to about an evening like this, you know -someone to drink tea with at the end of it. For all I know, the whole point of civilization is to provide one with someone to drink tea with at the end of an evening. Otherwise you have no one with whom to talk over whatever may have happened during the evening. Dinner parties are often more fun to talk about than they are to attend - at least they aren't complete until they've been discussed.

The level of civilization in Texas definitely wasn't very high if the old man was an example of it.

All America lies at the end of the wilderness road, and our past is not a dead past, but still lives in us. Our forefathers had civilization inside themselves, the wild outside. We live in the civilization they created, but within us the wilderness still lingers. What they dreamed, we live, and what they lived, we dream.

It's very difficult for a black man to get out of South-Central Los Angeles, and get out civilized....The only men I know who have escaped, all began reading Robert Heinlein at age ten.

Dune; Nova; Double Star; The Corridors of Time; Cat's Cradle; Half Past Human; Murder in Retrospect; Gideon's Day; The Red Right Hand; The Trojan Hearse; A Deadly Shade of Gold; Conjure Wife; Rosemary's Baby; Silverlock; King Conan. He'd packed books not to entertain, nor even to illustrate philosophies of life, but to rebuild civilization.

A civilization has the ethics it can afford. We

Heat is produced as a waste product of civilization. I

All were looking for enclaves of civilization. None had thought to build his own.

Skyscrapers, said Speaker. With so much room on the Ringworld, why build so tall? To prove they can do it. No, that's asinine, said Louis. There'd be no point, if they could build something like the Ringworld itself. Perhaps the tall buildings came later, during the decline of civilization.

All civilizations at some time have fallen into this total terror, when the mystery of life was a kind of panic only to be assuaged by the spilling of blood.

All our civilization is based on invention; before invention, men lived on fruits and nuts and pine cones and slept in caves.

Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.

One might say that science itself, and civilization and art, are all about different orderings of the world - to contain it, and to make it in some sense intelligible, communicable. And bearable.

Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years.

You know how to split atoms, how to send explorers to the moon, how to splice genes, but you don't know how people ought to live.

Taken over the centuries, scientific ideas have exerted a force on our civilization fully as great as the more tangible practical applications of scientific research.

In this respect, the history of science, like the history of all civilization, has gone through cycles.

Many of our ideas of democracy, so much of our literature and philosophy and science can be traced back to roots right here in Athens.