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Once we allow ourselves to be disobedient to the test of an accountant's profit, we have begun to change our civilization.
In order for us to have a future that's exciting and inspiring, it has to be one where we're a space-bearing civilization.
Women know what men have long forgotten. The ultimate economic and spiritual unit of any civilization is still the family.
Jesus wept; Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived the grace of present civilization.
Would a NASA reality show "Lunar Shore" be more popular than "Jersey Shore?" Civilization's future depends on that answer.
Our civilization is now in the transition stage between the age of warring empires and a new age of world unity and peace.
Civilization is hideously fragile... there's not much between us and the Horrors underneath, just about a coat of varnish.
Civilization is hideously fragile and there's not much between us and the horrors underneath, just about a coat of varnish.
The enemies of American civilization-- for such are the enemies of slavery-- seem to be more on the alert than its friends.
In civilization, as in a southern latitude, man degenerates at length, and yields to the incursion of more northern tribes.
My goal in life is to change the entire social and economic structure of western civilization, to make it a feminist world.
Certainly none of the advances made in civilization has been due to counterrevolutionaries and advocates of the status quo.
This planet came with a set of instructions, but we seem to have misplaced them. Civilization needs a new operating system.
The cynic, a parasite of civilization, lives by denying it, for the very reason that he is convinced that it will not fail.
It is insane that two men, sitting on opposite sides of the world, should be able to decide to bring an end to civilization.
If human civilization is going to invade the waters of the earth, then let it be first of all to carry a message of respect.
A civilization is not destroyed by wicked people; it is not necessary that people be wicked but only that they be spineless.
At the root of our civilization, there is the freedom of each person of thought, of belief, of opinion, of work, of leisure.
Shall we go on conferring our Civilization upon the peoples that sit in darkness, or shall we give those poor things a rest?
While denial leads to certainty, it is only the certainty of death. This is true for individuals and also for civilizations.
I cannot think that espionage can be recommended as a technique for building an impressive civilization. It's a lout's game.
Civilization, to be worthy of the name, must afford other methods of settling human differences than those of blood letting.
There is no civilization that did not begin with art, Whether it was drawing a line in the sand, painting a cave or dancing.
Dining is the privilege of civilization. . . . The nation which knows how to dine has learnt the leading lesson of progress.
One of the keys to ensuring accountability is to have civil servants who witness fraud, waste and abuse to blow the whistle.
Every civilization is, among other things, an arrangement for domesticating the passions and setting them to do useful work.
We must reject the idea of isolationism, . But that doesn't mean we should get involved in every civil war around the world.
Ideas are the factors that lift civilization. They create revolutions. There is more dynamite in an idea than in many bombs.
John Stockton is one of the true marvels, not just of basketball, or in America, but in the history of Western Civilization!
It was very relaxing to be away from civilization, and this bothered me. I should not have found the loneliness so welcoming.
Our civilization survives in the complacency of cowardly or malignant minds -- a sacrifice to the vanity of aging adolescents
We must, then, apply the principle of Doubt to Civilization; we must doubt its necessity, its excellence, and its permanence.
You cannot organize civilization around the core of militarism and at the same time expect reason to control human destinies.
As the publisher of the 'Tory,' I strive to defend the pillars of Western civilization against the distractions of diversity.
Reached only by boat, seaplane and, with less surety, telephone-this is Fire Island, a pile of sand beneath a pile of people.
Dietary fat, whether saturated or not, is not a cause of obesity, heart disease or any other chronic disease of civilization.
Clearly, a civilization that feels guilty for everything it is and does will lack the energy and conviction to defend itself.
Speech is civilization itself. The word, even the most contradictions word, preserves contact - it is silence which isolates.
A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan.
I am not sure whether ethical absolutes exist. But I am sure that we have to act as if they existed or civilization perishes.
Barbarism is needed every four or five hundred years to bring the world back to life. Otherwise it would die of civilization.
When kids look up to great scientists the way they do to great musicians and actors, civilization will jump to the next level
Our fantastic civilization has fallen out of touch with many aspects of nature, and with none more completely than with night.
Who are we to say what's right for civilizations that were already thousands of years old when our own nation came into being?
The ideal of a single civilization for everyone, implicit in the cult of progress and technique, impoverishes and mutilates us
One civilization after another has been wrecked upon the attempt to secure sufficient leadership from a single group or class.
Lucifer represents life, though, progress, civilization, liberty, independence. Lucifer is the Logos, the Serpent, the Savior.
In fact, the 20th century I think was the most fascinating century and the whole of man civilization because so much happened.
Iraq is no diversion. It is a place where civilization is taking a decisive stand against chaos and terror, we must not waver.
If civilization ever achieves a higher standard of what constitutes normality, it will have been the neurotic who led the way.