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Isn't the only hope for the planet that the industrialized civilizations collapse? Isn't it our responsibility to bring this about?
Seriously, 'Honey Boo Boo' is the decay of Western civilization. Just because so many people watch the show doesn't mean it's good.
Is a civilization worth the name, which requires, for its existence the very doubtful prop of a racial legislation and a lynch law?
If I had to fault President [Barack] Obama, I would say that sometimes governs like a visitor from a morally superior civilization.
What feminism calls patriarchy is simply civilization , an abstract system designed by men but augmented and now co-owned by women.
Technique has taken over the whole of civilization. Death, procreation, birth all submit to technical efficiency and systemization.
To be thoroughly lazy is a tough job, but somebody has to do it. Industrious people build industry. Lazy people build civilization.
Liberty is the condition of progress. Without Liberty, there remains only barbarism. Without Liberty, there can be no civilization.
We're a planet of nearly six billion ninnies living in a civilization that was designed by a few thousand amazingly smart deviants.
I am studying ancient civilizations, trying to find what happened to them, finding out why they went into a decline, why they died.
Personally, my interests are ancient history and ancient civilizations. In my own life, I'd like to go to places like Easter Island.
Poetry is one of the essential structures of civilization - carrying myth, ritual, 'tales of the tribe' and the essence of language.
Each new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little barbarians, who must be civilized before it is too late.
What do I consider a teacher should be? One who breathes life into knowledge so that it takes new form in progress and civilization.
Our flag is a proud flag, and it stands for liberty and civilization. Where it has once floated, there must be no return to tyranny.
If you see, in the spectrum of a planet host star, strange chemical elements, it can be a signal from a civilization which is there.
Human civilization is not something achieved against nature; it is rather the outcome of the working of the innate qualities of man.
But the center can be a harmful place for one who has lived so long on the edge.... Normality is the Great Neurosis of civilization.
To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level.
A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values.
Is Europe a home for an alliance of civilizations or is it a Christian club? If the former is true, then Turkey should be part of it.
The Battle of France is over. The Battle of Britain is about to begin. Upon this battle depends the future of Christian civilisation.
Burning all the fossil fuels will destroy the planet we know, Creation, the planet of stable climate in which civilization developed.
While the farmer holds the title to the land, actually, it belongs to all the people because civilization itself rests upon the soil.
Mankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell.
The role of religions in the domination and destruction of African civilizations was ruthless... Islam was as guilty as all the rest.
I believe with all my heart that civilization has produced nothing finer than a man or woman who thinks and practices true tolerance.
There is in reality no such thing as modern art. Art is carried on up and down in immense cycles through centuries and civilizations.
The Jews always complained, kvetching about false gods, and erected the biggest false God, Jehovah, in middle of western civilization.
No civilization is complete which does not include the dumb and defenseless of God's creatures within the sphere of charity and mercy.
For such an advanced civilization as ours to be without images that are adequate to it is as serious a defect as being without memory.
The greatest task before civilization at present is to make machines what they ought to be, the slaves, instead of the masters of men.
I'm more into human nature than politics. But they're intertwined. Obviously, I live in civilization, so politics are part of my life.
This is the reality of nuclear weapons: they may trigger a world war; a war which, unlike previous ones, destroys all of civilization.
Judeo-Christian revelation is not the negative influence secularists proclaim it to be. Rather, it is the taproot of our civilization.
Every mob, in its ignorance and blindness and bewilderment, is a League of Frightened Men that seeks reassurance in collective action.
Practical application is found by not looking for it, and one can say that the whole progress of civilization rests on that principle.
The main problem is that we, as an Earth civilization, have not come to understand ourselves - see ourselves in a cosmic sense at all.
There is something silly about grown men and women striving to reduce their vision of themselves and of civilization to bean counting.
That amid our highest civilization men faint and die with want is not due to the niggardliness of nature, but to the injustice of man.
By vulgarity I mean that vice of civilization which makes man ashamed of himself and his next of kin, and pretend to be somebody else.
If a test of civilization be sought, none can be so sure as the condition of that half of society over which the other half has power.
Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years.
My book had a universal theme. It's not a "racial" novel. It portrays an aspect of civilization, not necessarily Southern civilization.
When you can’t do something truly useful, you tend to vent the pent up energy in something useless but available, like snappy dressing.
The destruction that barbarians leave behind has a grim fascination, doesn't it? We're reminded how thin is the veneer of civilization.
The reverence for the Scriptures is an element of civilization, for thus has the history of the world been preserved, and is preserved.
The whole of our civilization is founded on specialization, which implies the enslavement of those who execute to those who coordinate.
My idea of our civilization is that it is a shoddy, poor thing and full of cruelties, vanities, arrogances, meannesses and hypocrisies.
In the last analysis civilization itself is measured by the way in which children will live and what chance they will have in the world