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All over the world the wildlife that I write about is in grave danger. It is being exterminated by what we call the progress of civilization.
In their meditations, the high priests and priestesses of Atlantis had seen that the Atlantean civilization was going to end cataclysmically.
Listen, I have been educated. I have learned about Western Civilization. Do you know What the message of Western Civilization is? I am alone.
In a culture that gives men irresponsible power and women powerless responsibility, the advancement of civilization cannot be a serious goal.
Further march of civilization seems to employ increasing domination of man over beast, together with a growingly humane method of using them.
America didn’t bypass or escape civilization. It did something far more profound, far cleverer: it simply changed what civilization could be.
America seemed a virgin land waiting for civilization. But Europe had made the wilderness it found; America was not a virgin, she was a widow.
Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing.
It is what you do from now on that will either move our civilization forward a few tiny steps, or else... begin to march us steadily backward.
Has it struck you that the music which is regarded as the most sublime in western civilization, which is the music of Bach, is called baroque?
Capitalism inevitably and by virtue of the very logic of its civilization creates, educates and subsidizes a vested interest in social unrest.
The culture of a civilization is the art and literature through which it rises to consciousness of itself and defines its vision of the world.
In all earlier civilizations, it should be remembered, commerce was treated as a narrow activity and by no means the senior sector in society.
When people come to play music as they do to play bridge, civilization will have taken the longest stride forward since the beginning of time.
We know we need civilization and laws and procedures, but isn't it frustrating? Wouldn't it be great if we could just do what we needed to do?
The human race is doomed to sink back farther and farther into the primitive night ere again it begins its bloody climb upward to civilization.
It is pretty well settled that the city is the Negro's great contribution to civilization, for it was in Africa where the first cities grew up.
The true law of the race is progress and development. Whenever civilization pauses in the march of conquest, it is overthrown by the barbarian.
Civilization has gotten further and further from the so-called 'natural' man, who uses all his faculties: perception, invention, improvisation.
The study of history, it seems to me, leads to the conviction that all important events tend toward the same end - the civilization of mankind.
If there hadn't been women we'd still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends.
Not a single piece of material culture - not a single object - has been found at Giza that can be interpreted to come from a lost civilization.
My theories explain, but cannot slow the decline of a great civilization. I set out to be a reformer, but only became the historian of decline.
The last great struggle for our rights; the battle for our own civilization, is entirely with ourselves, and the problem is to be solved by us.
I consider that there are different degrees of civilization and there are many different ways of expressing it. But one is civilized or is not.
Where civilization entailed the corruption of barbarian virtues and the creation of dependent people, I decided, I was opposed to civilization.
specialists without spirit, sensualists without heart; this nullity imagines that it has attained a level of civilization never before achieved.
Induction makes you feel guilty for getting something out of nothing, and it is artificial, but it is one of the greatest ideas of civilization.
I think of myself as a kind of reporter; I report on the nature of certain events. I think of art as a report on civilization at a certain time.
Roman civilization had achieved, within the bounds of its technology, relatively as great a mastery of time and space as we have achieved today.
Human civilization as we know it is like the Titanic headed for the iceberg, whether the iceberg be nuclear, environmental or terrorism-related.
It will take a long time, and certainly the West will remain the dominant civilization well into the next century, but the decline is occurring.
Women know the damnation of charity because the habit of civilization has always been to throw them cheap alms rather than give them good wages.
Western civilization, unfortunately, does not link knowledge and morality but rather, it connects knowledge and power and makes them equivalent.
we came to realize that a civilization which rode roughshod over the way of life of other peoples was incorporating evil in its own way of life.
People get upset when Baghdad, the "Cradle of Civilization" is burning, or when the Buddhas in Afghanistan are falling. These are real concerns.
Western civilization is, no doubt, predominantly on the side of secular relativism. That is not true in the Islamic world, where faith dominates.
The transaction between writer and reader is human civilization's most dazzling feat, yet it's such a part of our lives that it's, well, prosaic.
Barbarianism is the natural state of mankind. Civilization is unnatural. It is the whim of circumstance. And barbarianism must ultimately triumph
A writer is justly called 'universal' when he is understood within the limits of his civilization, though that be bounded by a country or an age.
Accommodation to change, the thoughtful pursuit of alternative futures are keys to the survival of civilization and perhaps of the human species.
I think fundamentalism is this radical attitude toward one's own identity and civilization as compared to other people's identities and cultures.
Because the Western civilization is dominated by dualistic thinking, holistic scientists and philosophers don't get the recognition they deserve.
When I was young I used to read about the decline of Western civilization, and I decided it was something I would like to make a contribution to.
Perhaps the two most valuable and satisfactory products of American civilization are the librarian on the one hand and the cocktail in the other.
It's women who have embraced their own sexuality, it's why women wear makeup, it's why they wear high heels. It's what civilization is all about.
A society based on Christian principles provides for pluralism, but with enough restrictions to prevent civilization from degenerating into chaos.
There were 5 Exabytes of information created between the dawn of civilization through 2003, but that much information is now created every 2 days.
The point of civilization is to be civilized; the purpose of action is to perpetuate society, for only in society can philosophy truly take place.
We have always been taught that navigation is the result of civilization, but modern archeology has demonstrated very clearly that this is not so.