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It is the beauty of women, and the fact that they are the focus, that they are sex objects in a positive sense, is the reason we have civilization.
The great question is, can war be outlawed from the world? If so, it would mark the greatest advance in civilization since the Sermon on the Mount.
Business as usual doesn't work, that we're in a time where we have to rethink a lot of the basic ground rules and assumptions of our civilizations.
If civilization is going to survive, business and policy-makers must move on, to find within themselves more developed emotions than fear or greed.
We are in the twilight of this earth. The societies and civilizations of human beings will not endure much longer because of their abuses of power.
Anglo-Saxon civilization has taught the individual to protect his own rights; American civilization will teach him to respect the rights of others.
The human heart as modern civilization has made it is more prone to hatred than to friendship. And it is prone to hatred because it is dissatisfied.
It's an essential fight librarians are making, an age-old fight; yours is a battle for civilization. It's a fight for our country's founding values.
There has never been but one question in all civilization-how to keep a few men from saying to many men: You work and earn bread and we will eat it.
Gorillas are almost altruistic in nature. There's very little if any 'me-itis.' When I get back to civilization I'm always appalled by 'me, me, me.'
It's hard to imagine a civilization without onions; in one form or another their flavor blends into almost everything in the meal except the desert.
Wilderness itself is the basis of all our civilization. I wonder if we have enough reverence for life to concede to wilderness the right to live on?
It was the Law of the Sea, they said. Civilization ends at the waterline. Beyond that, we all enter the food chain, and not always right at the top.
There is a single thread of attitude, a single direction of flow, that joins our present time to its early burgeoning in Mediterranean civilization.
If we were to place our power at the service of our imaginations rather than our primate politics we would create a civilization worthy of the name.
Theory of the true civilization. It is not to be found in gas or steam or table turning. It consists in the diminution of the traces of original sin.
The model of modern Western civilization is the virus: the pure bit of information, which turns its environment into endless reproductions of itself.
Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.
Because our civilization is woven of so many diverse strands, the ideas which any one group accepts will be found to contain numerous contradictions.
The civilization of a state should be measured by the amount of suffering it prevents and the degree of happiness it makes possible for its citizens.
America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization.
In a living society every day is a day of judgment; and its recognition as such is not the end of all things but the beginning ofa real civilization.
A period of high civilization is one in which thoughts fly freely from mind to mind, from one country to another-yes, from the past into the present.
Gorillas are almost altruistic in nature. There's very little if any 'me-itis.' When I get back to civilization, I'm always appalled by 'me, me, me.'
American civilization, from its beginnings, had combined a dogmatic confidence in the future with a naive puzzlement over what the future might bring.
As civilization advances, man grows unconscious of the primitive elements of life; he is separated from them by his perfection of material techniques.
Whether science-and indeed civilization in general-can long survive depends upon psychology, that is to say, it depends upon what human beings desire.
The chickadee and nuthatch are more inspiring society than statesmen and philosophers, and we shall return to these last as to more vulgar companions.
Learning is nothing without cultivated manners, but when the two are combined in a woman, you have one of the most exquisite products of civilization.
Yes, Yes. Indians were the oldest civilization on Earth, the greatest, the best. And only Indians had culture. Others were all dumb nomads and whores.
I am interested in climate change and other topics too. But this thing is so huge, in the worst case we are talking about the end of our civilization.
Elvis Presley is the main founding father of rock music. He was an unheralded genius behind a new music that changed western civilization for all time.
Next to the striking of fire and the discovery of the wheel, the greatest triumph of what we call civilization was the domestication of the human male.
Civilization is to groups what intelligence is to individuals. It is a means of combining the intelligence of many to achieve ongoing group adaptation.
Chastity is the cement of civilization and progress. Without it there is no stability in society, and without it one cannot attain the Science of Life.
There is a single thread of attitude, a single direction of flow, that joins our present time to it's early burgeoning in Mediterranean civilization...
It is the business of future to be dangerous.... The major advances in civilization are processes that all but wreck the societies in which they occur.
The refusal of the British and Russian peoples to accept what appeared to be inevitable defeat was the great factor in the salvage of our civilization.
Of all the works of civilization that interfere with the natural water distribution system, irrigation has been by far the most pervasive and powerful.
The exact measure of the progress of civilization is the degree in which the intelligence of the common mind has prevailed over wealth and brute force.
The freedom enjoyed in Western society under the rule of law and constitutional government explains both the quality of its civilization and its wealth.
If mankind were to continue in other than the present barbarism, a new path must be found, a new civilization based on some other method than technology
The question is whether any civilization can wage relentless war on life without destroying itself, and without losing the right to be called civilized.
One of the biggest problems of our contemporary civilization is that there's been an interruption of transmission. People have no past in their present.
On a group of theories one can found a school; but on a group of values one can found a culture, a civilization, a new way of living together among men.
Of the twenty-two civilizations that have appeared in history, nineteen of them collapsed when they reached the moral state the United States is in now.
I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two-thirds of the people of the earth will be killed.
Discussions of Western civilization are too often confined to works of high art that reflect a relatively narrow element of public taste and experience.
Ethiopians, that is, Negroes, gave the world the first idea of right and wrong and thus laid the basis of religion and all true culture and civilization.
I believe that science is the engine of prosperity, that if you look around at the wealth of civilization today, it's the wealth that comes from science.