#civil

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The Industrial Revolution was another of those extraordinary jumps forward in the story of civilization.


Stephen Gardiner


#civilization #extraordinary #forward #industrial #industrial revolution

Instead of isolating our school and our many subjects from the every day world, we intend to plant it not merely in the French capital, but in what for next summer at least will be the focal point, the capital of the entire civilized world.


Patrick Geddes


#civilized #civilized world #day #entire #every

Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty ones.


Katharine Fullerton Gerould


#advance #civilization #merely #nasty #nicer

Peace on earth would mean the end of civilization as we know it.


Joseph Heller


#earth #end #know #mean #peace

Television is not vulgar because people are vulgar; it is vulgar because people are similar in their prurient interests and sharply differentiated in their civilized concerns.


George Gilder


#civilized #concerns #differentiated #interests #people

You've got to forget about this civilian. Whenever you drop bombs, you're going to hit civilians.


Barry Goldwater


#bombs #civilian #civilians #drop #forget

I have had much experience with the unclean and uncivilized in the recent past. Shall I tell you what I discovered? I am not the state of my feet. I am not the dirt on my hands or the hygiene of my private parts. If I were these things, I would not have been at liberty to pray at any time since my arrest. But I did pray, because I am not these things. In the end, I am not even myself. I am a string of bones speaking the word God.


G. Willow Wilson


#religion #spirituality #experience

Something must be radically wrong with a culture and a civilisation when its youth begins to desert it. Youth is the natural time for revolt, for experiment, for a generous idealism that is eager for action. Any civilisation which has the wisdom of self-preservation will allow a certain margin of freedom for the expression of this youthful mood. But the plain, unpalatable fact is that in America today that margin of freedom has been reduced to the vanishing point. Rebellious youth is not wanted here. In our environment there is nothing to challenge our young men; there is no flexibility, no colour, no possibility for adventure, no chance to shape events more generously than is permitted under the rules of highly organised looting. All our institutional life combines for the common purpose of blackjacking our youth into the acceptance of the status quo; and not acceptance of it merely, but rather its glorification.


Harold Edmund Stearns


#adventure #america #civilization #desertion #emigration

The civil unrest of recent days must come to an end, and the healing process must begin for the future of the community. We will provide assistance both in ending the violence and enabling the healing process in Benton Harbor.


Jennifer Granholm


#begin #both #civil #come #community

The construction of civilizational difference is not exclusive in any simple sense. The de-essentialization of Islam is paradigmatic for all thinking about the assimilation of non-European peoples to European civilization. The idea that people's historical experience is inessential to them, that it can be shed at will, makes it possible to argue more strongly for the Enlightenment's claim to universality: Muslims, as members of the abstract category "humans," can be assimilated or (as some recent theorist have put it) "translated" into a global ("European") civilization once they have divested themselves of what many of them regard (mistakenly) as essential to themselves. The belief that human beings can be separated from their histories and traditions makes it possible to urge a Europeanization of the Islamic world. And by the same logic, it underlies the belief that the assimilation to Europe's civilization of Muslim immigrants who are--for good or for ill--already in European states is necessary and desirable.


Talal Asad


#eurabia #europe #european #islam #modernity-tags-civilization