#civilization

Without adventure civilization is in full decay. ↗

— Alfred North Whitehead

#civilization #decay #full #without

I've managed to dodge the curse. Not all my family have. Of course, music helped me - music is all about civilization, about something worthwhile. It's all about ideas. ↗

— Gordon Getty

#civilization #course #curse #dodge #family

The city is the nerve center of our civilization. It is also the storm center. ↗

— Josiah Strong

#center #city #civilization #nerve #our

Barbarism is needed every four or five hundred years to bring the world back to life. Otherwise it would die of civilization. ↗

— Edmond de Goncourt

#barbarism #bring #civilization #die #every

How a society treats its disabled is the true measure of a civilization. ↗

— Chen Guangcheng

#disabled #how #measure #society #treats

I believe that what we are fighting here is not just a small group of people who have hijacked a religion, but it is a civilization bent on destroying ours. ↗

— Tom Tancredo

#bent #civilization #destroying #fighting #group

Civilization is a failure. We need to think what we can do together in love and peace. ↗

— Serj Tankian

#failure #love #need #peace #think

I am studying ancient civilizations, trying to find what happened to them, finding out why they went into a decline, why they died. ↗

— L. Ron Hubbard

#ancient #civilizations #decline #died #find

Triumphant science and technology are only at the threshold of man's command over sources of energy so stupendous that, if used for military purposes, they can wipe out our entire civilization. ↗

— Cordell Hull

#command #energy #entire #man #military

The true civilization is where every man gives to every other every right that he claims for himself. ↗

— Robert Green Ingersoll

#claims #every #every man #gives #himself