#civilization

We are all afraid for our confidence, for the future, for the world. That is the nature of the human imagination. Yet every man, every civilization, has gone forward because of its engagement with what it has set itself to do. ↗

— Jacob Bronowski

#because #civilization #confidence #engagement #every

The last struggle for our rights, the battle for our civilization, is entirely with ourselves. ↗

— William Wells Brown

#civilization #entirely #last #our #ourselves

Anglo-Saxon civilization has taught the individual to protect his own rights; American civilization will teach him to respect the rights of others. ↗

— William Jennings Bryan

#anglo-saxon #civilization #him #his #individual

Progress in civilization has been accompanied by progress in cookery. ↗

— Fannie Farmer

#been #civilization #cookery #progress

Surely by now there can be few here who still believe the purpose of government is to protect us from the destructive activities of corporations. At last most of us must understand that the opposite is true: that the primary purpose of government is to protect those who run the economy from the outrage of injured citizens. ↗

— Derrick Jensen

#government #civilization

I believe empathy is the most essential quality of civilization. ↗

— Roger Ebert

#empathy #civilization

The global industrial economy is the engine for massive environmental degradation and massive human (and nonhuman) impoverishment. ↗

— Derrick Jensen

#entropy #environmental-degradation #global-industrial-economy #impoverishment #economy

Back through the ages of barbarism and civilization, in all tongues, we find this instinctive pleasure in the imitative action that is the very essence of all drama. ↗

— George P. Baker

#ages #back #barbarism #civilization #drama

It is only through books that we partake of the great harvest that is human civilization across the ages. ↗

— Ibrahim Babangida

#ages #books #civilization #great #harvest

The papacy again, representing the traditional unity of European civilization, has also shown itself unable to limit effectively the push of nationalism. ↗

— Irving Babbitt

#also #civilization #effectively #european #itself