#civilization

Civilizations can only be understood by those who are civilized. ↗

— Alfred North Whitehead

#civilized #only #those #understood #who

Government has never increased the standard of living of one single human being in civilization's history. For some reason that simple truth has evaded everybody. ↗

— Steve Wynn

#civilization #everybody #government #history #human

I feel this is very important for us to have serene buildings because our civilization is chaotic as it is, you see; our whole machine age has brought about a chaos that has to be somehow counterbalanced, I think. ↗

— Minoru Yamasaki

#age #because #brought #buildings #chaos

Iran is a country of 80 million people, educated and dynamic. It sits astride a crucial part of the world. It cannot be sanctioned and pressed down forever. It is the last great civilization to sit outside the global order. ↗

— Fareed Zakaria

#cannot #civilization #country #crucial #down

Classes struggle, some classes triumph, others are eliminated. Such is history; such is the history of civilization for thousands of years. ↗

— Mao Zedong

#classes #eliminated #history #others #some

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

Hold fast to the Bible. To the influence of this Book we are indebted for all the progress made in true civilization and to this we must look as our guide in the future. ↗

— Ulysses S. Grant

#book #civilization #fast #future #guide

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

Slavery is the first step towards civilization. In order to develop it is necessary that things should be much better for some and much worse for others, then those who are better off can develop at the expense of others. ↗

— Alexander Herzen

#better off #civilization #develop #expense #first