#civilization

A civilization which has taken over the world cannot be said to be dying. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

#civilization #dying #over #said #taken

To one who believes that really good industrial conditions are the hope for a machine civilization, nothing is more heartening than to watch conference methods and education replacing police methods. ↗

— Frances Perkins

#civilization #conditions #conference #education #good

AIDS is a global problem and there should be a global solution found by the entire international community. It is really scary to see and imagine our world fall into pieces because we refuse to share and put in the common vestiges of our civilizations. ↗

— Sarah Polley

#because #civilizations #common #community #entire

Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#existence #free #his #laws #man

If any civilization is to survive, it is the morality of altruism that men have to reject. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#any #civilization #men #morality #reject

The line of least resistance in the progress of civilization is to make that theoretical postulate real by the continually increasing force of the world's public opinion. ↗

— Elihu Root

#continually #force #increasing #least #line

Terrorism is a horrible thing that is the great threat to civilization on our planet. ↗

— Walter Isaacson

#great #horrible #our #our planet #planet

Western civilization, Christianity, decency are struggling for their very lives. In this worldwide civil war, race prejudice is our most dangerous enemy, for it is a disease at the very root of our democratic life. ↗

— Mordecai Wyatt Johnson

#civil #civil war #civilization #dangerous #decency

Well, I think, you know, the arts are really what - one of the things that make this country strong. We always think it's our economy or our military power, but in fact, I think it's our culture, our civilization, our ideas, our creativity. ↗

— Caroline Kennedy

#arts #civilization #country #creativity #culture

Patriotism is an indispensable weapon in the defense of civilization against barbarism. ↗

— Bill Kristol

#barbarism #civilization #defense #indispensable #patriotism