To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man. —Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. More about this quote Tags: certainty doubt principles civilization civilized Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
You can't say that civilization don't advance, however, for in every war they kill you in a new way. —Will Rogers More about this quote Tags: war death killing civilization Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Civilization is the process of reducing the infinite to the finite. —Oliver Wendell Holmes More about this quote Tags: knowledge certainty infinite civilization Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
This increasingly intelligent, fast-moving civilization needs to be applying some of its intelligence to things that change slowly. . . . If we are constantly tending to the immediate, day-to-day problems, we'll lose that sense of the long term, and then we could be really sorry. —Stewart Brand More about this quote Tags: intelligence time perception perspective change civilization Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
A civilization which tends to concentrate wealth and power in the hands of a fortunate few, and to make of others mere human machines, must inevitably evolve anarchy and bring destruction. —Henry George More about this quote Tags: power destruction luck wealth civilization machines anarchy Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Probably no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both. —Abraham Flexner More about this quote Tags: war choice nations wealth civilization Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would fully suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, senseless brutality, deplorable love-of-country stance, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action! It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder. —Albert Einstein More about this quote Tags: war heroism morality music violence patriotism killing murder civilization Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Making weapons is what we know how to do best, the supreme achievement of late-twentieth-century American civilization. To this blessed work we assign our finest intellect and the largest share of our treasure, and in the magnificence of an aircraft carrier or a cruise missile we find our moral and aesthetic equivalent of the Sistine ceiling and Chartres Cathedral. —Lewis Lapham More about this quote Tags: weapons morality achievement America civilization missiles Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Art is like a border of flowers along the course of civilization. —Lincoln Steffens More about this quote Tags: art flowers civilization Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I'm optimistic about the future, but not about the future of this civilization. I'm optimistic about the civilization which will replace this one. —James Baldwin More about this quote Tags: optimism future civilization Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I think God's going to come down and pull civilization over for speeding. —Steven Wright More about this quote Tags: God humor civilization speed Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Civilization degrades the many to exalt the few. —Amos Bronson Alcott More about this quote Tags: civilization Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
When several villages are united in a single complete community, large enough to nearly or quite self-sufficing, the state comes into existence, originating in the bare needs of life, and continuing in existence for the sake of a good life. —Aristotle More about this quote Tags: civilization Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Underlying the whole scheme of civilization is the confidence men have in each other, confidence in their integrity, confidence in their honesty, confidence in their future. —Bourke Cockran More about this quote Tags: civilization Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
We must remember that any oppression, any injustice, any hatred, is a wedge designed to attack our civilization. —Franklin D. Roosevelt More about this quote Tags: civilization Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email