Quotes by Civilization The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself. Albert Camus purpose writing civilization Europe has lived on its contradictions, flourished on its differences, and, constantly transcending itself thereby, has created a civilization on which the whole world depends even when rejecting it. This is why I do not believe in a Europe unified under the weight of an ideology or of a technocracy that overlooked these differences. Albert Camus europe civilization believe A trial cannot be conducted by announcing the general culpability of a civilization. Only the actual deeds which, at least, stank in the nostrils of the entire world were brought to judgment. Albert Camus deeds trials civilization Our civilization survives in the complacency of cowardly or malignant minds -- a sacrifice to the vanity of aging adolescents Albert Camus vanity sacrifice civilization More and more I come to value charity and love of one's fellow being above everything else...All our lauded technological progress-our very civilization-is like the axe in the hand of the pathological criminal. Albert Einstein love civilization hands A world government with powers adequate to guarantee security is not a remote ideal for the distant future. It is an urgent necessity if our civilization is to survive. Albert Einstein world-government law civilization Imagination is the most powerful force in the universe. Albert Einstein pay-the-price powerful civilization Even on the most solemn occasions I got away without wearing socks and hid that lack of civilization in high boots Albert Einstein fashion boots civilization Only world law can assure progress towards a civilized peaceful community. Albert Einstein community law civilization Nor do I take into account a danger of starting a chain reaction of a scope great enough to Albert Einstein war peace civilization This topic brings me to that worst outcrop of herd life, the military system, which I abhor... This plague-spot of civilization ought to be abolished with all possible speed. Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism -- how passionately I hate them! Albert Einstein hate military civilization ... we will hope that future historians will explain the morbid symptoms of present-day society as the childhood ailments of an aspiring humanity, due entirely to the excessive speed at which civilization was advancing. Albert Einstein childhood humanity civilization Fertility of the soil is the future of civilization. Albert Howard fertility garden civilization The civilization of a country consists in the quality of life that is lived there, and this quality shows plainest in the things that people choose to talk about when they talk together, and in the way they choose to talk about them. Albert J. Nock civilization country people The disastrous feature of our civilization is that it is far more developed materially than spiritually. Its balance is disturbed. Albert Schweitzer disturbed balance civilization Only an ethical movement can rescue us from barbarism, and the ethical comes into existence only in individuals. Albert Schweitzer ethical movement civilization Civilization has so cluttered this elemental man-earth relationship with gadgets and middlemen that awareness of it is growing dim. We fancy that industry supports us, forgetting what supports industry. Aldo Leopold support men civilization Wilderness is the raw material out of which man has hammered the artifact called civilization. Aldo Leopold raw-materials men civilization Wilderness is the raw material out of which man has hammered the artifact called civilization. Wilderness was never a homogenous raw material. It was very diverse. The differences in the product are known as cultures. The rich diversity of the worlds cultures reflects a corresponding diversity. In the wilds that gave them birth. Aldo Leopold differences men civilization Twenty centuries of 'progress' have brought the average citizen a vote, a national anthem, a Ford, a bank account, and a high opinion of himself, but not the capacity to live in high density without befouling and denuding his environment, nor a conviction that such capacity, rather than such density, is the true test of whether he is civilized. Aldo Leopold average civilization science «1234567891011»