Quotes by Civilization The age in which we live can only be characterized as one of barbarism. Our civilization is in the process not only of being militarized, but also being brutalized. Alva Myrdal process age civilization The world generally speaking is now drifting on a more and more devastating course towards the absurd target of extermination - or rather, to be more exact - of the northern hemisphere's towns, fields, and the people who have developed our civilization. Alva Myrdal target civilization people Architecture belongs to culture, not to civilization. Alvar Aalto architecture civilization culture A new civilization is emerging in our lives, and blind men everywhere are trying to suppress it. Alvin Toffler trying men civilization The political technology of the Industrial age is no longer appropriate technology for the new civilization taking form around us. Our politics are obsolete. Alvin Toffler political technology civilization Humanity faces a quantum leap forward. It faces the deepest social upheaval and creative restructuring of all time. Without clearly recognizing it, we are engaged in building a remarkable new civilization from the ground up. This is the meaning of the Third Wave. Alvin Toffler creative humanity civilization One of the most highly developed skills in contemporary Western civilization is dissection: the split -up of problems into their smallest possible components. We are good at it. So good, we often forget to put the pieces back together again. Alvin Toffler together-again skills civilization By challenging anthropocentricism and temporal provincialism, science fiction throws open the whole of civilization and its premises to constructive criticism. Alvin Toffler criticism challenges civilization Many countries today have begun the transition from an industrial wealth system and civilization to a knowledge-based system - without appreciating that a new wealth system is impossible without a corresponding new way of life. Alvin Toffler appreciate civilization country In the name of a greater civilization, we curse those who for the sake of their ambitious dreams, brought about the massacre of so many young lives. No matter how brutal the crime, you will always get glorification of its heroism and tradition from the eunuchs of bourgeois culture. Amadeo Bordiga names dream civilization But once we recognize that many ideas that are taken to be quintessentially Western have also flourished in other civilizations, we also see that these ideas are not as culture-specific as is sometimes claimed. We need not begin with pessimism, at least on this ground, about the prospects of reasoned humanism in the world. Amartya Sen taken civilization ideas SAUCE, n. The one infallible sign of civilization and enlightenment. A people with no sauces has one thousand vices; a people with one sauce has only nine hundred and ninety-nine. For every sauce invented and accepted a vice is renounced and forgiven. Ambrose Bierce ninety-nine food civilization NOISE, n. A stench in the ear. Undomesticated music. The chief product and authenticating sign of civilization. Ambrose Bierce music silence civilization An immaterial but visible being that inhabited the air when the air was an element and before it was fatally polluted with factory smoke, sewer gas and similar products of civilization. Ambrose Bierce elements air civilization Civilization is very fragile, all it takes is a few decades of chaos for us to forget humanity and turn into animals. Our base natures can take over very fast. We can forget that we are sentient beings, with laws and codes and ethics. Amish Tripathi law animal civilization But for me, dinner at a fine restaurant was the ultimate luxury. It was the very height of civilization. For what was civilization but the intellect's ascendancy out of the doldrums of necessity (shelter, sustenance and survival) into the ether of the finely superfluous (poetry, handbags and haute cuisine)? So removed from daily life was the whole experience that when all was rotten to the core, a fine dinner could revive the spirits. If and when I had twenty dollars left to my name, I was going to invest it right here in an elegant hour that couldn't be hocked. Amor Towles ifs-and names civilization Civilization degrades many in order to exalt the few. Amos Bronson Alcott degrade civilization order Civilization degrades the many to exalt the few. Amos Bronson Alcott degrade civilization The moral development of a civilization is measured by the breadth of its sense of community. Anatol Rapoport moral-development community civilization What men call civilization is the condition of present customs; what they call barbarism, the condition of past ones. Anatole France men civilization past «23456789101112»