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“Had the Hebrews not been disturbed in their progress a thousand and more years ago, they would have solved all the great problems of civilization which are being solved now under all the difficulties imposed by the spirit of the Middle Ages.”

Years Problem Age Spirit Progress Middle Civilization Thousand Years Ago Difficulty Middle Ages Disturbed Hebrew

Author:Isaac Mayer Wise

“The problem here is that a civilization that is 1,000 light years away doesn't know we exist. They don't know that we have radio telescopes here on Earth because they see Earth as it was 1,000 years ago. Nothing can travel faster than light, so however good their instruments they can't see in affect the future. So there is no particular reason they should be sending us messages at this time.”

Knows Should Years Reason Problem Light Earth Particular Civilization Messages Years Ago Instruments Radio Faster Telescopes Light Years

Author:Paul Davies

“We could tell them [alien civilization] things that we have discovered in the realm of mathematical physics, but there is stuff that I would like to know. There are some famous problems like how to bring gravitation and quantum physics together, the long-sought-after theory of quantum gravity. But it may be hard to understand the answer that comes back.”

Knows May Long Hard Problem Together Stuff Answers Theory Civilization Physics Aliens Mathematical Realms Gravity Quantum Quantum Physics Gravitation

Author:Paul Davies

“Unless we realize that the essence of Nazism is also an attempt to solve a universal problem of Western civilization - that of the industrial society - and that the basic principles on which the Nazis base this attempt are also in no way confined to Germany, we do not know what we fight for or what we fight against... The war is being fought for the structure of industrial society - its basic principles, its purposes, and its institutions.”

“There will be no room, here, for the smug myopia which views American civilization as the final solution to all world problems; which recommends our institutions for universal adoption and turns away with contempt from the serious study of the institutions of peoples whose civilizations may seem to us to be materially less advanced.”

World May Problem Seems Turns Rooms Views Study Serious Civilization Solutions Universal Institutions Finals Contempt Adoption World Problems Myopia

Author:George F. Kennan

“The colored woman of to-day occupies, one may say, a unique position in this country. In a period of itself transitional and unsettled, her status seems one of the least ascertainable and definitive of all the forces which make for our civilization. She is confronted by both a woman question and a race problem.”

May Country Problem Seems Force Race Position Periods Civilization Unique Racism

Book:The Voice of Anna Julia Cooper: Including A Voice from the South and Other Important Essays, Papers, and Letters

Source: The Voice of Anna Julia Cooper: Including A Voice from the South and Other Important Essays, Papers, and Letters

“In their overestimation of the role of civilization, the humanists misunderstand the primary forces of the world of primitive human drives with their untamable violence. With their optimistic view of the role of culture, they (the humanists) trivialize the terrifying, hardly solvable problems of mass hatred and of the great passionate psychoses of the human race.”

World Humans Problem Hate Humanity Culture Force Views Race Roles Violence Civilization Mass Hatred Passionate Optimistic Primaries Human Race Primitive Psychosis Great Passion

Author:Stefan Zweig

“To speak specifically of our problem with the Muslim world, we are meandering into a genuine clash of civilizations, and we're deluding ourselves with euphemisms. We're talking about Islam being a religion of peace that's been hijacked by extremists. If ever there were a religion that's not a religion of peace, it is Islam.”

Ifs World Problem Speak Talking Civilization Islam Genuine Clash Extremist Euphemism Muslim World Clash Of Civilizations

Author:Sam Harris

“When Western civilization invaded the Near and Far East and what is now called the Third World it imposed its own ideas of a proper environment and a rewarding life. Doing this, it disrupted the delicate patterns of adaptation and created problems that had not existed before.”

World Ideas Problem Environment Civilization Thirds Western Patterns East Delicate Adaptation Third World Western Civilization Near And Far

Book:Conquest of Abundance: A Tale of Abstraction Versus the Richness of Being

Source: Conquest of Abundance: A Tale of Abstraction Versus the Richness of Being

“The problem with water, though, is that the shortfalls don't show up until the very end. You can go on pumping unsustainably until the day you run out. Then all you have is the recharge flow, which comes from precipitation. This is not decades away, this is years away. We're already seeing huge shortages in China, where the Yellow River runs dry for part of each year. The Yellow River is the cradle of Chinese civilization. It first failed to reach the sea in 1972, and since 1985 it's run dry for part of each year. For 1997 it was dry for 226 days.”

Years Firsts Ends Shows Problem Running Water Seeing Sea Huge Goes On Civilization Flow Rivers Environmental China Decades Chinese Dry Yellow Cradle Shortage

Author:Lester R. Brown

“The idea of a group of elders is that, in past civilizations, they have linked worlds; the other world was also present in this one. There is also the argument that elders have "experience." The problem is that experience teaches fear of change. Experience kills imagination. Experience makes people conservative. What we are facing tomorrow requires the force of imagination, not wisdom from yesterday.”

People World Ideas Problem Past Force Imagination Teach Groups Tomorrow Civilization Argument Conservative Yesterday Linked Elders Other Worlds Fear Of Change

Author:Jacques Yves Cousteau

“I do not think there is such a thing as a "clash of civilizations." When I say that Muslims as Muslims cannot be represented in the West, I was being ironic, and also referring to the fact that ninety percent of the time when people talk about "the problem of Muslims" in the West, it is to complain about the fact that Muslims have not "integrated."”

People Thinking Facts Problem Civilization Percent West Complaining Ironic Ninety Clash Integrated Referring Clash Of Civilizations

Author:Talal Asad

“The same failure of liberalism is evident in Western Europe, where the dogma of multiculturalism has left a secular Europe very slow to address the looming problem of religious extremism among its immigrants. The people who speak most sensibly about the threat that Islam poses to Europe are actually fascists. To say that this does not bode well for liberalism is an understatement: It does not bode well for the future of civilization.”

“Among the illusions which have invested our civilization is an absolute belief that the solutions to our problems must be a more determined application of rationally organized expertise... The reality is that our problems are largely the product of that application.”

Problem Reality Belief Risk Products Civilization Solutions Illusion Absolutes Management Determined Organized Application Expertise Risk Management

Author:Voltaire

“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.”

Problem Together Forget Pieces Civilization Skills Western Contemporary Splits Smallest Components Back Together Western Civilization Together Again Back Together Again Dissection

Author:Alvin Toffler

“The problem with the press is that they can't tell the difference between a bicycle crash and the end of civilization.”

Ends Problem Differences Civilization Presses Crash Bicycle

Author:George Bernard Shaw

“Cars are the most central thing in America, in a lot of ways. They've probably influenced the way we live more than anything else, and yet every really big problem - whether it's the environment or who dictates the international economy because of oil - is all tied to cars. Ultimately, cars are bad for civilization. I don't know if they'll end us.”

Ifs Knows Way Ends Problem Bigs America Economy Environment Car Civilization International Oil Tied Big Problems

Author:Chuck Klosterman

“If during their education our youths become alienated from their language, history, ancestors, culture and civilization, it means there is a very serious educational problem there.”

Ifs Mean Problem Culture Language Education Youth Serious Civilization Educational Ancestor

Author:Recep Tayyip Erdogan

“The Earth faces environmental problems right now that threaten the imminent destruction of civilization and the end of the planet as a livable world. Humanity cannot afford to waste its financial and emotional resources on endless, meaningless quarrels between each group and all others. there must be a sense of globalism in which the world unites to solve the real problems that face all groups alike.”

Source: I, Asimov: A Memoir

“The people of Iran have been battling against consecutive conflicts between tradition and modernity for over 100 years... some have tried and are trying to see the world through the eyes of their predecessors and to deal with the problems and difficulties of the existing world by virtue of the values of the ancients... many others...seek to go forth in step with world developments and not lag behind the caravan of civilization, development and progress.”

“Having come into contact with a civilization which has over-emphasized the freedom of the individual, we are in fact faced with one of the big problems of Africa in the modern world. Our problem is just this: how to get the benefits of European society - benefits that have been brought about by an organization based upon the individual - and yet retain African's own structure of society in which the individual is a member of a kind of fellowship.”

World Kind Has Beens Facts Problem Bigs Individual Modern Civilization Members Benefits Organization Structure Contact Modern World Fellowship Big Problems Julius

Author:Julius Nyerere

“The longer I live and the more I study the question, the more I am convinced that it is not so much the problem of what you will do with Negro, as what the Negro will do with you and your 'civilization'.”

Problem Study Civilization Convinced

Book:Black-belt Diamonds: Gems from the Speeches, Addresses, and Talks to Students of Booker T. Washington ...

Source: Black-belt Diamonds: Gems from the Speeches, Addresses, and Talks to Students of Booker T. Washington ...

“With enough money and international coordination, we can push incoming asteroids out of Earth's path. We might even be able to bring back extinct animals in the lab. The problem really isn't scientific - it's cultural. We aren't yet able to coordinate ourselves as a global civilization to do something simple like bring food to a famine-stricken region. We can actually use current satellite technologies to predict where famine will strike next, but we can't get food there - usually for political reasons.”

“The main problem is that we, as an Earth civilization, have not come to understand ourselves - see ourselves in a cosmic sense at all.”

Problem Earth Civilization Cosmic

Author:Edgar Mitchell

“People are willing to throw our civilization under the bus to discredit the existing system, without any proposed solution to the problems that they're willing to pointing at.”

People Problem Willing Civilization Solutions Bus Pointing Discredit

Author:Jay Roach

“Since the main problem that American, the Afro- Americans have is a lack of cultural identity. It is necessary to teach [people] that they had some type of identity, culture, civilization before they were brought here.”

People Problem Culture Teach Identity Type Civilization Afros Cultural Identity

Author:Malcolm X

“One of the biggest problems of our contemporary civilization is that there's been an interruption of transmission. People have no past in their present.”

People Problem Past Civilization Contemporary Interruptions Transmission

Author:Eugene Green

“We will see that the greatest problem confronting civilization is not merely religious extremism: rather, it is the larger set of cultural and intellectual accommodations we have made to faith itself.”

Made Problem Religion Religious Civilization Intellectual Atheist Extremism Confronting Religious Extremism Accommodations

Book:The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason

Source: The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason

“The problem I want to talk to you about tonight is the problem of belief. What does it mean to believe? We use this word all the time, and I think behind it lurk some really extraordinary taboos and confusions. What I want to argue tonight is that how we talk about belief- how we fail to criticize or criticize the beliefs of others, has more importance to us personally, more consequence to us personally and to civilization than perhaps anything else that is in our power to influence.”

Thinking Want Believe Mean Doe Use Problem Belief Behinds Failing Atheism Influence Civilization Consequence Importance Extraordinary Atheist Arguing Confusion Tonight Criticize Taboo

Author:Sam Harris

“The state of our civilization manifests itself both in the non-problems that terrify us beyond all reason - rising sea levels - and in the real problems we pay no heed to [population decline]...In reality, much of the planet will be uninhabited long before it's uninhabitable”

Long Real States Reason Problem Reality Levels Pay Sea Planets Civilization Population Rising Decline Heed Real Problems

Author:Mark Steyn

“Resort to science has rendered modern war so destructive of life and property that it presents a new problem to mankind, such, that unless our civilization shall find some means of making an end to war, war will make an end to our civilization.”

Mean War Ends Problem Modern Mankind Civilization Property Destructive Resorts Modern War

Book:America and World Peace

Source: America and World Peace

“Every mode of transport that we use - whether it's planes, trains, automobiles, bikes, horses - is reusable, but not rockets. So we must solve this problem in order to become a space-faring civilization.”

Use Problem Inspiration Motivation Order Space Technology Civilization Horse Train Solve Planes Bike Rockets Automobile Transport

Author:Elon Musk

“We must ask whether our machine technology makes us proof against all those destructive forces which plagued Roman society and ultimately wrecked Roman civilization. Our reliance - an almost religious reliance - upon the power of science and technology to forever ensure the progress of our society, might blind us to some very real problems which cannot be solved by science and technology.”

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