“We must seek support in the moral values that have ensured the progress of our civilization. Honesty and hard work, responsibility and faith in our strength are bound to bring us success. There should be no place for despondency. The crisis can and must be fought by uniting our intellectual, spiritual and material resources.” ShouldHardSpiritualValuesResponsibilityMoralHistoryPowerSupportProgressHonestyMaterialsHard WorkCivilizationIntellectualResourcesEconomicsCrisisBoundsDebtSocialismTaxationMoral ValuesUnitingDespondency Author:Vladimir Putin
“It is a characteristic of any decaying civilization that the great masses of the people are unconscious of the tragedy. Humanity in a crisis is generally insensitive to the gravity of the times in which it lives. Men do not want to believe their own times are wicked, partly because it involves too much self-accusation and principally because they have no standards outside of themselves by which to measure their times.” PeopleMenWantBelieveSelfHumanityToo MuchCivilizationMassStandardsTragedyCrisisCharacteristicsUnconsciousWickedGravityAccusationInsensitive Author:Fulton J. Sheen
“The people of the United States have been fortunate in many things. One of the things in which we have been most fortunate has been that so far, due perhaps to certain basic virtues in our traditional ways of doing things, we have managed to keep the crisis of western civilization, which has devastated the rest of the world and in which we are as much involved as anybody, more or less at arm's length.” PeopleWorldWayHas BeensStatesAmericaCertainUnitedUnited StatesVirtueArmsInvolvedCivilizationCrisisWesternDuesTraditionalFortunateIsolationLengthWestern CivilizationDevastated Author:John Dos Passos
“Without metaphor the handling of general concepts such as culture and civilization becomes impossible, and that of disease and disorder is the obvious one for the case in point. Is not crisis itself a concept we owe to Hippocrates? In the social and cultural domain no metaphor is more apt than the pathological one.” CultureSocialCasesImpossibleCivilizationDiseaseConceptsCrisisMetaphorObviousDisorderDomain Author:Johan Huizinga
“We live in a world of crisis, of challenge, and ... it's in our galleries that we can unpack the civilizations that we're seeing the current manifestations of.” WorldChallengesSeeingCivilizationCrisisCurrentsManifestationGallery Author:Thomas P. Campbell
“Everybody is always talking about droughts and sea level rise, but when human civilization, with more crowding and greater resource depletion, is under that much stress, it translates into wars and huge displaced populations. The Syrian refugee crisis is just a first taste of what it's going to be like. I don't want my kids growing up in that kind of world.” WorldWantFirstsHumansKindWarKidsLevelsTalkingGrowing UpGreaterGrowingSeaHugeCivilizationTasteResourcesStressCrisisPopulationTranslateRefugeeDroughtKids Growing UpRefugee CrisisHuman CivilizationSyrian RefugeesSea Level RiseResource Depletion Author:James Cameron
“The fact is that philosophy has been a decisive source of inspiration in all the great crises that Europe has faced. It has been so in the time that preceded the fall of the Roman Empire, when Augustine of Hippo delineated the features of a new spiritual civilization; in the age of religious wars, when Descartes and Hobbes established the principles of modern science and politics; and at the turn of the French Revolution, interpreted by Kant and Hegel as an event destined to change the history of the world.” WorldHas BeensWarPhilosophyFactsInspirationAgeSpiritualTurnsFallReligiousPrinciplesModernEventsSourceRevolutionCivilizationEuropeCrisisFeaturesEmpiresDestinedWorld HistoryRoman EmpireModern ScienceFrench RevolutionHegelAugustineHippoHobbesSource Of InspirationReligious Wars Author:Roberto Esposito
“The Globalization of humanity is a natural, biological, evolutionary process. Yet we face an enormous crisis because the most central and important aspect of globalization-its economy-is currently being organized in a manner that so gravely violates the fundamental principles by which healthy living systems are organized that it threatens the demise of our whole civilization.” ImportantWholeFacesHumanityProcessNaturalPrinciplesEconomyCivilizationHealthyAspectCrisisFundamentalsEnormousOrganizedHealthy LivingGlobalizationDemiseFundamental Principles Author:Elisabet Sahtouris
“We face a climate crisis now that is the most serious challenge our civilization has ever confronted. And the greatest country in the world [America] has to remain a part of this unprecedented global agreement to deal with it.” WorldCountryAmericaFacesChallengesDealsSeriousCivilizationCrisisClimateAgreementUnprecedented Author:Al Gore
“Civilization has given us enormous successes: going to the moon, technology. But then this is the civilisation that took us to debt, environmental crisis, every single crisis. We need a civilization where we say goodbye to these things.” NeedsGivenTechnologyCivilizationMoonCrisisEnvironmentalDebtEnormousGoodbyeCivilisationSaying GoodbyeEnvironmental Crisis Author:Muhammad Yunus
“Access to knowledge is the superb, the supreme act of truly great civilizations. Of all the institutions that purport to do this, free libraries stand virtually alone in accomplishing this mission. No committee decides who may enter, no crisis of body or spirit must accompany the entrant. No tuition is charged, no oath sworn, no visa demanded. Of the monuments humans build for themselves, very few say - touch me, use me, my hush is not indifference, my space is not barrier. If I inspire awe, it is because I am in awe of you and the possibilities that dwell in you.” IfsHumansMayUseBodySpiritSpacePossibilityInspireCivilizationCrisisInstitutionsLibraryMissionsAccessSupremeIndifferenceAweBarriersCommitteesMonumentOathAccompanyUsing MeTouch MeHushSuperbVisaTuitionMy Space Author:Toni Morrison
“If we did not take action to solve this crisis, it could indeed threaten the future of human civilization. That sounds shrill. It sounds hard to accept. I believe it's deadly accurate. But again, we can solve it.” IfsBelieveHumansHardActionI BelieveSoundAcceptingEnvironmentCivilizationCrisisSolveAccurateHuman Civilization Author:Al Gore
“The human drama is reaching its denouement. The great unveiling is approaching, a time when the power structures of the world begin to crumble and people of the heart sing out a new truth. Many voices are joining the chorus, many feet are walking the path, many minds are dreaming possibilities for a magnificent future. For beneath the crises that are looming at every level of civilization, the global heart is awakening, beating out the rhythm of a new and glorious dance, calling us to a better way of living.” PeopleWorldWayLifeMindHumansHeartDreamVoiceLevelsPathFeetPossibilityWalkingCallingCivilizationDramaCrisisStructureAwakeningRhythmLive LifeGloriousReachingMagnificentBetter WaysJoiningChorusLoomingUnveilingDenouement Author:Anodea Judith
“The secret of success is to realize that the crisis on our planet is much larger than just deciding what to do with your own life, and if the system under which we live the structure of western civilization begins to collapse because of our selfishness and greed, then it will make no difference whether you have $1 million dollars when the crash comes or just $1.00. The only work that will ultimately bring any good to any of us is the work of contributing to the healing of the world.” IfsWorldSuccessRealizingDifferencesSecretHealingMillionsPlanetsCivilizationCrisisStructureDollarsWesternGreedSelfishnessCollapseCrashOur PlanetMillion DollarsContributingWestern CivilizationSecret To SuccessSelfishness And GreedDeciding What To Do Author:Marianne Williamson
“If the federal government is truly serious about doing something with the AIDS virus, we need to take steps that would isolate the carriers of this plague.... It is difficult to understand the public policy towards AIDS. It is the first time in the history of civilization in which the carriers of a genuine plague have not been isolated from the general population, and in which this deadly disease for which there is no cure is being treated as a civil rights issue instead of the true health crisis it represents.” IfsNeedsFirstsGovernmentDifficultStepsIssuesRightsPolicySeriousCivilizationDiseaseFirst TimeCrisisPopulationAidsGenuineTreatedCivil RightsCuresIsolatedFederal GovernmentPlagueVirusesPublic PolicyCarrierDeadly Diseases Author:Mike Huckabee