“It is an awesome thing to comprehend the magnitude of the fact that what a human being dreams and imagines can be realized. The power of that truth needs to be directed toward our creation of a future that is worthy of true human value and the world civilization.” WorldNeedsHumansFactsDreamValuesHuman BeingsImagineCreationCivilizationWorthyMagnitudeHuman ValuesAwesome Things Author:Vanna Bonta
“A young man who had been troubling society with impalpable doctrines of a new civilization which he called "the Kingdom of Heaven" had been put out of the way; and I can imagine that believer in material power murmuring as he went homeward, "it will all blow over now." Yes. The wind from the Kingdom of Heaven has blown over the world, and shall blow for centuries yet.” MenWorldWayI CanYoungHeavenImagineCenturyWindMaterialsCivilizationBlowBelieverKingdomsDoctrineYoung ManImagine ThatKingdom Of HeavenMurmuring Book:The Economics of Ireland and the Policy of the British Government Source: The Economics of Ireland and the Policy of the British Government
“Whether we ever get to know about them or not, there are very probably alien civilizations that are superhuman, to the point of being god-like in ways that exceed anything a theologian could possibly imagine. Their technical achievements would seem as supernatural to us as ours would seem to a Dark Age peasant transported to the twenty-first century. Imagine his response to a laptop computer, a mobile telephone, a hydrogen bomb or a jumbo jet.” KnowsWayFirstsSeemsAgeDarkImagineCenturyCivilizationAchievementComputerTwentiesResponseAliensBombsTelephonesTheologianMobileExceedPeasantsJetDark AgesLaptopsSuperhumanHydrogenHydrogen BombLaptop Computers Book:The God Delusion Source: The God Delusion
“The poet Melvin B. Tolson once said "A civilization is judged only in its decline." That made sense to me. I would imagine the same is true for poets and tennis players.” MadeSaidImaginePlayerPoetCivilizationTennisJudgedDeclineTennis Player Author:Nikki Giovanni
“Four years of world war, at a cost in human suffering which our minds are mercifully too limited to imagine, led to the very clear realization that international anarchy must be abandoned if civilization was to survive.” IfsWorldYearsMindHumansWarSufferingClearFourImagineCivilizationCostInternationalRealizationWar Of The WorldsAnarchyAbandonedFour YearsHuman Suffering Author:Arthur Henderson
“It's hard to imagine a civilization without onions; in one form or another their flavor blends into almost everything in the meal except the desert.” HardFormImagineCivilizationDesertMealsFlavorOnions Author:Julia Child