Best method & civilization Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“The human species does not necessarily move in stages from progress to progress ... history and civilization do not advance in tandem. From the stagnation of Medieval Europe to the decline and chaos in recent times on the mainland of Asia and to the catastrophes of two world wars in the twentieth century, the methods of killing people became increasingly sophisticated. Scientific and technological progress certainly does not imply that humankind as a result becomes more civilized.”

“There can be no doubt that the young of today have to be protected against certain poisonous effects inherent in present-day civilization. Five social diseases surround them, even in early childhood. There is the decline in fitness due to modern methods of locomotion; the decline in initiative due to the widespread disease of spectatoritis; the decline in care and skill due to the weakened tradition of craftsmanship; the decline in self-discipline due to the ever-present availability of tranquilizers and stimulants, and the decline in compassion, which William Temple called "spiritual death.”

“Investors, monarchies, and parliamentarians devised methods to control the processes of wealth accumulation and the power that came with it, but the ideology behind gold fever mobilized settlers to cross the Atlantic to an unknown fate. Subjugating entire societies and civilizations, enslaving whole countries, and slaughtering people village by village did not seem too high a price to pay, nor did it appear inhumane. The systems of colonization were modern and rational, but its ideological basis was madness.”

“Do not confuse objectives with methods. When the nation becomes substantially united in favor of planning the broad objectives of civilization, then true leadership must unite thought behind definite methods.”

Wisdom Politics Nations United Behinds Economy Civilization Method Favors Planning Objectives Liberalism Broads Definite True Leader True Leadership

Book:Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1937, Volume 6

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1937, Volume 6

“Today Eratosthenes' method [of calculating the circumference of the earth] seems almost banal... yet it is inaccessible to prescientific civilizations, and in all of Antiquity not a single Latin author succeeded in stating it coherently.”

Seems Today Earth Civilization Method Latin Antiquity Calculating Inaccessible

Author:Lucio Russo

“The woman movement is one which is uniting by co-operating influences, all the antagonisms that are warring on the family state. Spiritualism, free love, free divorce, the vicious indulgences consequent on unregulated civilization, the worldliness which tempts men and women to avoid large families, often by sinful methods, thus making the ignorant masses the chief supply of the future ruling majorities; and most powerful of all, the feeble constitution and poor health of women, causing them to dread maternity as--what it is fast becoming--an accumulation of mental and bodily tortures.”

Source: Woman Suffrage and Woman's Profession

“It would appear that the traditional parliamentary democracies can offer no fundamental opposition to that automatism of technological civilization and the industrial-consumer society, for they too are being dragged helplessly along by it. People are manipulated in ways that are infinitely more subtle and refined than the brutal methods used in post-totalitarian societies.”

Source: The Power of the Powerless: Citizens Against the State in Central Eastern Europe: Citizens Against the State in Central Eastern Europe

“Further march of civilization seems to employ increasing domination of man over beast, together with a growingly humane method of using them.”

Men Seems Together Civilization Method Beast March Domination Humane

Book:Collected Works

Source: Collected Works

“The discovery of electrical waves... has had a profound influence on civilization; it has been instrumental in providing the methods which may bring all inhabitants of the world within hearing distance of each other and has potentialities social, educational and political which we are only beginning to realize.”

World May Has Beens Political Social Realizing Influence Civilization Discovery Method Distance Profound Wave Educational Hearing Providing Electrical

Author:Joseph John Thomson

“It is in the best interests of civilization and our economy and our nation to understand what objective truths are as revealed by the methods and tools of science.”

Nations Interest Economy Civilization Tools Method Objectives Objective Truth

Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson

“Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men.”

Men Attitude Progress Civilization Equal Dignity Army Method Social Work Social Worker Equal Respect

Book:Jane Addams's Essays and Speeches on Peace

Source: Jane Addams's Essays and Speeches on Peace

“Nearly all great civilizations that perished did so because they had crystallized, because they were incapable of adapting themselves to new conditions, new methods, new points of view. It is as though people would rather die than change.”

People Dies Change Justice Views Conditions Civilization Diversity Method Social Justice Point Of View Incapable Adapting

Author:Eleanor Roosevelt

“But in practical affairs, particularly in politics, men are needed who combine human experience and interest in human relations with a knowledge of science and technology. Moreover, they must be men of action and not contemplation. I have the impression that no method of education can produce people with all the qualities required. I am haunted by the idea that this break in human civilization, caused by the discovery of the scientific method, may be irreparable.”

“In principle as a philosophy, a model of organising society, Communism has to be respected. As regards the use of certain methods to advance social justice and greater regulation by the state, there are certain methods that are useful. What we need is a new society, a new civilization and convergence of all that is best in both [Communism and Capitalism]”

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Author:Mikhail Gorbachev

“Its [the anthropological method] power to make us understand the roots from which our civilization has sprung, that it impresses us with the relative value of all forms of culture, and thus serves as a check to an exaggerated valuation of the standpoint of our own period, which we are only too liable to consider the ultimate goal of human evolution, thus depriving ourselves of the benefits to be gained from the teachings of other cultures and hindering an objective criticism of our own work.”

“Totalitarianism extends to whatever touches it...psychological technique, as it operates in the army or in a great industrial plant, entails a direct action on the family. It involves a psychological adaptation of family life to military or industrial methods, supervision of family life, and training family life for military or industrial service. Technique can leave nothing untouched in a civilization. Everything is its concern. Technique, which is destroying all other civilizations, is more than a simple mechanism: it's a whole civilization in itself.”

“Nations are beginning to look to some vague organization, some nebulous course of humanity, to pay their bills and tell them what to do. This is not local self-government. It is not American. It is not the method which has made this country what it is. We can not maintain the western standard of civilization on that theory. If it is supported at all, it will have to be supported on the principle of individual responsibility.”

“If mankind were to continue in other than the present barbarism, a new path must be found, a new civilization based on some other method than technology”

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Book:A Heritage of Stars

Source: A Heritage of Stars

“To one who believes that really good industrial conditions are the hope for a machine civilization, nothing is more heartening than to watch conference methods and education replacing police methods”

Believe Watches Conditions Civilization Machines Police Method Conferences

Author:Frances Perkins

“We must, then, apply the principle of Doubt to Civilization; we must doubt its necessity, its excellence, and its permanence.”

Doubt Civilization Method Excellence Permanence

Author:Charles Fourier

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