“While the comforts of modern civilization and technological success or economic success seem at the moment quite fulfilling, I can assure you that all of these things are transitory and will fall away.” I CanMomentsSeemsHumanityFallEconomicModernBuddhismComfortCivilizationFulfillingTechnologicalTransitoryModern CivilizationEconomic Success Author:Frederick Lenz
“The Islamic conquest of India is probably the bloodiest story in history. It is a discouraging tale, for its evident moral is that civilization is a precious good, whose delicate complex of order and freedom, culture and peace, can at any moment be overthrown by barbarians invading from without or multiplying within.” MomentsStoriesOrderCultureMoralCivilizationIndiaComplexesTalesIslamicDelicateEvidentConquestDiscouragingBarbariansInvadingMultiplying Author:Will Durant
“We talk about a civilization and love and we're seeing it at the end. So many people around the world are - that whole electronic band that Dostoyevsky imagined of love around the world - that every contribution, every moment of love, every act of kindness feeds that and is like a reservoir for somebody in need to draw upon.” PeopleWorldNeedsEndsWholeMomentsKindnessSeeingCivilizationBandDrawsAnd LoveAround The WorldContributionActs Of KindnessReservoirsDostoyevskyMoments Of Love Author:Michael Novak