Best remains & civilization Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“We should be active leaders in the fight for civil liberties which adequately reflect present social realities. Furthermore the left as a movement must appropriate the green agenda. Sustainability has to become the foundation of all our pursuits. This movement is my dream and vision. The left remains strong in Malta, but stronger it will become if we have the courage to unite and dream.”

“On Mars, the crumbling remains of ancient civilizations may be found, mutely testifying to the one-time glory of a dying world.”

World May Found Dying Civilization Glory Remains Ancient One Time Mars Crumbling Ancient Civilizations Testifying

Author:P. E. Cleator

“Since the same human mire remains beneath, does not all civilization reduce itself to the superiority of smelling nice and living well?”

Humans Wells Doe Nice Civilization Remains Superiority Live Well

Author:Emile Zola

“Margaret Mead was both a student of civilization and an exemplar of it. To a public of millions, she brought the central insight of cultural anthropology: that varying cultural patterns express an underlying human unity. She mastered her discipline, but she also transcended it. Intrepid, independent, plain spoken, fearless, she remains a model for the young and a teacher from whom all may learn.”

Humans May Young Millions Teacher Students Discipline Civilization Models Independent Remains Unity Patterns Insight Fearless Anthropology Mead

Author:Margaret Mead

“A lot is said, by foreigners and the left, about America being a violent society. Yet if you subtract the crime statistics for its largest cities places that have been under the strict political control of so-called "progressives", sometimes for many generations what remains, the real America, is the most peaceful, productive, prosperous, and truly progressive civilization in all of human history.”

“Coca-Cola remains emblematic of the best and worst of America and Western civilization. The history of Coca-Cola is the often funny story of a group of men obsessed with putting a trivial soft drink "within an arm's reach of desire." But at the same time, it is a microcosm of American history. Coca-Cola grew up with the country, shaping and shaped by the times. The drink not only helped to alter consumption patterns, but attitudes toward leisure, work, advertising, sex, family life, and patriotism.”

“Country things are the necessary root of our life - and that remains true even of a rootless and tragically urban civilization. To live permanently away from the country is a form of slow death.”

Country Form Our Lives Civilization Roots Remains Urban

Book:A Woman Talking

Source: A Woman Talking

“We have not chosen this time. We cannot help it if we are born as men of the early winter of full Civilization, instead of on the golden summit of a ripe Culture, in a Phidias or a Mozart time. Everything depends on our seeing our own position, our destiny, clearly, on our realizing that though we may lie to ourselves about it, we cannot evade it. He who does not acknowledge this in his heart, ceases to be counted among the men of his generation, and remains either a simpleton, a charlatan, or a pedant.”

Source: Form and actuality

“Each member of society can have only a small fraction of the knowledge possessed by all, and...each is therefore ignorant of most of the facts on which the working of society rests...civilization rests on the fact that we all benefit from knowledge which we do not possess. And one of the ways in which civilization helps us to overcome that limitation on the extent of individual knowledge is by conquering intelligence, not by the acquisition of more knowledge, but by the utilization of knowledge which is and which remains widely dispersed among individuals.”

Way Facts Helping Individual Civilization Members Benefits Overcoming Remains Ignorant Conquer Limitation Possessed Acquisition Fractions More Knowledge Utilization

Author:Friedrich August von Hayek

“When you look on one of your contemporary 'good copies' of historical remains, ask yourself the question: Not what style, but in what civilization is this building? And the absurdity, vulgarity, anachronism and solecism of the modern structure will be revealed to you in a most startling fashion.”

Looks Asks Modern Fashion Style Building Civilization Remains Structure Historical Contemporary Copies Absurdity Vulgarity Anachronism

Author:Louis Sullivan

“It is possible to point to hundreds, thousands, perhaps even millions of imaginative, courageous programs to reduce, recycle, and reuse - yet the overall trajectory of industrial civilization remains relatively unchanged.”

Millions Civilization Program Remains Courageous Imaginative Trajectory Reuse

Book:Afterburn: Society Beyond Fossil Fuels

Source: Afterburn: Society Beyond Fossil Fuels

“Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit, and as vital to our lives as water and good bread. A civilization which destroys what little remains of the wild, the spare, the original, is cutting itself off from its origins and betraying the principle of civilization itself.”

Humans Littles Spirit Water Principles Our Lives Cutting Adventure Civilization Originals Remains Environmental Bread Luxury Wilderness Betray Spares Human Spirit

Book:Desert Solitaire

Source: Desert Solitaire

“Men come and go, cities rise and fall, whole civilizations appear and disappear-the earth remains, slightly modified. The earth remains, and the heartbreaking beauty where there are no hearts to break....I sometimes choose to think, no doubt perversely, that man is a dream, thought an illusion, and only rock is real. Rock and sun.”

Thinking Men Heart Real Sometimes Whole Dream Earth Fall Cities Break Sun Doubt Rocks Civilization Illusion Remains Disappear No Doubt Comes And Goes Heartbreaking Rise And Fall

Author:Edward Abbey

“Life has always seemed to me like a plant that lives on its rhizome. Its true life is invisible, hidden in the rhizome. The part that appears above ground lasts only a single summer. Then it withers away—an ephemeral apparition. When we think of the unending growth and decay of life and civilizations, we cannot escape the impression of absolute nullity. Yet I have never lost a sense of something that lives and endures underneath the eternal flux. What we see is the blossom, which passes. The rhizome remains.”

Source: The Earth Has a Soul: The Nature Writings of C.G. Jung

“Coal, oil and gas are called fossil fuels, because they are mostly made of the fossil remains of beings from long ago. The chemical energy within them is a kind of stored sunlight originally accumulated by ancient plants. Our civilization runs by burning the remains of humble creatures who inhabited the Earth hundreds of millions of years before the first humans came on the scene. Like some ghastly cannibal cult, we subsist on the dead bodies of our ancestors and distant relatives. - Dr. Carl Sagan”

Source: Billions & Billions: Thoughts on Life and Death at the Brink of the Millennium

“The planetary phase of history has begun, but the future shape of global society remains profoundly uncertain. Though perhaps improbable, a shift toward a planetary civilization of enriched lives, human solidarity, and environmental sustainability is still possible.”

Humans Stills Humanity Civilization Shapes Remains Environmental Sustainability Phases Uncertain Solidarity Improbable Environmental Sustainability

Author:Paul Raskin

“The fact remains that, if the supply of energy failed, modern civilization would come to an end as abruptly as does the music of an organ deprived of wind.”

Ifs Doe Ends Facts Science Energy Modern Wind Failure Civilization Future Remains Organs Deprived Modern Civilization

Book:Matter and energy

Source: Matter and energy

“What little wilderness remains displays the patterns we must return to, if our species and as many others as now remain are to persist here a while. Ideally this would call for a broad cultural rapprochment with the wild, a long overdue armistice in civilization's war upon it.”

Ifs Littles Long War Return Civilization Remains Species Patterns Wilderness Broads Display Persist Biodiversity Overdue Armistice

Author:Stephanie Mills

“What is different in capitalist civilization has been two things. First, the process of meritocracy has been proclaimed as an official virtue instead of being merely a de facto reality. The culture has been different. And secondly, the percentage of the world's population for whom such ascent was possible has gone up. But even though it has grown up, meritocratic ascent remains very much the attribute of a minority.”

“It is Hell, of course, that makes priests powerful, not Heaven, for after thousands of years of so-called civilization fear remains the one common denominator of mankind”

Years Inspiration Courses Heaven Powerful Common Hell Mankind Civilization Remains Priests Common Denominator

Author:H. L. Mencken

“There has never yet been a human society worthy of the name of civilization. Civilization remains a remote ideal.”

Humans Names Civilization Ideals Remains Worthy Human Society

Book:A Voice Crying in the Wilderness

Source: A Voice Crying in the Wilderness

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