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“Had the Hebrews not been disturbed in their progress a thousand and more years ago, they would have solved all the great problems of civilization which are being solved now under all the difficulties imposed by the spirit of the Middle Ages.”

Years Problem Age Spirit Progress Middle Civilization Thousand Years Ago Difficulty Middle Ages Disturbed Hebrew

Author:Isaac Mayer Wise

“The problem here is that a civilization that is 1,000 light years away doesn't know we exist. They don't know that we have radio telescopes here on Earth because they see Earth as it was 1,000 years ago. Nothing can travel faster than light, so however good their instruments they can't see in affect the future. So there is no particular reason they should be sending us messages at this time.”

Knows Should Years Reason Problem Light Earth Particular Civilization Messages Years Ago Instruments Radio Faster Telescopes Light Years

Author:Paul Davies

“We were granted the right to exist by the God of our fathers at the glimmer of the dawn of human civilization nearly 4,000 years ago. For that right, which has been sanctified in Jewish blood from generation to generation, we have paid a price unexampled in the annals of the nations.”

Years Humans Has Beens Father Nations Generations Blood Civilization Years Ago Paid Granted Dawn Our Father Price Human Civilization

Author:Menachem Begin

“Liberty, next to religion has been the motive of good deeds and the common pretext of crime, from the sowing of the seed at Athens, 2,460 years ago, until the ripened harvest was gathered by men of our race. It is the delicate fruit of a mature civilization; and scarcely a century has passed since nations, that knew the meaning of the term, resolved to be free. In every age its progress has been beset by its natural enemies, by ignorance and superstition, by lust of conquest and by love of ease, by the strong man's craving for power, and the poor man's craving for food.”

“Hundreds of thousands of years ago a very powerful civilization lived in what we now call North America. They congregated around power places - interdimensional vortexes where it is very easy to shift from one plane of reality to another.”

Years Reality America Easy Powerful Buddhism Civilization Years Ago Planes Very Powerful North America Vortex

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Maui is a beautiful island. It's really the site of an ancient civilization that we've forgotten about, a civilization that existed millions of years ago. When their time came, they left this world and another race was born, the race of human beings.”

World Years Humans Beautiful Left Born Human Beings Race Millions This World Buddhism Civilization Years Ago Forgotten Ancient Islands Site Maui Ancient Civilizations

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Civilization in certain respects is as inadequate as it was a thousand years ago.”

Years Certain Civilization Thousand Years Ago Thousand Years Inadequate

Author:Gertrude Atherton

“I've begun to look at the world through apocalypse eyes. Our society, which seems so sturdily built out of concrete and custom, is just a temporary resting place, a hotel our civilization checked into a couple hundred years ago and must one day check out of.”

World Years Looks Seems Eye Couple Civilization One Day Hundred Built Years Ago Checks Hotel Our Society Customs Temporary Concrete Apocalypse

Book:Emergency: One man's story of a dangerous world, and how to stay alive in it

Source: Emergency: One man's story of a dangerous world, and how to stay alive in it

“Think of our DNA. In the last million years, our DNA hasn't changed at all. It's really much the same as it was in the jungle, a million, two millions years ago. But in the last 200 years, our destructive capacities have increased many, many millions of times over. Why don't we see intelligent signals from outer space? Because in all likelihood, once the civilization reaches the point our civilization has reached, it destroys itself.”

Thinking Years Two Lasts Space Millions Changed Civilization Capacity Years Ago Intelligent Destructive Signals Dna Jungle Outer Space Likelihood

Author:Stephen Hawking

“When we affect to condemn savages, we should remember that by doing so we asperse our own progenitors; for they were savages also.Who can swear that among the naked British barbarians sent to Rome to be stared at more than 1500 years ago, the ancestor of Bacon might not have been found?--Why, among the very Thugs of India, or the bloody Dyaks of Borneo, exists the germ of all that is intellectually elevated and grand. We are all of us--Anglo-Saxons, Dyaks and Indians--sprung from one head and made in one image.”

“Thousands of years ago, civilizations flourished in Africa which suffer not at all by comparison with those of other continents. In those centuries, Africans were politically free and economically independent. Their social patterns were their own and their cultures truly indigenous.”

Years Suffering Culture Social Century Civilization Years Ago Independent Patterns Comparison Continents Indigenous Indigenous Culture

Author:Haile Selassie

“Poverty is not a certain small amount of goods, nor is it just a relation between means and ends; above all it is a relation between people. Poverty is a social status. As such it is the invention of civilization. Socrates made the same point 2,400 years ago: "He is richest who is content with least, for contentment is the wealth of nature.”

People Years Mean Made Ends Certain Social Wealth Poverty Amount Civilization Years Ago Relation Invention Contentment Goods Small Amounts Social Status

Author:Christopher Ryan

“When all this is over, people will try to blame the Germans alone, and the Germans will try to blame the Nazis alone, and the Nazis will try to blame Hitler alone. They will make him bear the sins of the world. But it's not true. You suspected what was happening, and so did I. It was already too late over a year ago. I caused a reporter to lose his job because you told me to. He was deported. The day I did that I made my little contribution to civilization, the only one that matters.”

People World Trying Years Littles Made Matter Jobs Loses Sin Bears Civilization Late Happenings Years Ago Blame Contribution Too Late Reporters Nazi True You Willful Ignorance

Book:Dream of Scipio

Source: Dream of Scipio