#civil

I've been thinking about the distorted view of science that prevails in our culture. I've been wondering about this, because our civilization is completely dependent on science and high technology, yet most of us are alienated from science. ↗

— Ann Druyan

#alienated #because #been #civilization #completely

We are like ignorant shepherds living on a site where great civilizations once flourished. The shepherds play with the fragments that pop up to the surface, having no notion of the beautiful structures of which they were once a part. ↗

— Allan Bloom

#civilizations #flourished #fragments #great #having

The family is the nucleus of civilization. ↗

— Will Durant

#civilization #nucleus

Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice. ↗

— Will Durant

#civilization #consent #exists #geological #notice

Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos. ↗

— Will Durant

#chaos #civilization #dies #grows #liberty

All over the world the wildlife that I write about is in grave danger. It is being exterminated by what we call the progress of civilization. ↗

— Gerald Durrell

#being #call #civilization #danger #exterminated

Human rights is a universal standard. It is a component of every religion and every civilization. ↗

— Shirin Ebadi

#component #every #human #human rights #religion

It was very clear to me in 1965, in Mississippi, that, as a lawyer, I could get people into schools, desegregate the schools, but if they were kicked off the plantations - and if they didn't have food, didn't have jobs, didn't have health care, didn't have the means to exercise those civil rights, we were not going to have success. ↗

— Marian Wright Edelman

#civil #civil rights #clear #could #exercise

The disease of mutual distrust among nations is the bane of modern civilization. ↗

— Franz Boas

#bane #civilization #disease #distrust #modern

Today’s breakfast consist of rice and a piece of bread fried in a bit of salt pork grease. At least I have my memories of grand banquets and fine foods, but this is all the children have ever known. I suppose it is best not to have anything to compare. ↗

— Nancy B. Brewer

#historical-fiction #historical-romance #food