#civilization

Let the war turn off the families. Our civilization is flinging itself to pieces. Stand back from the centrifuge. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#family

People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization. ↗

— Agnes Repplier

#cannot #civilization #much #palpable #people

Coffee - the favorite drink of the civilized world. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#civilization

You can best serve civilization by being against what usually passes for it. ↗

— Wendell Berry

#rebellion #civilization

A German immersed in any civilization different from his own loses a weight equivalent in volume to the amount of intelligence he displaces. ↗

— Jose Bergamin

#any #civilization #different #equivalent #german

Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#arrangement #believes #civilization #ingenious #inventor

Thus, it was to seek true civilization and true justice for all the peoples of the world, and to view this as the destruction of personal freedom and respect is to be assailed by the hatred and emotion of war, and to make hasty judgments. ↗

— Hideki Tojo

#civilization #destruction #emotion #freedom #hasty

The test of civilization is its estimate of women. ↗

— George William Curtis

#civilization #estimate #test

Of the twenty-two civilizations that have appeared in history, nineteen of them collapsed when they reached the moral state the United States is in now. ↗

— Arnold J. Toynbee

#civilizations #collapsed #history #moral #nineteen

Technology is a gift of God. After the gift of life it is perhaps the greatest of God's gifts. It is the mother of civilizations, of arts and of sciences. ↗

— Freeman Dyson

#after #arts #civilizations #gift #gifts