#civilization

Xenophobia manifests itself especially against civilizations and cultures that are weak because they lack economic resources, means of subsistence or land. So nomadic people are the first targets of this kind of aggression. ↗

— Antonio Tabucchi

#aggression #because #civilizations #cultures #economic

The salt of any interesting civilization is mixture. ↗

— Antonio Tabucchi

#civilization #interesting #mixture #salt

To make the moral achievement implicit in science a source of strength to civilization, the scientist will have to have the cooperation also of the philosopher and the religious teacher. ↗

— Arthur Holly Compton

#also #civilization #cooperation #implicit #make

Civilizations die from suicide, not by murder. ↗

— Arnold J. Toynbee

#die #murder #suicide

No administration could stop the tidal wave of immigration that swept over the land; no political party could restrain or control the enterprise of our people, and no reasonable man could desire to check the march of civilization. ↗

— Nelson A. Miles

#administration #check #civilization #control #could

All of the philosophers I studied were white (with a few Eastern exceptions), and, for that matter, they were all male. Africa, the cradle of civilization, seemed to have no footing in the highest form of human thought. ↗

— Walter Mosley

#civilization #cradle #eastern #exceptions #few

If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#expects #free #ignorant #nation #never

A people are as healthy and confident as the stories they tell themselves. Sick storytellers can make nations sick. Without stories we would go mad. Life would lose it’s moorings or orientation... Stories can conquer fear, you know. They can make the heart larger. ↗

— Ben Okri

#mythology #stories #storytelling #life

In the highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight. He who has once known its satisfactions is provided with a resource against calamity. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#civilization #civilized #emerson #quote #reading

I can smell the sex coming off you right now. I could take you down on this sidewalk and be up that skirt of yours in a heartbeat. And you wouldn't fight me, would you?" "Now, we can be civilized and wait until we get home. Or we can get down to it right here. Either way, I'm dying to come inside of you again, and you're not going to say no." - Wrath to Beth ↗

— J.R. Ward

#black-dagger-brotherhood #dark-lover #j-r-ward #wrath #civilization