#civilization

I would like to see us get this place right first before we have the arrogance to put significantly flawed civilizations out onto other planets, even though they may be utterly uninhabited. ↗

— Patrick Stewart

#before #civilizations #even #first #flawed

It is what you do from now on that will either move our civilization forward a few tiny steps, or else... begin to march us steadily backward. ↗

— Patrick Stewart

#begin #civilization #either #else #few

If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships - the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world at peace. ↗

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

#ability #civilization #cultivate #human #human relationships

America is the civilization of people engaged in transforming themselves. In the past, the stars of the performance were the pioneer and the immigrant. Today, it is youth and the Black. ↗

— Harold Rosenberg

#black #civilization #engaged #immigrant #in the past

We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology. ↗

— Carl Sagan

#arranged #civilization #crucial #depend #elements

Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. ↗

— Barbara Tuchman

#carriers #civilization #crippled #dumb #history

Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men. ↗

— Jane Addams

#civilization #equal #living #men #method

A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan. ↗

— Martin Luther King, Jr.

#continues #death #installment #installment plan #men

There's nothing fundamentally wrong with people. Given a story to enact that puts them in accord with the world, they will live in accord with the world. But given a story to enact that puts them at odds with the world, as yours does, they will live at odds with the world. Given a story to enact in which they are the lords of the world, they will ACT like lords of the world. And, given a story to enact in which the world is a foe to be conquered, they will conquer it like a foe, and one day, inevitably, their foe will lie bleeding to death at their feet, as the world is now. ↗

— Daniel Quinn

#exploitation #philosophy #death

Car la vie est structure, lignes de force et injustice. Que fais-tu s'il est des enfants qui s'ennuient, sinon de leur imposer tes contraintes, lesquelles sont règles d'un jeu, après quoi tu les vois courrir. (chapitre XCVI) ↗

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

#freedom #freedom