#civilization

I'm not a chauvinist. I'm a universalist. I think that God imploded, like a spiritual big bang, to launch the eight civilizations that make up recorded history and the religions in those civilizations. ↗

— Huston Smith

#big #big bang #civilizations #eight #god

I ever will profess myself the greatest friend to those whose actions best correspond with their doctrine; which, I am sorry to say, is too seldom the case amongst those nations who pretend most to civilization. ↗

— J. G. Stedman

#am #amongst #best #case #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

We strain to tell Americans and aliens in this country that there's nothing unique about America, nothing unique about American civilization, nothing that requires their allegiance, nothing of great value that they should sacrifice for. ↗

— Tom Tancredo

#allegiance #america #american #civilization #country

I believe very firmly that indigenous populations had a really good, intuitive understanding of why we're here. And we're trying to gain that same understanding through psychology and intellect in modern civilization. ↗

— Serj Tankian

#civilization #firmly #gain #good #had

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

The greatest advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science and literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government. ↗

— Milton Friedman

#agriculture #architecture #centralized #civilization #come

‎'If a man walk in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer; but if he spends his whole day as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making earth bald before her time, he is esteemed an industrious and enterprising citizen. As if a town had no interest in its forests but to cut them down! ↗

— Henry David Thoreau

#nature #philosophy #life