#civilization

Artificial Intelligence leaves no doubt that it wants its audiences to enter a realm of pure fantasy when it identifies one of the last remaining islands of civilization as New Jersey. ↗

— Godfried Danneels

#artificial intelligence #audiences #civilization #doubt #enter

In essence the Renaissance was simply the green end of one of civilization's hardest winters. ↗

— John Fowles

#end #essence #green #hardest #renaissance

George Bush doesn't represent any civilization! ↗

— George Galloway

#bush #civilization #george #george bush #represent

The Industrial Revolution was another of those extraordinary jumps forward in the story of civilization. ↗

— Stephen Gardiner

#civilization #extraordinary #forward #industrial #industrial revolution

Something must be radically wrong with a culture and a civilisation when its youth begins to desert it. Youth is the natural time for revolt, for experiment, for a generous idealism that is eager for action. Any civilisation which has the wisdom of self-preservation will allow a certain margin of freedom for the expression of this youthful mood. But the plain, unpalatable fact is that in America today that margin of freedom has been reduced to the vanishing point. Rebellious youth is not wanted here. In our environment there is nothing to challenge our young men; there is no flexibility, no colour, no possibility for adventure, no chance to shape events more generously than is permitted under the rules of highly organised looting. All our institutional life combines for the common purpose of blackjacking our youth into the acceptance of the status quo; and not acceptance of it merely, but rather its glorification. ↗

— Harold Edmund Stearns

#adventure #america #civilization #desertion #emigration

Roman civilization had achieved, within the bounds of its technology, relatively as great a mastery of time and space as we have achieved today. ↗

— Arthur Erickson

#bounds #civilization #great #had #mastery

I see little of more importance to the future of our country and of civilization than full recognition of the place of the artist. If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him. ↗

— Pauline Kael

#artist #civilization #country #culture #follow

Civilization never stands still; if in one country it is falling back, in another it is changing, evolving, becoming more complicated, bringing fresh experience to body and mind, breeding new desires, and exploiting Nature's cupboard for their satisfaction. ↗

— Arthur Keith

#back #becoming #body #breeding #bringing

This law … defines the limits of competition in the community of life. You may compete to the full extent of your capabilities, but you may not hunt down your competitors or destroy their food or deny them access to food. In other words, you may compete but you may not wage war. ↗

— Daniel Quinn

#ecology #exploitation #philosophy #food

A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#destroyed #gods #only