#liza

The best security for civilization is the dwelling, and upon properly appointed and becoming dwellings depends, more than anything else, the improvement of mankind. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

#appointed #becoming #best #civilization #depends

Elizabeth's back at the red cross, and I'm walking the dog. ↗

— Bob Dole

#cross #dog #elizabeth #i #red

I have increasingly, over the years, felt that religion today does our civilization more harm than good. ↗

— Mary Douglas

#does #felt #good #harm #i

With the emergence of civilization, the rate of change shifted from hundreds of thousands of years to millennia. With the emergence of science as a way of knowing the universe, the rate of change shifted to centuries. ↗

— William Irwin Thompson

#change #civilization #emergence #hundreds #knowing

It was the Law of the Sea, they said. Civilization ends at the waterline. Beyond that, we all enter the food chain, and not always right at the top. ↗

— Hunter S. Thompson

#beyond #chain #civilization #ends #enter

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

The question is not really about a shift to the economic cone where officers are writing about the balance of payments and the need for economic stabilization. ↗

— Lawrence Eagleburger

#balance #cone #economic #need #officers

A strong man cannot help a weaker unless the weaker is willing to be helped, and even then the weak man must become strong of himself; he must, by his own efforts, develop the strength which he admires in another. None but himself can alter his condition. ↗

— James Allen

#help-self #quotes #quotes-i-love #quotes-on-life #quotes-that-make-sense

All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution. ↗

— Havelock Ellis

#civilization #crust #from time to time #over #revolution

The more rapidly a civilization progresses, the sooner it dies for another to rise in its place. ↗

— Havelock Ellis

#civilization #dies #more #place #progresses