Many of our actions degrade our habitat because we undertake them in order to reach goals whose allure blinds us to myriad dire consequences. In orde….

To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level..

Those who are dead are not dead They're just living in my head..

When I was a graduate student at Harvard, I learned about showers and central heating. Ten years later, I learned about breakfast meetings. These are….

The human heart as modern civilization has made it is more prone to hatred than to friendship. And it is prone to hatred because it is dissatisfied..

For us, performance is everything. If we can get great actors in there who like us, and we really like, we feel pretty confident that we can make a m….

It is time to stop the mealy-mouthed euphemisms: 'Nationalists', 'Loyalists', 'Communities', 'Ethnic Groups', 'Cultures', 'Civilizations'. Religions ….

Make it work, make it right, make it fast..

A good civilization gives the greatest possible scope to the common passions and makes them intelligible among the great number of people..

The luxuries of civilization satisfy only those wants which they themselves create..

It is not for nothing, either, that the umbrella has become the very foremost badge of modern civilization--the Urim and Thummim of respectability. .….

To provide its happy people with perpetual fun is now the deepest purpose of Western civilization..

The test of civilization is the estimate of woman. Among savages she is a slave. In the dark ages of Christianity she is a toy and a sentimental godd….

How we feel about the evolving future tells us who we are as individuals and as a civilization: Do we search for stasis-a regulated, engineered world….

Because civilization isn't a thing that you build and then there it is, you have it forever. It needs to be built constantly, recreated daily. It van….

The more civilized a nation, the more conformed its population, until that civilization's last age arrives, when multiplicity wages war with conformi….

Americans cannot comprehend how their fellow countrymen could not love their country. But the left's anti-Americanism is intrinsic to their entire wo….

The love of domination and an uncontrolled lust of arbitrary power have prevailed among all nations and perhaps in proportion to the degrees of civil….

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Amazing uke playing to be relished..

Really advanced civilization is based on advances in energy..