英语格言警句_Civilization_(C15)

That is true culture which helps us to work for the social betterment of all.

- Henry Ward Beecher

I do not think that any civilization can be called plete until it has progressed from sophistication to unsophistication, and made a conscious return to simplicity of thinking and living.

- Lin Yutang

The true civilization is where every man gives to every other man every right he claims for himself.

- Robert G. Ingersoll

Civilization grew in the beginning from the minute that we had munication -- particularly munication by sea that enabled people to get inspiration and ideas from each other and to exchange basic raw materials.

- Thor Heyerdahl

A civilized nation can have no enemies, and one cannot draw a line across a map, a line that doesn't even exist in nature and say that the ugly enemy lives on the one side, and good friends live on the other.

- Thor Heyerdahl

Civilization can only revive when there shall e into being in a number of individuals a new tone of mind, independent of the preva lent one among the crowds, and in opposition to it --a tone of mind which will gradually win influence over the collective one, and in the end determine its character. Only an ethical movement can rescue us from barbarism, and the ethical es into existence only in individuals.

- Albert Schweitzer

There is as yet no civilized society, but only a society in the process of being civilized. There is as yet no civilized nation, but only nations in the process of being civilized. From this standpoint, we can now speak of a collective task of humankind. The task of humanity is to build a genuine civilization.

- Felix Adler

Civilization is the process in which one gradually increases the number of people included in the term 'we' or 'us' and at the same time decreases those labeled 'you' or 'them' until that category has no one left in it.

- Howard Winters

We must rapidly begin the shift from a "thing-oriented" society to a "person-oriented" society. When machines and puters, profit motives and property rights are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, materialism, and militarism are incapable of being conquered.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Gardening is civil and social, but it wants the vigor and freedom of the forest and the outlaw.

- Henry David Thoreau

Individual mitment to a group effort -- that is what makes a team work, a pany work, a society work, a civilization work.

- Vince Lombardi

I am not an advocate for frequent changes in laws and constitutions, but laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind. As that bees more developed, more enlightened, as new discoveries are made, new truths discovered and manners and opinions change, with the change of circumstances, institutions must advance also to keep pace with the times. We might as well require a man to wear still the coat which fitted him when a boy as civilized society to remain ever under the regimen of their barbarous ancestors.

- Thomas Jefferson

Education is the transmission of civilization.

- Ariel and Will Durant

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

- Barbara Tuchman