Modern Civilization Quotes
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Modern Civilization Quotes & Sayings
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...any attempt to define the characteristics of modern society is akin to defining the color of a chameleon.
— Yuval Noah Harari
A modern and humane civilization must control conception or sink into barbaric cruelty to individuals.
— Marie Stopes
Apart from the desire to produce beautiful things, the leading passion of my life has been and is hatred of modern civilization.
— William Morris
The Roman Pontiff can, and ought to, reconcile himself, and come to terms with progress, liberalism and modern civilization.
— Pope Pius IX
We have always been taught that navigation is the result of civilization, but modern archeology has demonstrated very clearly that this is not so.
— Thor Heyerdahl
Modern civilization has taught us to convert night into day and golden silence into brazen din and noise.
— Mahatma Gandhi
A modern civilization is only possible when it is accepted that singular beings exist and express themselves freely.
— Tahar Ben Jelloun
Everything in modern civilization is based on this concept of time which is not really valid.
— Jose Arguelles
There is in reality no such thing as modern art. Art is carried on up and down in immense cycles through centuries and civilizations.
— Hans Hofmann
One could almost phrase the motto of our modern civilization thus: Science is my shepherd; I shall not want.
— Harry Emerson Fosdick
If the Negro is not careful he will drink in all the poison of modern civilization and die from the effects of it.
— Marcus Garvey
To me, the Holocaust stands alone as the most horrible human event in modern civilization.
— Robert Shapiro
The model of modern Western civilization is the virus: the pure bit of information, which turns its environment into endless reproductions of itself.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
Those who admire modern civilization usually identify it with the steam engine and the electric telegraph.
— George Bernard Shaw
Modern civilization is a product of an energy binge. Binges often end in hangovers.
— Alfred W. Crosby
Modern civilization is based on violence and slavery and fine words.
— G.I. Gurdjieff
Our modern civilization returns exceedingly little of what it borrows. -Martin Renner
— Michael Pollan
Who today remembers that gasoline, the fuel of modern civilization, originated as yet another invention in search of a use?
— Jared Diamond
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.
— Bertrand Russell
Modern civilization has no understanding of sacred matters. Everything is backwards.
— Thomas Yellowtail
Civilization is a conspiracy. Modern life is the silent compact of comfortable folk to keep up pretences.
— John Buchan
How much modern civilization has lost, I think, when they lost the awareness of the billions of stars overhead.
— Christopher Pike
The interesting thing is the field is so big - it's enormous. One thing a modern civilization needs is energy.
— Charlie Munger
There is nothing more savage than modern civilization.
— Bryant McGill
Not much was really invented during the Renaissance, if you don't count modern civilization.
— P. J. O'Rourke
Father Roger Boscovich is often credited as the father of modern atomic theory.
— Thomas E. Woods Jr.
The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion.
— Thomas Carlyle
