Pastoral Resources

The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much. In public affairs, in the rebuilding of civilization, something less dramatic and emotional is needed, namely tolerance.

Surely the only sound foundation for a civilization is a sound state of mind.

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

The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.

The first requisite of civilization is that of justice.

It is impossible to overlook the extent to which civilization is built upon a renunciation of instinct.

The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization.

We believe that civilization has been created under the pressure of the exigencies of life at the cost of satisfaction of the instincts.

Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock.

A civilization which leaves so large a number of its participants unsatisfied and drives them into revolt neither has nor deserves the prospect of a lasting existence.

The greatest advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science and literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government.

The world runs on individuals pursuing their self interests. The great achievements of civilization have not come from government bureaus. Einstein didn't construct his theory under order from a, from a bureaucrat. Henry Ford didn't revolutionize the automobile industry that way.

What do I think of Western civilization? I think it would be a very good idea.

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

The center of Western culture is Greece, and we have never lost our ties with the architectural concepts of that ancient civilization.

Civilization is what makes you sick.

What has destroyed every previous civilization has been the tendency to the unequal distribution of wealth and power.

Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty ones.

I've managed to dodge the curse. Not all my family have. Of course, music helped me - music is all about civilization, about something worthwhile. It's all about ideas.

Barbarism is needed every four or five hundred years to bring the world back to life. Otherwise it would die of civilization.