Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

Today every city, town, or village is affected by it. We have entered the Neon Civilization and become a plastic world.. It goes deeper than its visual manifestations, it affects moral matters; we are engaged, as astrophysicists would say, on a decaying orbit.

You cannot see the Milky Way in New York City any more ... We risk the loss of our sensual perception. And if you lose those, naturally, you try to compensate by other stimulations, by very loud noises, or by bright lights or drugs.

For some time I watch the coming of the night? Above is the glistening galaxy of childhood, now hidden in the Western world by air pollution and the glare of artificial light; for my children's children, the power, peace and healing of the night will be obliterated.

The skylines lit up at dead of night, the air-conditioning systems cooling empty hotels in the desert and artificial light in the middle of the day all have something both demented and admirable about them. The mindless luxury of a rich civilization, and yet of a civilization perhaps as scared to see the lights go out as was the hunter in his primitive night.

Modernity widened the distance between the sensational and the relevant.

We live in a dominant culture of ceaseless Departure and Progress that has so far lasted two or three centuries.

There was an age, however, when the transition from savagery to civilization, with all its impressive outward manifestations in art and architecture, took place for the first time.

We're addicted to this concept of civilization - we can't imagine living outside of it because we've had it for 10,000 years, all of what we call history. But according to archaeologists, humanity has been on this planet for millions of years in indigenous form.

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

Saudi Arabia has also changed. People today are connecting with each other all across the world through small gadgets and television. It's a different society.

Technology and industry have distanced people from nature and magic and human values.

In this century of hyper-postmodern ideals, with the digital future, we're segmented into different people, places, and things in a constant state of change.

The world is changing very profoundly.

Most of us, myself included, have forgotten what real darkness is like. We live in a world where light is inescapable. It comes from street lamps, headlights, security floodlights, and even the faint glow of our alarm clocks.

Once we started to urbanize, we put ourselves on this treadmill. We traded away stability for growth. And growth requires change.

Now this problem of the adjustment of man to his natural resources, and the problem of how such things as industrialization and urbanization can be accepted without destroying the traditional values of civilization and corrupting the inner vitality of its life—these things are not only problems of America; they are the problems of men everywhere.

Industrial forces set in motion by steam and electricity have materially changed the structure of our civilization.

Over the past thirty years Europe’s influence has transformed Cairo. Now…we are civilized.

20 centuries of progress have brought the average citizen a vote, a national anthem, a Ford, a bank account and a high opinion of himself but not the capacity to live in high density without befouling and denuding his environment.

Our children will not know what it is to be free from sound of railways.

… post-industrial society

Across all the globe there harshly blow the winds of change

We've moved from a small world on a big planet to a big world on a small planet.

Sometimes I am worried by the thought of the effect that life in the city will have on coming generations.

Having buildings, growth models, having great progress, flyovers, and no human being is feeling for human being is a nightmare scenario.