Civilization Change Quotes

Few can contemplate without a sense of exhilaration the splendid achievements of practical energy and technical skill, which, from the latter part of the seventeenth century, were transforming the face of material civilization, and of which England was the daring, if not too scrupulous, pioneer.

More than any other time in history, the 1990s will be a turning point for human civilization.

I think the whole thing is kind of sad, honestly, in the same way that our civilization - particularly the consumers of pop culture - has grown so used to an emasculated, bare-chested leading man that something like simply growing a mustache can impress people.

Our civilization is now in the transition stage between the age of warring empires and a new age of world unity and peace.

As civilization advances there is a continual change in the standard of human rights.

This civilization is rapidly passing away, however. Let us rejoice or else lament the fact as much as everyone of us likes; but do not let us shut our eyes to it.

Humankind has suddenly entered into a brand new relationship with our planet. Unless we quickly and profoundly change the course of our civilization, we face an immediate and grave danger of destroying the worldwide ecological system that sustains life as we know it.

I'm not so sure he's wrong about automobiles," he said, "With all their speed forward they may be a step backward for civilization-that is, spiritual civilization ... But automobiles have come, and they bring a greater change in our life than most of us expect. They are here, and almost all outward things are going to be different because of what they bring. They are going to alter war, and they are going to alter peace.

A new civilization is emerging in our lives, and blind men everywhere are trying to suppress it.

It's a difficult business, creating a new, alternative civilization.

Seoul promises to make a big investment in the transition of ecology and civilization that will transform the green crisis into a green opportunity.

The time has come to choose a new direction of global development, to opt for a new civilization.

A civilization is complicated, in the first place, because it is dynamic; that is, it is constantly changing in the passage of time, until it has perished.

Simple practices like conscious breathing and smiling are very important. They can change our civilization.

Once we allow ourselves to be disobedient to the test of an accountant's profit, we have begun to change our civilization.

Undeniably, Birdseye changed our civilization.