Civilization - Quotes

Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty, and dies with chaos. - Will Durant

Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities. - Mark Twain

Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men. - Jane Addams

Civilization is the lamb's skin in which barbarism masquerades. - Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men. - Ayn Rand

Civilization will not attain to its perfection until the last stone from the last church falls on the last priest. - Emile Zola

Civilization wrecks the planet from seafloor to stratosphere. - Richard Bach 

Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing. - Robert E. Howard

Every civilization depends upon the quality of the individuals it produces. - Frank Herbert

Intelligent discontent is the mainspring of civilization. - Eugene Victor Debs

It is the business of future to be dangerous … The major advances in civilization are processes that all but wreck the societies in which they occur. - Alfred North Whitehead

Nothing living should ever be treated with contempt. Whatever it is that lives, a man, a tree, or a bird, should be touched gently, because the time is short. Civilization is another word for respect for life. - Elizabeth Goudge

One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person. - William Feather

Since the same human mire remains beneath, does not all civilisation reduce itself to the superiority of smelling nice and living well? - Emile Zola

The future of civilisation depends on our overcoming the meaninglessness and hopelessness that characterizes the thoughts of men today. - Albert Schweitzer

The greatest task before civilization at present is to make machines what they ought to be, the slaves, instead of the masters of men. - Havelock Ellis

The man who first abused his fellows with swear-words instead of bashing their brains out with a club should be counted among those who laid the foundations of civilization. - Sir John Denham

The same old hypocrisy. Life is a fight, and the strongest wins. All civilization does is hide the blood and cover up the hate with pretty words! - Ursula K. Le Guin

We are all civilized people, which means that we are all savages at heart but observing a few amenities of civilized behaviour. - Tennessee Williams

You can tell a lot about a civilization by the quality of the people found in its jails. - David Gerrold

Quote Worthy

If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself. - Confucius

The vast majority of human beings dislike and even dread all notions with which they are not familiar. Hence it comes about that at their first appearance innovators have always been derided as fools and madmen. - Aldous Huxley 

Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged. - Helen Keller

No one can pass through life, any more than he can pass through a bit of country, without leaving tracks behind, and those tracks may often be helpful to those coming after him in finding their way. - Sir Robert Baden-Powell

Non-violence is not a cover for cowardice, but it is the supreme virtue of the brave. Exercise of non-violence requires far greater bravery than that of swordsmanship. Cowardice is wholly inconsistent with non-violence. - Mahatma Gandhi 

Two Wolves

              An old Cherokee told his grandson, “My son, there is a battle between two wolves inside us all. One is Evil. It is anger, jealousy, greed, resentment, inferiority, lies, and ego. The other is Good. It is joy, peace, love, hope, humility, kindness, empathy, and truth.”

              The boy thought about it, and asked, “Grandfather, which wolf wins?”

              The old man quietly replied, “The one you feed.”

Food For Thought

If ever a man and his wife, or a man and his mistress, who pass nights as well as days together, absolutely lay aside all good breeding, their intimacy will soon degenerate into a coarse familiarity, infallibly productive of contempt or disgust. - Lord Chesterfield

It is not enough to have a dream, unless you are willing to pursue it. It is not enough to know what is right, unless you are strong enough to do it. It is not enough to learn the truth, unless you also learn to live it. It is not enough to reach for love, unless you care enough to give it. - Samuel Smiles

Let us be about setting high standards for life, love, creativity, and wisdom. If our expectations in these areas are low, we are not likely to experience wellness. Setting high standards makes every day and every decade worth looking forward to. - Greg Anderson

A Balancing Act

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Colours - Quotes

A world without colour is an impossible conception. It would be a world of mental darkness, of frustration, and no other gifts of civilization could, in any wise, compensate us for the loss of chromatic values. We should go mad in a colourless world. - Unknown

A world without colour would definitely be a dull place. Black-and-white photography is a fun exercise in aesthetics, but imagine if one day we all woke up to find flowers that were only shades of grey! Or fall colour that was as hue-less as rainy-day clouds. - Rob Sheppard

Colour is a highly subjective and powerful means of communicating ideas. - Paul Martin Lester

Don't think of colour as a little thing. Think of it as one of the greatest we know, and rejoice in it, train yourself to see it everywhere, to know its perfect harmonies and splendid contrasts, its delicate gradations, its depth and power. A deal of our happiness comes through colour, and much more can come if we will let it. - Hildegarde Hawthorne

The best colour in the whole world, is the one that looks good, on you. - Coco Chanel

Life

All is well. You did not come here to fix a broken world. The world is not broken. You came here to live a wonderful life. And if you can learn to relax a little and let it all in, you will begin to see the universe present you with all that you have asked for. - Abraham

Were you to live three thousand years, or even thirty thousand, remember that the sole life which a man can lose is that which he is living at the moment; and furthermore, that he can have no other life except the one he loses... - Marcus Aurelius

Every man is the architect of his own life. He builds it just the way he wants it. However, after he has built what he wants, he sometimes decides that he doesn’t like what he has built and looks for someone or something to blame instead of changing himself. - Sydney Madwed

Friends

People’s lives change. To keep all your old friends is like keeping all your old clothes – pretty soon your closet is so jammed and everything so crushed you can’t find anything to wear. Help these friends when they need you; bless the years and happy times when you meant a lot to each other, but try not to have the guilts if new people mean more to you now. - Helen Gurley Brown

Someone has said that a friend is a bank of credit on which we can draw supplies of confidence, counsel, sympathy, help, and love. And that is true, for if you have a genuine friend, you possess riches greater than silver or gold. Which, of course, brings us to the other side of the question: Are you, and am I, the kind of friend that others can treasure? - Esther Baldwin York

There is no friend like the old friend who has shared our morning days, No greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise; Fame is the scentless sunflower, with gaudy crown of gold; But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold. - Oliver Wendell Holmes

We learn our virtues from our friends who love us; our faults from the enemy who hates us. We cannot easily discover our real character from a friend. He is a mirror, on which the warmth of our breath impedes the clearness of the reflection. - Jean Paul Richter

Commitment - Quotes

A total commitment is paramount to reaching the ultimate in performance. - Unknown

Commitment is a binding, but happy, response to duty. It is at once peaceful yet compelling, for it obligates one to action. It is essential to the good life. It is doing what everyone can do. - James M. Paramore

Commitment is what transforms a promise into reality. It is the words that speak boldly of your intentions. And the actions which speak louder than the words. It is making the time when there is none. Coming through time after time after time, year after year after year. Commitment is the stuff character is made of; the power to change the face of things. It is the daily triumph of integrity over skepticism. - Unknown

Commitment unlocks the doors of imagination, allows vision, and gives us the ‘right stuff’ to turn our dreams into reality. - James Womack

If you have a strong commitment to your goals and dreams, if you wake up every day with a passion to do your job, everything is possible. - Chantal Petitclerc

Individual commitment to a group effort – that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work. - Vince Lombardi

Stay committed to your decisions, but stay flexible in your approach. - Tom Robbins

The quality of a person’s life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavour. - Vincent Lombardi

The relationship between commitment and doubt is by no means an antagonistic one. Commitment is healthiest when it is not without doubt but in spite of doubt. - Rollo May 

The secret  of contentment is knowing how to enjoy what you have, and to be able to lose all desire for things beyond your reach. - Lin Yutang

Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative and creation, there is one elementary truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one's favour all manner of unforeseen incidents, meetings and material assistance which no man could have dreamed would have come his way. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

We cannot will to have insights. We cannot will to have creativity, Bu,t we can will to give ourselves to the creative experience with intensity of dedication and commitment. - Rollo May

You need to make a commitment, and once you make it, then life will give you some answers. - Les Brown

Quote Worthy

A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What one can be, one must be. - Abraham Maslow

The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who do not do anything about it. - Albert Einstein

The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible. - David Viscott

Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down. - Oprah Winfrey

A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that’s unlocked and opens inwards; as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push. - Ludwig Wittgenstein

Keep your wits open! Observe! Study! but above all, think! and when a noble image is indelibly impressed upon the mind – Act! - Orison Swett Marden

You can never have a revolution in order to establish democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution. - Gilbert Keith Chesterton

We all need the waters of the Mercy River. Though they don't run deep, there's usually enough, just enough, for the extravagance of our lives. - Jonis Agee