Where there are humans, You'll find flies, And Buddhas.
The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.
Violence is not necessary to destroy a civilization. Each civilization dies from indifference toward the unique values which created it.
Humankind is able to create new conditions, a new reality. We are not fated to swim forever among the realities that are here now. . . . Everything that is worthwhile in human civilization has not only originated from but has been inspired by dreams, by imagination.
Everywhere we are told that our human resources are all to be used, that our civilization itself means the uses of everything it has - the inventions, the histories, every scrap of fact. But there is one kind of knowledge - infinitely precious, time-resistant more than monuments, here to be passed between the generations in any way it may be: never to be used. And that is poetry.
Artists are a free society's greatest advocates and its best bulwarks. Their triumphs are civilization's triumphs.
We live in a world of crisis, of challenge, and. . . it's in our galleries that we can unpack the civilizations that we're seeing the current manifestations of.
You can tell a lot about a civilization by the quality of the people found in its jails.
For it is my opinion that we enclose and celebrate the freaks of our nation and our civilization. Yellowstone National Park is no more representative of America than is Disneyland.
I represent a party which does not yet exist: the party Revolution-Civilization. This party will make the twentieth century. There will issue from it first the United States of Europe, then the United States of the World.
Civilization means conforming to a standard of behavior that may not seem natural to us.
I do not think there is such a thing as a "clash of civilizations. " When I say that Muslims as Muslims cannot be represented in the West, I was being ironic, and also referring to the fact that ninety percent of the time when people talk about "the problem of Muslims" in the West, it is to complain about the fact that Muslims have not "integrated. "
It is very natural that every one who makes anything inside themselves that is makes it entirely out of what is in them does naturally have to have two civilizations. They have to have the civilization that makes them and the civilization that has nothing to do with them.
A civilization that denies death ends by denying life.
In the cycle of a great civilization, the artist begins as priest, and ends as a clown or buffoon.
Atlantis was a highly evolved civilization where the sciences and arts were far more advanced than one might guess. Atlantis was technologically advanced in genetic engineering, computer science, inter-dimensional physics, and artistically developed with electronic music and crystal art forms.
In principle as a philosophy, a model of organising society, Communism has to be respected. As regards the use of certain methods to advance social justice and greater regulation by the state, there are certain methods that are useful. What we need is a new society, a new civilization and convergence of all that is best in both [Communism and Capitalism]
I would like to see us get this place right first before we have the arrogance to put significantly flawed civilizations out onto other planets, even though they may be utterly uninhabited.
People are willing to throw our civilization under the bus to discredit the existing system, without any proposed solution to the problems that they're willing to pointing at.
Our community of rebels, of humble truth seekers, wants to turn our culture around. We don't despise our country. We don't desire failure. We desire light, a beacon to show the world that our wealth need not show the way to more rapid destruction, but can be leveraged to heal more acres, more backyards, more communities faster than any civilization on the right path has ever done it.