It ain't technology that enhances the civilization..
but the way mankind perceives nature from all standpoints.
Tag: perception civilization technology
We look to Scotland for all our ideas of civilisation.
VoltaireTag: civilization scotland
Wherever we look, the work of the chemist has raised the level of our civilization and has increased the productive capacity of our nation.
Calvin CoolidgeTag: science civilization productivity chemistry
The day when two army corps can annihilate each other in one second, all civilized nations, it is to be hoped, will recoil from war and discharge their troops.
Alfred NobelTag: peace war civilization
The most frightful of all spectacles is the strength of the civilization without its mercy.
Winston S. ChurchillTag: civilization grace mercy restraint
America didn’t bypass or escape civilization. It did something far more profound, far cleverer: it simply changed what civilization could be.
A.A. GillTag: civilization america americans civilizations
But that so many scholars are barbarians does not much matter so long as a few of them are ready to help with their specialized knowledge the few independent thinkers, that is to say the poets, who try to to keep civilization alive.
Robert GravesTag: thinking knowledge poetry civilization poets scholars barbarians specialization independent-thinking
Winter arrived with December, and the world continued to suffer the loss of the Internet and most forms of communication. Supply chains were disrupted. The only mass form of personal communication was the letter, and postal workers were having their worst year ever, as they were actually meeded. Food was becoming scarcer and more expensive, as was fuel for vehicles and heating. Major cities experienced riots on a regular basis, spurred on by religious fervor and want. Civilization was on the brink of collapse.
Mark A. RaynerTag: world loss civilization communication religion letters suffering suffer winter internet letter heat december collapse supply-chain postal disruptive riots fuel supply riot supply-and-demand disruption arrive arrived autos dec disrupt heating postal-service postal-workers vehicles
That’s the thing about the collapse of civilization, Blake. It never happens according to plan – there’s no slavering horde of zombies. No actinic flash of thermonuclear war. No Earth-shuddering asteroid. The end comes in unforeseen ways; the stock market collapses, and then the banks, and then there is no food in the supermarkets, or the communications system goes down completely and inevitably, and previously amiable co-workers find themselves wrestling over the last remaining cookie that someone brought in before all the madness began.
Mark A. RaynerTag: war planning plans civilization communication madness apocalypse chaos end armageddon zombie the-end zombies cookies collapse plan end-of-the-world wrestling nuclear flash cookie communications end-times asteroid food-shortage food-storage according-to-plan bank-failure blake-given communication-system communication-systems food-rationing food-shortages not-with-a-bang stock-market-collapse thermo-nuclear thermonuclear with-a-whimper world-ending world-ends wrestle
Love as a concrete foundation for an authentically functional civilization requires the around-the-clock labors of forgiveness. Without it, Love fails, Friendship fails, Intelligence fails, Humanity: fails.
AberjhaniTag: intelligence friendship love humanity society philosophy integrity civilization grace hope forgiveness spirituality agape-love moving-on-and-letting-go
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