A civilization that only looks inward will stagnate. We have to keep looking outward; we have to keep finding new avenues for human endeavor and human expression.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Civilization never stands still; if in one country it is falling back, in another it is changing, evolving, becoming more complicated, bringing fresh experience to body and mind, breeding new desires, and exploiting Nature's cupboard for their satisfaction.
Civilization is a failure. We need to think what we can do together in love and peace.
Our civilization is now in the transition stage between the age of warring empires and a new age of world unity and peace.
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.
Civilization in its present form hasn't got long.
My hope is that we continue to nurture the places that we love, but that we also look outside our immediate worlds.
Our civilization has evolved through the continuous adjustment of society to the stimulus of new knowledge.
Against the dark background of this contemporary civilization of well-being, even the arts tend to mingle, to lose their identity.
The further human society drifts away from nature, the less we understand interdependence.
We are becoming able to see the pursuit of external power for what it is and the futility of trying to escape the pain of powerlessness by changing the world. When we look inward, not outward, we can dismantle the parts of our personalities that have controlled us for so long - such as anger, jealousy, vindictiveness, superiority, inferiority.