Hold fast to the Bible. To the influence of this Book we are indebted for all the progress made in true civilization and to this we must look as our guide in the future.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
It is what you do from now on that will either move our civilization forward a few tiny steps, or else... begin to march us steadily backward.
If we cannot come together to pause, to respect our dead and the heroic lives of meaning they led, then ours is truly a civilization lost.
It is only through books that we partake of the great harvest that is human civilization across the ages.
We will never have true civilization until we have learned to recognize the rights of others.
If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships - the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world at peace.
Today our books are numberless, and one man cannot master them in a lifetime. Now that the sea-waves are dashing upon our shores, unless we keep pace with the times and acquire Western learning, we shall be left in the lurch.
The teachings of the New Testament are the most valuable guide to the best way to a civil and sustainable society the world has seen.
We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.
Civilization has given us enormous successes: going to the moon, technology. But then this is the civilisation that took us to debt, environmental crisis, every single crisis. We need a civilization where we say goodbye to these things.
Civilization is a failure. We need to think what we can do together in love and peace.