Thursday, August 19, 2010

Civilization 4 Quotes

No other game has consumed so much of my life before as Civilization 4. I never grow tired of it and I love the little quotes that it comes out with whenever you discover a technology. Here is a complete list of all Civ 4 quotes as spoken by Star Treks Leonard Nimoy.

Agriculture

Ancient Era

"Oh farmers, pray that your summers be wet and your winters clear."

- Virgil

Animal Husbandry

Ancient Era

"Blessed be the fruit of thy cattle, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep."

- The Bible, Deut. 28:4

Archery

Ancient Era

"Do not throw the arrow which will return against you."

- Kurdish Proverb

Bronze Working

Ancient Era

"It is entirely seemly for a young man killed in battle to lie mangled by the bronze spear. In his death all things appear fair."

- Homer

Fishing

Ancient Era

"Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man how to fish and you feed him for a lifetime."

- Lao Tzu

Horseback Riding

Ancient Era

"If you speak the truth, have a foot in the stirrup."

- Turkish Proverb

Hunting

Ancient Era

"If you chase two rabbits, you will lose them both."

- Native American saying

Masonry

Ancient Era

"It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls."

- Aristophanes

Meditation

Ancient Era

"Meditation brings wisdom; lack of meditation leaves ignorance. Know well what leads you forward and what holds you back."

- The Buddha

Mining

Ancient Era

"The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones."

- Confucius

Monotheism

Ancient Era

"I am the Lord thy God. Thou shalt have no other gods before Me."

- The Bible, Exodus

Mysticism

Ancient Era

"Nature herself has imprinted on the minds of all the idea of God."

- Cicero

Polytheism

Ancient Era

"Not at all similar are the race of the immortal gods and the race of men who walk upon the earth."

- Homer

Pottery

Ancient Era

"Hath not the potter power over the clay, to make one vessel unto honor, and another unto dishonor?"

- The Bible, Romans

Priesthood

Ancient Era

"The Lord bless you and keep you; the Lord make His face to shine upon you and be gracious to you; the Lord lift up His countenance upon you and give you peace."

- The Bible, Numbers

Sailing

Ancient Era

"You can't direct the wind, but you can adjust your sails."

- Unknown

The Wheel

Ancient Era

"Put your shoulder to the wheel."

- Aesop

Writing

Ancient Era

"True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written; in writing what deserves to be read."

- Pliny the Elder

Aesthetics

Classical Era

"Art for art's sake is an empty phrase. Art for the sake of truth, art for the sake of the good and the beautiful, that is the faith I am searching for."

- George Sand

Alphabet

Classical Era

"Words have the power to both destroy and heal. When words are both true and kind, they can change our world."

- The Buddha

Calendar

Classical Era

"For everything there is a season and a time for every purpose under heaven."

- Ecclesiastes

Code of Laws

Classical Era

"To bring about the rule of righteousness in the land, so that the strong should not harm the weak."

- Hammurabi's Code; Prologue

Compass

Classical Era

"The wisest men follow their own direction."

- Euripides

Construction

Classical Era

"And on the pedestal these words appear: 'My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!' Nothing beside remains."

- Percy Bysshe Shelley

Currency

Classical Era

"Everything is worth what its purchaser will pay for it."

- Publius Syrius

Drama

Classical Era

"All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts."

- William Shakespeare

Iron Working

Classical Era

"You should hammer your iron when it is glowing hot."

- Publius Syrus

Literature

Classical Era

"Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some to be chewed and digested."

- Sir Francis Bacon

Mathematics

Classical Era

"If in other sciences we should arrive at certainty without doubt and truth without error, it behooves us to place the foundations of knowledge in mathematics."

- Roger Bacon

Metal Casting

Classical Era

"And them that take the sword shall perish by the sword."

- The Bible, Matthew

Monarchy

Classical Era

"A multitude of rulers is not a good thing. Let there be one ruler, one king."

- Herodotus

Banking

Medieval Era

"Banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies."

- Thomas Jefferson

Civil Service

Medieval Era

"The bureaucracy is expanding to meet the needs of the expanding bureaucracy."

- Unknown

Divine Right

Medieval Era

"I am the state."

- Louis XIV

Engineering

Medieval Era

"A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away."

- Antoine de Saint-Exupry

Feudalism

Medieval Era

"I will to my lord be true and faithful, and love all which he loves and shun all which he shuns."

- Anglo Saxon oath of Fealty

Guilds

Medieval Era

"People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public."

- Adam Smith

Machinery

Medieval Era

"A god from the machine."

- Menander

Music

Medieval Era

"If music be the food of love, play on."

- William Shakespeare

Optics

Medieval Era

"One doesn't discover new lands without losing sight of the shore."

- Andre Gide

Paper

Medieval Era

"I cannot live without books."

- Thomas Jefferson

Philosophy

Medieval Era

"I have gained this by philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law."

- Aristotle

Theology

Medieval Era

"Two cities have been formed by two loves: the earthly by the love of self; the heavenly by the love of God."

- St. Augustine

Astronomy

Renaissance Era

"Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another."

- Plato

Chemistry

Renaissance Era

"Chemistry means the difference between poverty and starvation and the abundant life."

- Robert Brent

Constitution

Renaissance Era

"No freeman shall be taken, imprisoned, or in any other way destroyed, except by the lawful judgment of his peers."

- The Magna Carta

Corporation

Renaissance Era

"Corporation, n. An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility."

- Ambrose Bierce

Democracy

Renaissance Era

"It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried."

- Winston Churchill

Economics

Renaissance Era

"Compound interest is the most powerful force in the universe."

- Albert Einstein

Education

Renaissance Era

"There is no wealth like knowledge, no poverty like ignorance."

- Ali ibn Abi-Talib

Gunpowder

Renaissance Era

"You can get more of what you want with a kind word and a gun than you can with just a kind word."

- Al Capone

Liberalism

Renaissance Era

"Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both."

- Benjamin Franklin

Military Science

Renaissance Era

"I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philisophy."

- John Adams

Military Tradition

Renaissance Era

"Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win."

- Sun-Tzu

Nationalism

Renaissance Era

"A man does not have himself killed for a half-pence a day or for a petty distinction. You must speak to the soul in order to electrify him."

- Napoleon Bonaparte

Printing Press

Renaissance Era

"What gunpowder did for war, the printing press has done for the mind."

- Wendell Phillips

Replaceable Parts

Renaissance Era

"The whole is more than the sum of its parts."

- Aristotle

Rifling

Renaissance Era

"Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun."

- Mao Zedong

Artillery

Industrial Era

"Artillery adds dignity to what would otherwise be a vulgar brawl."

- Frederick the Great

Assembly Line

Industrial Era

"People can have the Model T in any color - so long as it's black."

- Henry Ford

Biology

Industrial Era

"It is not the strongest of the species that survive, but the one most responsive to change."

- Charles Darwin

Combustion

Industrial Era

"Everything in life is somewhere else, and you get there in car."

- E.B. White

Communism

Industrial Era

"When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist."

- Dom Helder Camara

Electricity

Industrial Era

"We will make electricity so cheap that only the rich will burn candles."

- Thomas Edison

Fascism

Industrial Era

"The great masses of the people... will more easily fall victims to a big lie than to a small one."

- Adolf Hitler

Fission

Industrial Era

"If the radiance of a thousand suns were to burst at once into the sky, that would be like the splendor of the Mighty One... I am become Death, the Shatterer of Worlds."

- J. Robert Oppenheimer, quoting "The Bhagavad Gita"

Industrialism

Industrial Era

"There is one rule for the industrialist and that is: Make the best quality of goods possible at the lowest cost possible, paying the highest wage possible."

- Henry Ford

Medicine

Industrial Era

"As to diseases make a habit of two things - to help, or at least, to do no harm."

- Hippocrates

Physics

Industrial Era

"To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction."

- Isaac Newton

Railroad

Industrial Era

"I fooled you, I fooled you, I got pig iron, I got pig iron, I got all pig iron."

- Lonnie Donegan, "Rock Island Line"

Scientific Method

Industrial Era

"I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use."

- Galileo Galilei

Steam Power

Industrial Era

"You would make a ship sail against the winds and currents by lighting a bon-fire under her deck? I have no time for such nonsense."

- Napoleon, on Robert Fulton's Steamship

Steel

Industrial Era

"Before that steam drill shall beat me down, I'll die with my hammer in my hand."

- from "John Henry, the Steel-Driving Man"

Advanced Flight

Modern Era

"Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth - Put out my hand and touched the Face of God."

- John Gillespie Magee, Junior

Composites

Modern Era

"The whole is greater than the sum of its parts."

- Aristotle

Computers

Modern Era

"Never trust a computer you can't throw out a window."

- Steve Wozniak

Ecology

Modern Era

"We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children."

- Native American Song

Fiber Optics

Modern Era

"There is a single light of science and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere."

- Isaac Asimov

Flight

Modern Era

"For once you have tasted flight you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards, for there you have been and there you will long to return."

- Leonardo Da Vinci

Fusion

Modern Era

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."

- Arthur C. Clarke

Future Technology

Modern Era

"The future will be better tomorrow."

- Dan Quayle

Genetics

Modern Era

"Soon it will be a sin for parents to have a child which carries the heavy burden of genetic disease."

- Bob Edwards

Laser

Modern Era

"Nothing travels faster than the speed of light with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws."

- Douglas Adams

Mass Media

Modern Era

"The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about."

- Oscar Wilde

Plastics

Modern Era

"I just want to say one word to you. Just one word: plastics."

- Calder Willingham, The Graduate

Radio

Modern Era

"Then one fine mornin' she puts on a New York station. You know her life was saved by Rock 'n' Roll."

- The Velvet Underground, "Rock And Roll"

Refrigeration

Modern Era

"Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are."

- Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

Robotics

Modern Era

"The real problem is not whether machines think, but whether men do."

- B.F. Skinner

Rocketry

Modern Era

"The Earth is the cradle of the mind, but one cannot eternally live in a cradle."

- Konstantin E. Tsiolkovsky

Satellites

Modern Era

"Beep... beep... beep... beep..."

- Sputnik I

Stealth

Modern Era

"Behind a veil, unseen yet present, I was the forceful soul that moved this mighty body."

- Jean Racine

Superconductors

Modern Era

"What is happiness? The feeling that power is growing, that resistance is overcome."

- Friedrich Nietzsche

2 comments:

ryan barnes said...

awsome

Steven said...

Very nice!