Civilization Quotes
When people stargazing, they stare at stars, and many other things which they've already presumed commonly and universally as stars.
Civilization is a myth. That is the truth this world has taught us. We have not risen above our baser instincts... That is what always has and always will drive us.
Science is a trigger of changes of civilization. Religion is the failsafe of science performance.
Just like you silly bums, I have a personal sky god. I bow to him, as you do to your airy-fairy sod. He prefers I call him Mr. NOT.
Arise, my friend – the world is wailing for kindness – it is wailing for compassion – it is wailing for love.
Civilized are not those who never make mistakes – civilized are those who learn from their mistakes instead of trying to justify them.
Humanity is not a word my friend. It is a symbol – a symbol of hope – a symbol of wisdom – yet this very symbol has become disgraced by our faults and deluded justification of mistakes.
Greed is a contagious mental illness without which civilization as we know it would not have been possible.
Just like how most if not all poor boys look up to and aspire to someday be rich men, most if not all underdeveloped and developing countries look up to and aspire to someday be developed countries.
Common man's patience will bring him more happiness than common man's power.
In a democracy, there will be more complaints but less crisis, in a dictatorship more silence but much more suffering.
The purpose of a writer is to keep civilisation from destroying itself.", September 14, 1958)
Cities are more than the sum of their infrastructure. They transcend brick and mortar, concrete and steel. They're the vessels into which human knowledge is poured.
Caius was one of those who gloried in his ignorance, called his lack of letters purity, scorned any subtlety of thought or expression. A man for his time, indeed.
Music and symbols, they're older than human race.Prehuman beings used them to teach early mankind.
Jesuits so dominated the study of earthquakes that seismology became known as 'the Jesuit Science.
The first person to measure the rate of acceleration of a free falling body was Father Giambattista Riccioli.
A civilization is not destroyed by wicked people it is not necessary that people be wicked but only that they be spineless.
Nothing holds back human progress as frequently as the misbelief that the words ‘impossible’ and ‘improbable’ are synonyms.
And here was the moment. The end of it all, for civilization was merely another name for friendship, and friendship was coming to an end.
It seems to me that you can almost define civilization by saying it's people who are not willing to hurt other people because the other people are different.
Peace ought not be regarded the height of civilization, else like barbarians we forever battle for peace.
The way of the consumerist culture is to spend so much energy chasing happiness that it has none left to be happy.
Civilization must be preserved, ' says he.'Civilization's doing fine, ' I said. 'We just don't happen to be where it is.
Death is number one on the list of things that we wish were possible to leave behind when we escaped barbarism.
We human beings regard ourselves as (or compare ourselves to) animals only when it suits us.
Our political system is now run by the Big People for their own interests. If they ever deign to notice the Little People, it is with disdain and contempt.
The only hope for civilization is the greater freedom, development and equality of women.
1) everything that’s already in the world when you’re born is just normal
When we were on trees, others had lived in skies. When we reach skies, descendant of primitives will someday convey this message.
...we can endure neither our vices nor the remedies needed to cure them.
Humanity's savageness is what makes it civilized. Technology, trade, computers, space travel. All are products of competition and conflict.
If this is called civilization, then I am afraid humanity is no more civilized than the Tyrannosaurus Rex.
The employed are punished by having to do what they do not love. The self-employed are punished by the opposite.
Civilization has provided no peace, no spectacle, no assurance to the human heart which can transcend the simple, ever-changing, matchless beauty and peace of the natural world
Now that I have definitely begun to live I find myself more and more convinced that civilization with its trappings and artificialities is not so good as nature.
Thievery is for the civilized. It is what laws protect us from. I am a wild beast of no laws and no society. I want no laws. I want no more civilized things.
Whatever name civilizations give to the arrangement where a man lives with a woman, it is always better to call it a marriage.
Any system that values profit over human life is a very dangerous one indeed.
