Civilization Quotes
There is no way I can avoid thinking about the kind of world I belong to. The abuse of utopias disfigures everything.
The weakest ones are the wickedest cruel When the strongest ones in gentleness rule!
To what do I attribute our decline? It's far easier to be shocking than charming.
The Message of Mohammad is not a set of metaphysical phenomena. It is a complete civilization.
His insights have come to him through a crack in the veneer of civilization, which was also a crack in his own soul. He had the courage to look in this direction.
Orgy-porgy, round and round and round, beating one another in six-eight time.
Selfishness is not a virtue. Altruism is not a moral weakness. Taxation is the price we pay for civilization.
Living in a world where people measure their happiness by self-indulgence and decadence, Is like watching a whole society being pushed into the abyss of perpetual decay and aberrations.
We have a name for the sum of grievances and compromises, this sheer normality of life lived among other people. We call it civilization. Culture, society, the workaday interactions of ordinary time.
One measure of a civilization, in fact, is the percentage of misfits in its society.
The true mark of English conversation is not being able to tell when you've been insulted. I think the more sophisticated society becomes, the more it hides behind the masks it manufactures.
We are in a mutually dependent society, called civilization, and government is the oil that keeps it running and the lifeblood that carries oxygen to the various parts of the civic body.
...a woman smart and persistent enough that even a PhD in psychology hasn't clouded her insight into how people think and act.
Civilization is always threatened from below, by patterns of belief and emotion that may once have been useful to our ancestors, but that are useful no longer.
The modern man is usually in a hurry to get to a destination from which he will sooner or later suffer from and at times complain about boredom.
What is the point of having a civilization, if we do not practice being civilized!
It is a science fact that some animals do dream.It'll someday lead them to places better than zoo.
Throughout human history, countries rise and fall. But not America--we continue to rise and rise, like dough, until Jesus bakes us in the fiery Afterscape of the Rapture.
Roads remain the essential network of the non-virtual world. They are the infrastructure upon which almost all other infrastructure depends. They are the paths of human endeavor.
Be as intellectual as you like about it, but India is brilliantly mad. And if you want to love it, you have to hate it first.
The striking thing is that the transatlantic divergence in working patterns has coincided almost exactly with a comparable convergence in religiosity. Europeans not only work less
And this also, " said Marlow suddenly, "has been one of the dark places of the earth.
I am torn between the freedom of this adventure and the benefits of civilization despite its constraints.
The most frightful of all spectacles is the strength of the civilization without its mercy.
The collective consciousness of mankind defines the existence and sustainability of this civilization.
Every civilisation has had its irrational but reassuring myth. Previous civilisations have used their culture to sing about it and tell stories about it. Ours has used its mathematics to prove it.
Once information slipped the bonds of gravity and friction, it tended to gather where it was most valuable.
Shaving was invented to kill time before a date.
Cities force growth and make men talkative and entertaining, but they make them artificial. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Any nation that wishes to enjoy the fruits of development and civilization, must follow the golden rules of this scripture as a national policy and culture.
in order to do evil, must first believe that what they are doing is good, otherwise they can't do it.
while modernity is not Christianity, modernity is the product of a Christian civilization. Lately the defects of modernity have been made plain to us while its virtues have been taken for granted.
Civilization is in fact the longest story of all. Civilization can persist through a series of economies.
a single generation enamoured of foreign ways is almost enough in history to risk the whole continuity of civilization and learning.
Nations rise and fall, flourish and decay, by what they believe in and by what their culture stands for.
The general air of insecurity and affection made it too easy for him to imagine these once-a-year fabulous creatures as the cubicle dwellers most of them were in everyday life.
Thanks to arranged marriages: There are countless women who have never been their husband's girlfriend.
During the first millennium BCE, even the beer-loving Mesopotamians turned their backs on beer, which was dethroned as the most cultured and civilized of drinks, and the age of wine began.
In its broad sense, civilization means not only comfort in daily necessities but also the refining of knowledge and the cultivation of virtue so as to elevate human life to a higher plane.
An angry artist tells people what (he thinks) they need to hear. A hungry artist tells people what (he thinks) they want to hear.
Modern civilisation has based its specific foundation on the principle of liberty which states that man is not a mere instrument to be used by others but rather a main autonomous living being.