Civilization Quotes
Unorganized morality is called sociability. Organized morality is called civilization. Unorganized immorality is called barbarity. Organized immorality is called statism.
Only the man who has enough good in him to feel the justice of the penalty can be punished
...that human hunger birthed the Civ'lize, but human hunger killed it too.
Back then: to be regarded as well-known, one had to be great. Today: to be regarded as great, one has to be well-known.
Dramatic uprising of stupidity can start from nowhere and only be seen when it reaches it's climax.
Civilization transformed man from a food gatherer to a gatherer of pieces of paper: diplomas, employment contracts, money, etc.
All of Western civilization is highly influenced by the Bible, so much so that today people take for granted that our morals and our values are not common sense, but biblically based.
Where the human need for order meetsthe human tendency to mayhem, where civilization runs smack against its discontents, you find friction, and a great deal of general wear and tear.
A call to embrace democracy is the worst insult to a society that is still alien to civilisation. It is like being asked to dance to the tune of mob justice.
Girls should be taught at school that giving birth to an unnaturally over-sized western baby that no longer fits down the birth canal may lead to a multitude of long term health problems.
If human beings were really progressive creatures, then all boys would be smarter, healthier, and, wealthier, than their grandfathers.
The missing link between humans and apes? It's certainly those brutes who haven't yet learned to respect privacy.
The inventors of tools enhance civilization, but the author of ideas enables them to invent.
this observation leads Rozin to a stunning conclusion: "Disgust is the basic emotion of civilization.
The barbarians never take a city until someone holds the gates open to them. And it's your own multicultural authorities who will do it for you
Cultures that do not wish to exist cannot be dissuaded from destroying themselves.
The mark of the truly civilized is their (truly baffling to the likes of you and me) patience with what truly baffles.
I think in our desire to create a better America, we have to have civilized debate in this country and not just yelling.
Of all the world's civilizations, America was the one that most needed losers.
America's civilization perturbs the trajectories of all other civilizations just by existing.
Super-eruption of mount Toba, 76, 000 years ago had wiped out a previous great civilization on earth.
Every time there was conquest, it brought trade, new ideas, and inventions. They made civilization evolve to new heights. Humans soar on the wings of our violent nature. There's no other way.
Green meant water, green patches meant farmers and farmers meant agriculture. Agriculture meant food to eat and food to sell, which meant towns and transport. They had reached civilization.
The people who build high, strong fences are the ones who survive the best. You deny that reality only at the risk of being driven into the wilderness yourself.
Before civilization, artists painted for the living. Today, most paint for a living.
The civilized man is technologically ahead of — intellectually behind — his time.
It ain't technology that enhances the civilization..but the way mankind perceives nature from all standpoints.
The more civilized people are, the more honorable working hard is to them. As a result, the more civilized we get, the less we live.
Old Age homes are civilization's dumpsites for human beings who it cannot exploit further.
It was Francisco de Vitoria, a Catholic priest and professor, who earned the title of father of international law.
Wherever we look, the work of the chemist has raised the level of our civilization and has increased the productive capacity of our nation.
So much for progress. How quickly civilization could dissolve into its more ugly elements.
I am well convinced that Aerial Navigation will form a most prominent feature in the progress of civilization. (1804)
Revenge is a human trait, one that has been the cause of the destruction of civilisations many times over. But the goblins live on in peace and harmony, taking little notice of us and our mistakes.
Primary purposes of a mirror: (1) To help civilized men realize their imperfections, and, (2) To help the imperfect hide their imperfections.
The philosopher seeks a generality beyond the boundaries of science
No one is safe from nature's savagery, not even the innocent. Only beauty is consistent. Gabrielle envisions a time when the Savage Garden will overtake civilizations and destroy it.
The flush toilet, more than any single invention, has 'civilized' us in a way that religion and law could never accomplish.
Let the war turn off the families. Our civilization is flinging itself to pieces. Stand back from the centrifuge.
The flaw in being civilized is that it permit’s the uncivilized among us to perpetrate horrific crimes against us in the name of freedom and equality.Foreword 'RHG