Civilization Quotes

Poets write beautiful words to describe savagery-wrapped civilization nowadays.

Civilization depends on continually making the effort, of never giving in. It needs to be cared for by men of goodwill, protected from the dark.

The only gain of civilisation for mankind is the greater capacity for variety of sensations - and absolutely nothing more.

Gullibility is a knife at the throat of civilization.

The university system, a gift of Western civilization to the world, was developed by the Catholic Church.

Famine was the mark of a maturing agricultural society, the very badge of civilization.

This civilization is the impact of the world's consumption behavior.

What was invented with civilization was the ability of some to deny sensuality to others.

And all our yesterdays have lighted fools the way to dusty death.

It is their duty to be infantile, even against their inclination.

There is no a revolution, without a man!

Thinking the simplest rights of Civilization to The Humanitarian !

Self as such was not normal ..will be like the Justice, which lost its wings !! Both are rivals for the same man ..

The fact that Man is Nature’s perverse instantiation can only lead to the appalling conclusion that Man, too, is some kind of an artificial intelligence

You are so civilized. So polite. So brave coming here alone when you know no one here would dare to touch you. So easy to be all those things, when all the power is on your side

What was civilization ever, really, but the attempt by man to talk himself into being good?

The more civilization progresses, the hollower it becomes and the easier to destroy it.

there was no television in the Netherlands during the afternoons!

Violence is not necessary to destroy a civilization. Each civilization dies fromindifference toward the unique values which created it.

Advanced weaponry, victories in battle and space travel do not an advanced species or civilization make.

After the struggle for sheer existence, they had no energy left for a civilization.

Most of human history had been industry versus nature, with industry winning.

Pattaya is what the end of civilization will look like.

What held the civilized world together was the thinnest tissue of nothing but human will.

But, for myself, the Earth’s records had taught me to look for widest ruin as the price of highest civilization.

But the bars that held you, the bars that kept you in were the luxury and soft living. It is hard to walk out on a thing like that

I cannot think who my residents hurt but how I can give them tools to remain on the right side of civilization.

Surely it is more civilized to kill one man every few months, hold up his head for all to behold, say his name, and return home for a feast than to slaughter nameless millions.

Somewhere on the Earth tonight, my Tylla, there is a Man with a Lever, which, when he pulls it, Will Save The World. The man is now unemployed. His switch gathers dust. He himself plays pinochle.

You've made a beast of yourself, - to the beasts you may go.

The larger the pile of rubble you leave behind, the larger your place in the historical record!

Encouragement of sedentarism is perhaps the oldest "state project, " a project related to the second-oldest state project of taxation.

Civilization has made life a humanized jungle, a sugar coated jungle, but still a jungle

[What do you want to be when you grow up?] "A wrecker of civilizaton

Every civilization is a fruit from the sturdy tree of barbarism, and falls at the greatest distance from its trunk.

No university in the world has ever risen to greatness without a correspondingly great library ... When this is no longer true, then will our civilization have come to an end.

To know only one thing well is to have a barbaric mind: civilization implies the graceful relation of all varieties of experience to a central human system of thought.

They believe civilization weakens natural selection. They do nature’s work so that we do not become a soft race.

And what were the rules at St. Cloud's? What were Larch's rules? Which rules did Dr. Larch observe, which ones did he break, or replace--and with what confidence?

They say the level of civilization is proportionate to the degree of cleanliness of the skin. Assuming that man has a soul, it must, in all likelihood, be housed in the skin.

There is nothing more savage than modern civilization.

We've got to have rules and obey them. After all, we're not savages.

The constant tug between nature and civilization is what keeps on our toes. Though of course, that did rather beg the question of how you defined nature and how you defined civilization.

Handwriting enables civilization.

Civilization was a relentless war that man was doomed to lose eventually. - Pg. 195

Scientists are the true driving force of civilization.

It (modernization) is just another jungle closing in.

... civilization—a word that simply means "living in cities..."Excerpt From: Standage, Tom. “A History of the World In 6 Glasses.

There’s just as much money to be made in the wreck of a civilization as in the upbuilding of one.

What 'primitive' men called gossip, 'civilized' men call news.