Quotes About Civilization

Cities are the greatest creations of humanity.

Vale lembrar que, até a década de 1960, havia uma ideia disseminada de que os indígenas, do jeito que estava sendo conduzida a política de Estado, não chegariam a conhecer o século XXI. Tal ideia estava baseada na visão integracionista, que profetizava que os indígenas aceitariam sua condição de neobrasileiros e passariam a viver uma vida mais apropriada aos princípios da 'civilização'.

Se oggi l'uomo non mangia più l'uomo, è unicamente perché la cucina ha fatto dei progressi!

You're captives of a civilizational system that more or less compels you to go on destroying the world in order to live. … You are captives—and you have made a captive of the world itself. That's what's at stake, isn't it?—your captivity and the captivity of the world.

The barbarians are at the gates." "The barbarians broke down the gates a long time ago... They're living among us now and devouring our children.

The civilized world has abandoned us to our fate. We would never have come back to this land if we weren't pushed here by the hatred of Europe's Christians, and now that we're here, they won't let us fight, lest we antagonize the Arabs in their midst.

His civilization had flourished for thousands of years in the harsh and unforgiving land of Mesopotamia before anyone had ever heard of a place called America. And it would survive long after the great American experiment receded into history. Of this, Saladin was certain. All great empires eventually collapsed. Only Islam was forever. The

Around ten thousand years before Jesus walked the earth, humans taught themselves how to grow grains like barley and wheat, and soon after, dates, figs, and pomegranates.

Where tillage begins, other arts follow. The farmers therefore are the founders of human civilization.

Let us never forget that the cultivation of the earth is the most important labor of man. When tillage begins, other arts follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of civilization.

When tillage begins, other arts follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of human civilization.

Consider your origin you were not born to live like brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.

I could never share the fate of a civilization that ostracizes rice. In no way could I trust people who believe yogurt is superior to rice.

Dio è la voce dell'assente, l'assente più presente di tutti sei tu, finto Dio che fingi di essere un poeta malato di civiltà: parole inusuali e ineguali usi a tuo uso e consumo per corrompere, bastonare gli umani: io vivo e questo ti dispiace, ho un corpo e questo ti rammarica.

After an attack with weapons of mass destruction by a terrorist group or a terrorist nation, the next major threat to our existence is the violent decay of our civilization due to violence-enabling in the electronic media.

You've got to understand that the world's full of men who are little better than animals.... Problem is that a man is different from an animal. In the quiet afterward we know when we've done wrong.

This is good, life must continue, we are fighting barbarians, but we must remain human.

Adventure and excitement are the two things missing from civilization. Danger keeps you on your toes. You'll never feel as alive as when death is over your shoulder.

My wages came to me not to satisfy any need-- mine were anyway private, affectionate, atrocious-- but to make my needs universal: to incorporate me in the mainstream of men and things in which my work was not for me but for everybody; and to take what was special in me, my most secure and precious sense of myself, and make it general and banal. In short, I was to be civilized.

modern statecraft is largely a project of internal colonization, often glossed, as it is in imperial rhetoric, as a "civilizing mission.

Apart from the museums that anchor the great cities of Europe and America, the Roman Catholic Church is what remains of "Christendom," the generating aesthetic and intellectual tradition of Western civilization.

Japan was taming her own Wild West as the Americans had theirs: by bringing the light of civilization through divine war against a barbaric enemy.

Wherever farming took root, violence emerged as a more important feature of social life.

Beginning about ten thousand years ago, cities began to emerge. Although tiny by today's standards, they were the centers of the first "civilizations," a word derived from civitas, which means "citizenship" or "inhabitants of a city" in Latin. Because farming created assets to plunder and to protect, it also created a requirement for inventory accounting.