Quotes About Civilization

Una sociedad civilizada no puede admitirlos porque se oponen abiertamente a las leyes de la selección y de la lucha por la existencia, que se cumplen en el organismo social como en los inferiores.

On the outside, the man of today is carefully groomed, perhaps unnecessarily and over carefully clean; while inside he is dirtier than the dirtiest animal—whose anus is as clean as its mouth, provided said animal has not been "domesticated" by "civilized" man.

main trouble with the average individuals of present-day civilization is that they refuse to think. They prefer "mob thinking". Because everybody else does it, it must be right. The real facts prove the opposite to be the case.

No, the shepherd's life in poetry has always been an ideal in which the negative features, the tearing of oneself away from the great world and the disregarding of its customs, have been the decisive elements. It was a kind of sport to imagine oneself in a situation which held the promise of liberation from the fetters of civilization whilst retaining its advantages.

History teaches us that when a barbarian race confronts a sleeping culture, the barbarian always wins.

Civilizations, I believe, come to birth and proceed to grow by successfully responding to successive challenges. They break down and go to pieces if and when a challenge confronts them which they fail to meet.

Civilizations die from suicide, not by murder.

Our lifetime may be the last that will be lived out in a technological society.

North American civilization is one of the ugliest to have emerged in human history, and it has engulfed the world. Asphalt and exhaust fumes clog the villages…. This great, though disastrous, culture can only change as we begin to stand off and see… the inveterate materialism which has become the model for cultures around the globe.

All through history, a nation or a civilization's enduring glory is articulated by its mega constructions - the pyramids, the lofty cathedrals of the Christian world.

This great question of predestination and free will, of free moral agency and accountability, and being saved by the grace of God, and damned for the glory of God, have occupied the mind of what we call the civilized world for many centuries.

The savage in man is never quite eradicated.

No race of barbarians ever existed yet offered up children for money.

We are extraordinarily lucky in the U.K. to have inherited a diverse range of cities that bear the imprints of many centuries of human habitation.

Gambling is a disease of barbarians superficially civilized.

Georgia is not just a European country, but one of the most ancient European countries.

When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as Europe.

The Russian people and Russian culture are the linchpin, the glue that binds together this unique civilization.

The earth has a skin and that skin has diseases; one of its diseases is called man.

Christianity remains to this day the greatest misfortune of humanity.

Almost everything we call higher culture is based on the spiritualization of cruelty.

There have been two great narcotics in European civilisation: Christianity and alcohol.

Society tames the wolf into a dog. And man is the most domesticated animal of all.

They have something of which they are proud. What do they call it, that which makes them proud? Culture, they call it; it distinguishes them from the goatherds.