Quotes About Civilization

What most people don't seem to realize is that there is just as much money to be made out of the wreckage of a civilization as from the upbuilding of one.

necessary, she would take them. Today was the day! There was no one to tell Scarlett that her own personality, frighteningly vital though it was, was more attractive than any masquerade she might adopt. Had she been told, she would have been pleased but unbelieving. And the civilization of which she was a part would have been unbelieving too, for at no time, before or since, had so low a premium been placed on feminine naturalness. As

What most people don't seem to realize is that there is just as much money to be made out of the wreckage of a civilization as from the upbuilding of one.

Modern technology has become a total phenomenon for civilization, the defining force of a new social order in which efficiency is no longer an option but a necessity imposed on all human activity.

Everywhere in the world the industrial regime tends to make the unorganized or unorganizable individual, the pauper, into the victim of a kind of human sacrifice offered to the gods of civilization.

The political technology of the Industrial age is no longer appropriate technology for the new civilization taking form around us. Our politics are obsolete.

Stone Age. Bronze Age. Iron Age. We define entire epics of humanity by the technology they use.

Technology and comfort - having those, people speak of culture, but do not have it.

There is a demon in technology. It was put there by man and man will have to exorcise it before technological civilization can achieve the eighteenth-century ideal of humane civilized life.

History is not just the evolution of technology; it is the evolution of thought.

If mankind were to continue in other than the present barbarism, a new path must be found, a new civilization based on some other method than technology

We've got paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions, and god-like technologies.

Civilization depends on our expanding ability to produce food efficiently, which has markedly accelerated thanks to science and technology.

The civilized man is technologically ahead of — intellectually behind — his time.

There is no document of civilization which is not at the same time a document of barbarism.

The time has come to choose a new direction of global development, to opt for a new civilization.

All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution.

Everybody thinks that this civilization has lasted a very long time but it really does take very few grandfathers' granddaughters to take us back to the dark ages.

Man cannot pretend to be higher in ethics, spirituality, advancement, or civilization than other creatures and at the same time live by lower standards than the vulture or hyena.

The future for us is the foreseeable future. The South Asian, however, feels that it is perfectly realistic to think of a 'long time' in terms of thousands of years.

I think of myself as a kind of reporter; I report on the nature of certain events. I think of art as a report on civilization at a certain time.

Everything in modern civilization is based on this concept of time which is not really valid.

Food first, then talk. Life looks better on a full stomach. People become civilized when they break bread together. Margaret had taught me that.

PUTIN: "No civilized state can live without a legislative institution. A great deal depends on the Duma. We expect efficient, systematic work." ALEXANDER