Quotes About Civilization

Una civilización que renuncia a la posibilidad de recurrir a la violencia en sus pensamientos y acciones, se destruye a sí misma. Se convierte en un rebaño de corderos, a degollar por el primero que pase.

No hay en la Historia universal obra comparable a la realizada por España (RAMIRO DE MAEZTU).

En los momentos críticos de la Historia siempre hay un pelotón de soldados que salva la civilización occidental.

The greatest paradox of them all is to speak of "civilized warfare."

As life in general constituted much pain in the form of struggles against poverty, disease, ignorance, and emotional anguish, what more civilized way for people to alleviate the same than by giving themselves to one another as brothers and sisters in deed as well as in word? A society of people hoping to become politically superior needed first to become spiritually valid.

Uprising by oppressed people, like slave and peasant rebellions have existed as long as civilisation has existed. But revolutions are more than just uprisings , they are concerted attempts to reorganise society.

Ateis laikas, kai žmogus nebejaus malonumo žudydamas. Bet kol dar taip n?ra, žmogus negali vadintis civilizuotu, jis papras?iausias barbaras, tr?kstamoji grandis tarp laukini? jo prot?vi?, kurie žudydavo kits kit? akmeniniais kirvukais d?l žalios m?sos gabalo, ir ateities žmogaus.

I was learning that in these extremely civilized circles, conflict is dealt with in a very ornate and hypocritical manner.

If any civilization is to survive, it is the morality of altruism that men have to reject.

Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.

Ideological clashes, antagonism, and fixations are as old as civilization.

The prison was very important - as everywhere on earth. Everywhere the building of a prison is the first step in the organization of a civilized state.

Before history began there must have been in the nation which writes it much progress; else there could have been no history. It is a great advance in civilisation to be able to describe the common facts of life, and perhaps, if we were to examine it, we should find that it was at least an equal advance to wish to describe them.

With civilization too comes another change: men wish not only to tell what they have seen, but also to express what they are conscious of. Barbarians feel only hunger, and that is not lyrical; but as time runs on, arise gentler emotions and finer moods and more delicate desires which need expression, and require from the artist's fancy the lightest touches and the most soothing and insinuating words.

History is merciless. History doesn't care if we pound our society down a rat hole. It's up to us to make more intelligent choices about how we live!

Courts of law, and all the paraphernalia and folly of law cannot be found in a rational state of society.

Civilization grew in the beginning from the minute that we had communication - particularly communication by sea that enabled people to get inspiration and ideas from each other and to exchange basic raw materials.

Artificial intelligence will reach human levels by around 2029. Follow that out further to, say, 2045, we will have multiplied the intelligence, the human biological machine intelligence of our civilization a billion-fold.

About the time of the expulsion of the Tarquins from Rome, the Etruscan power had reached its height.

The Bradshaws suggests an extraordinary civilisation that existed long before modern man reached the British Isles.

Horror is the natural reaction to the last 5,000 years of history.

Myths are part of our DNA. We're a civilisation with a continuous culture. The effort to modernize it keeps it alive. Readers connect with it.

Israel is a society governed by the rule of law.

I think governments are the cancer of civilization.