Quotes About Civilization

Sharing is the essence of teaching. It is, I have come to believe, the essence of civilization . . . Without it, the imagination is but the echo of the self, trapped in a soundproof chamber, reverberating upon itself until it is spent in exhaustion or futility

All great philosophers, even the atheists, realized that one of the essential attributes of a civilized people is a belief that good will be rewarded and evil will be punished. In

I've managed to dodge the curse. Not all my family have. Of course, music helped me - music is all about civilization, about something worthwhile. It's all about ideas.

If civilization had been left in female hands we would still be living in grass huts.

Egypt gave birth to what later would become known as 'Western Civilization,' long before the greatness of Greece and Rome.

If you... scaled down human beings, scaled down society, if you land with a group of little boys, they are more like a scaled-down version of society than a group of little girls would be.

If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized.

What do I think of Western civilization? I think it would be a very good idea.

One civilization after another has been wrecked upon the attempt to secure sufficient leadership from a single group or class.

Not a whole lot of us are wrestling somebody for a canned food item in the supermarket or having an ax fight in the jungle clearing. Instead, we sit and think about taxes and the ozone layer.

The writer in western civilization has become not a voice of his tribe, but of his individuality. This is a very narrow-minded situation.

Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.

When you think about archaeology, archaeology is the only field that allows us to tell the story of 99 percent of our history prior to 3,000 B.C. and writing.

Men were beasts. Everyone knew that.

The more civilized we become, the more horrendous our entertainments, said Frex.

Quanto mais civilizados nos tornamos, mais horrendas são as nossas diversões.

Plus nous devenons civilisés, plus nos amusements se font horribles.

Nunca uso las palabras humanista o humanitario, porque, para mí, el ser humano es capaz de cometer los crímenes más atroces de la naturaleza.

Eu nunca uso as palavras humanista ou humanitário, pois me parece que ser humano significa ser capaz dos crimes mais hediondos da natureza.

The more civilized we become, the more horrendous our entertainments," said Frex.

Without poets, without artists, men would soon weary of nature's monotony. The sublime idea men have of the universe would collapse with dizzying speed. The order which we find in nature, and which is only an effect of art, would at once vanish. Everything would break up in chaos. There would be no seasons, no civilization, no thought, no humanity; even life would give way, and the impotent void would reign everywhere.

Yes, but I say that Nature is our enemy, that we must always fight against Nature, for she is continually bringing us back to an animal state. You may be sure that God has not put anything on this earth that is clean, pretty, elegant or accessory to our ideal; the human brain has done it.

Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiness to doubt.

The more uncivilized the man, the surer he is that he knows precisely what is right and what is wrong. All human progress, even in morals, has been the work of men who have doubted the current moral values, not of men who have whooped them up and tried to enforce them. The truly civilized man is always skeptical and tolerant, in this field as in all others. His culture is based on - I am not too sure.