Quotes About Civilization

Fancy cutting down all those beautiful trees...to make pulp for those bloody newspapers, and calling it civilisation.

The willingness to trust others even when you know you may be taken advantage of is the cornerstone of becoming civilized.

I trust the time is nigh when, with the universal assent of civilized people, all international differences shall be determined without resort to arms by the benignant processes of civilization.

Artists are the gatekeepers of truth. We are civilization's anchor. We are the compass for humanity's conscience.

Artists are the gate keepers of truth. We are civilization's radical voice.

I believe that truth is the glue that holds government together, not only our government, but civilization itself.

The difference between CVA as a terminal event and CVA as a cause of death is the difference between a worldview that recognizes the inexorable tide of natural history and a worldview that believes it is within the province of science to wrestle against those forces that stabilize our environment and our very civilization.

Now in the midst of the broken waters of my civilization rhythm begins. Clear above the flood I raise my ringing voice. In the disorder and darkness of the night, in the wind and the washing waves, I shout to my brothers--lost in the flood.

Human rights is a universal standard. It is a component of every religion and every civilization.

We believe that civilization has been created under the pressure of the exigencies of life at the cost of satisfaction of the instincts.

One... gets an impression that civilization is something which was imposed on a resisting majority by a minority which understood how to obtain possession of the means to power and coercion. It is, of course, natural to assume that these difficulties are not inherent in the nature of civilization itself but are determined by the imperfections of the cultural forms which have so far been developed.

Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock.

It is impossible to overlook the extent to which civilization is built upon a renunciation of instinct.

The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.

Civilization is a process in the service of Eros, whose purpose is to combine single human individuals, and after that families, then races, peoples and nations, into one great unity, the unity of mankind. Why this has to happen, we do not know; the work of Eros is precisely this.

The first human being who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.

It was the contrast that fascinated Mac as much as anything else. Knowing that both the wilderness and civilization were available to the nth degree, he was completely happy. I have found it is the same with many men; being able to live in the present and also in the past gives them a sense of completeness that they can get in no other way.

We must be aware of the superiority of our civilization, a system that has guaranteed well-being, respect for human rights and - in contrast with Islamic countries - respect for religious and political rights, a system that has as its value understanding of diversity and tolerance ... The West will continue to conquer peoples, even if it means a confrontation with another civilization, Islam, firmly entrenched where it was 1,400 years ago.

The true law of the race is progress and development. Whatever civilization pauses in the march of conquest, it is overthrown by the barbarian.

The Jews had a love-hate relationship with the Greek culture. They craved its civilization but resented its dominance. Josephus says they regarded Greeks as feckless, promiscuous, modernizing lightweights, yet many Jerusalemites were already living the fashionable lifestyle using Greek and Jewish names to show they could be both. Jewish conservatives disagreed; for them, the Greeks were simply idolaters.

What the fanatical Jewish conservatives regarded as heathen pollution, cosmopolitans saw as civilization. This was the start of a new pattern in Jerusalem: the more sacred she became, the more divided.

poor as Soso, found themselves among the 'arrogant sons of wealthy parents.27 We felt like the chosen few,' wrote Iremashvili, because the seminary was 'the source of Georgian intellectual life, with its historical grounds in a seemingly perfect civilisation'.

History is little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind." --- Edward Gibbon

For most of history – the next eight and a half millennia – life expectancy was around thirty.