Quotes About Civilization

El animalismo bajo su disfraz de refinamiento civilizatorio, esconde una involución civilizatoria. Es la vuelta al panteón egipcio, poblado de dioses oscuros a los que no se puede rezar, sino tan sólo apaciguar con sacrificios humanos

In short, anyone who wonders how Western Europe helped to transform the world, for good or ill, into the global civilization that envelops us today must look to the medieval centuries for an important part of the answer.

We are all born charming, fresh and spontaneous and must be civilized before we are fit to participate in society.

After all, he meant well. Foreigners never seem to understand how little attraction an island of damp fogs, cut off from civilization, and a provincial little court has for us Parisians, who inhabit the most cultivated, powerful monarchy in the world.

History: the category of human phenomena which tends to catastrophe.

Troya, Micenas, Knossos... ciudades que durante siglos se creyó que pertenecían al mundo de los mitos pero que Schliemann, Evans y otros arqueólogos se empeñaron en demostrar su existencia y lo lograron

But you have told me," Elizabeth protested, "time and again, that the hallmark of civilization is routine." Lady D shrugged and made a fussy little chirping sound. "A lady cannot take it upon herself to occasionally change her routine? All routines need periodic readjustment.

There is every indication that we are to see new developments of the power of aggregated capital to serve civilization, and that the new developments will be made right here in America.

India is a groundwater civilization. Almost all Indians use groundwater, directly or indirectly, each day.

The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization.

Words make a world of difference. Over time, they become charged with inference and allusion and, deployed effectively, they have the power to change the very fabric of our civilisation.

There is nothing inherently conservative in the ancient world.

Eroticism is born at a time in civilisation when sexual instinct becomes deanimalised and enriched with contributions from art and from literature. A world of theatricality emerges around the act of love.

You get the feeling that many of my guests feel that the French language gives them entry into a more cultivated, more intelligent world, more highly civilised too, with rules.

The people of Egypt are an intelligent people with a glorious history who left their mark on civilization.

Well, right now, I'm very fascinated with 1920s Berlin. I mean, probably the more interesting thing would be to go to the beginning of civilization or precivilization - like polytheistic times. It would be interesting to see what came before modern religion and culture - what circumstances created the environment or the need for it.

I'm more into human nature than politics. But they're intertwined. Obviously, I live in civilization, so politics are part of my life.

gli uomini vivevano in stato di libertà, cioè nello stato degli animali, delle scimmie, del bestiame?

There died a myriad,And of the best, among them,For an old bitch gone in the teeth,For a botched civilization.Charm, smiling at the good mouth,Quick eyes gone under earth's lid,For two gross of broken statues,For a few thousand battered books.

A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values.

Are you sure you wouldn't like some toast, Phyllis? Toast is one of the triumphs of our civilisation. It must be made with very fresh bread, thickly cut; then toasted very quickly and buttered at once, so the butter is half-melted. Unsalted butter, of course; you sprinkle it with salt afterwards. Sea salt, preferably.

La tierra es un planeta mediocre, pero hay que ayudar a la civilización

The mark of a truly civilized man is confidence in the strength and security derived from the inquiring mind.

A culture is a civilization that has not yet achieved maturity, its greatest potential, nor consolidated its growth. Meanwhile--and the waiting period can be protracted--adjacent civilizations exploit it in a thousand ways, which is natural if not particularly just.