Quotes About Civilization

Hemos preparado una civilización global en la cual la mayoría de los elementos cruciales dependen profundamente de la ciencia y la tecnología. También hemos dispuesto las cosas de tal forma que casi nadie comprende la ciencia y la tecnología. Esto es la receta para el desastre. Puede que podamos seguir así por un tiempo, pero tarde o temprano esta mezcla explosiva de ignorancia y poder nos explotará en la cara.

What civilization is, is 6 billion people trying to make themselves happy by standing on each other's shoulders and kicking each other's teeth in. It's not a pleasant situation.

If the ego is not regularly and repeatedly dissolved in the unbounded hyperspace of the Transcendent Other, there will always be slow drift away from the sense of self as part of nature's larger whole. The ultimate consequence of this drift is the fatal ennui that now permeates Western Civilization.

Jedi do not fight for peace. That's only a slogan, and is as misleading as slogans always are. Jedi fight for civilization, because only civilization creates peace.

It would be putting it mildly to say that the lesbian represents a threat to patriarchal protocol: Western civilization has for centuries been haunted by a fear of 'women without men'—of women indifferent or resistant to male desire.

Sadece güncel deneyimiyle yaÅŸayan bir uygarl?k esasen çorak bir uygarl?kt?r.

There is no such thing as compromising between civilization and savagery. Civilization must always defend itself against savagery or else fall to it.

Justice is not the exercise of hatred, it is the celebration of civilization.

A civilization must have laws, but there cannot be justice when a man with no conscience metes out sentences without compassion or mercy.

I would like you to teach [the orcs] civilised behaviour, said Ladyship coldly. He appeared to consider this. Yes of course, I think that would be quite possible, he said. And who would you send to teach the humans?

It was nice to think that mankind made a distinction between blowing their planet to bits by accident and doing it by design.

They've got something they do it with, I think it's called a mocracy, and it means everyone in the whole country can say who the new Tyrant is. One man ... one vet. ... Everyone has ... the vet. Except for women, of course. And children. And criminals. And slaves. And stupid people. And people of foreign extraction. And people disapproved of for, er, various reasons. And lots of other people. But everyone apart from them. It's a very enlightened civilization.

There were a lot of things he could say. Son of a bitch! would have been a good one. Or he could say, Welcome to civilization! He could have said, Laugh this one off! He might have said, Fetch! But he didn't, because if he had said any of those things then he'd have known that what he had just done was murder.

the queen appeared as innocent as one of those mountains which smoke a little, and then one day end up causing a whole civilization to become an art installation

You always knew where you stood with Quezovercoatl. It was generally with a lot of people on top of a great stepped pyramid with someone in an elegant feathered headdress chipping an exquisite obsidian knife for your very own personal use.

Barbarism? Hah! When we kills people we do it there and then, lookin' 'em in the eye, and we'd be happy to buy 'em a drink in the next world, no harm done. I never knew a barbarian who cut up people slowly in little rooms, or tortured women to make 'em look pretty, or put poison in people's grub. Civilization? If that's civilization, you can shove it where the sun don't shine!

It sucks all the life right out of you, civilisation. It killed Old Vincent the Ripper, said Boy Willie. He choked to death on a concubine. There was no sound but the hiss of snow in the fire and a number of people thinking fast. I think you mean cucumber, said the bard. That's right, cucumber, said Boy Willie. I've never been good at them long words. Very important difference in a salad situation. said Cohen.

Species other than man have rights, too. Having finished all the requisites of our proud, materialistic civilization, our neon-lit society, does nature, which is the basis of our existence, have the right to live on? Do we have enough reverence for life to concede to wilderness this right?

The main affliction of our modern civilization is that we don't know how to handle the suffering inside us and we try to cover it up with all kinds of consumption.

it's nice if everyone sits down together to enjoy three sounds of the bell, nine times of breathing in and out. People practicing breathing with a small bell in this way are able to enjoy much peace and harmony together. That is what I call true civilization. You don't need a lot of modern gadgets in order to be civilized. You need only a small bell, a quiet space, and your mindful in-breath and out-breath.

To regret religion is to regret Western civilization.

It is only by having desire thwarted, and thereby learning to control it — in other words, by becoming civilized — that men become fully human.

A crude culture makes a coarse people, and private refinement cannot long survive public excess. There is a Gresham's law of culture as well as of money: the bad drives out the good, unless the good is defended.

Western civilization places so much emphasis on the idea of hope that we sacrifice the present moment. Hope is for the future. It cannot help us discover joy, peace, or enlightenment in the present moment.