Quotes About Civilization

We are perhaps the only species on Earth to be conscious of the inevitability of our individual mortality. I fear that soon we shall also have to become the only species that will knowingly watch the coming of its own collective demise, or at least the demise of its civilization.

I fear that soon we shall also have to become the only species that will knowingly watch the coming of its own collective demise, or at least the demise of its civilization.

The world citizenship I am talking about is of a very different sort. It is based on the realization that globalization has led to the point where there is no longer a space on earth that is outside civilization and that political consciousness can no longer be restricted to one country, culture, or religion and thus needs to address the fate of humanity as a whole.

Man simply cannot live as the time-animal and the art-animal that he is, without history.

Pinchando insectos, sosteníamos al orden civil, defendíamos las leyes y las costumbres. No era crueldad: era civilidad.

Savages were savages, but what could one expect of civilized men who plotted massacre?

The wrong which we seek to condemn and punish,' said Taylor, 'have been so calculated, so malignant, and so devastating that civilisation cannot tolerate their being ignored, because it cannot survive it being repeated.' (Moorehead, 2011, 299)

For the first time in its history, Western Civilization is in danger of being destroyed internally by a corrupt, criminal ruling cabal which is centered around the Rockefeller interests, which include elements from the Morgan, Brown, Rothschild, Du Pont, Harriman, Kuhn-Loeb, and other groupings as well. This junta took control of the political, financial, and cultural life of America in the first two decades of the twentieth century.

Of these the earliest, Sink Civilization, rose in the valley of the Yellow River after 2000 b.c, culminated in the Chin and Han empires after 200 b.c, and was largely destroyed by Ural-Altaic invaders after a.d. 400. From this Sinic Civilization, in the same way in which Classical

What courage it would take to try to walk on the sea, even if we could see the face of Christ; but it needs much more courage to leave our false securities, our leaking boats of materialism, and to walk towards Him on the churned-up, angry sea of our civilisation.

She had been given the opportunity to participate in civilization, and she muffed it.

In the East — in Greece and Syria and Egypt — the Romans had conquered countries which had ancient and splendid traditions, and were more civilized than their conquerors.

A great library contains the diary of the human race.

I expect Woman will be the last thing civilized by Man.

I expect that Woman will be the last thing civilized by Man.

Rewilding is not about abandoning civilization but about enhancing it. It is to 'love not man the less, but Nature more'.

Mankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell.

To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization.

I'm not being pessimistic at all. I think God will eventually destroy this technological civilization. I'm very optimistic about that.

But whether the new would follow the course which the old had followed, that he did not know, and now at last he was almost certain that he did not even desire that the cycle should be repeated. He suddenly thought of all that had gone to build civilization--of slavery and conquest and war and oppression.

No beast was as noisy as man.

What mattered such little things when the very foundation of civilization, white supremacy, was threatened?

Love, bumping his head blindly against all the obstacles of civilization.

To the art of working well a civilized race would add the art of playing well.