Quotes About Civilization

'Humankind' is an attempt to think the human species without Nature and without humanity.

I am never interested in the individual, but in the human species and its environment.

We are a dreadful species indeed, and deserve whatever it is our techno-baubles do to us.

If you don't have manufactured items or anything we think of as 'civilization,' then you're living according to your species.

There's no question to my mind that saving our civilization and many other species is more important than our ability to do ground-based astronomy for a few decades.

CO2 is the exhaling breath of our civilization, literally... Changing that pattern requires a scope, a scale, a speed of change that is beyond what we have done in the past.

From the first day to this, sheer greed was the driving spirit of civilization.

My two interests are spirituality and politics. I would mesh them in some way; maybe try to figure out the politics of spirituality, or the spirituality of politics. Or maybe come up with this really crazy naive solution for the end of civilization.

Morocco as it is is a very fine place spoiled by civilization.

There's never been a civilization, ever in history, that has embraced homosexuality and turned away from traditional fidelity and traditional marriage, traditional child rearing, and has survived.

There is a vast difference between the savage and the civilized man, but it is never apparent to their wives until after breakfast.

Traditional marriage in the platform is the essential building block to our civilization.

Heterosexual marriage is the heart of our civilization.

Even in civilized mankind faint traces of monogamous instinct can be perceived.

Anybody who knows something about the history of the human race knows that there is no civilization which has condoned homosexual marriage widely and openly that has long survived.

Thinking is the great enemy of perfection. The habit of profound reflection, I am compelled to say, is the most pernicious of all the habits formed by civilized man.

When man is not properly trained, he is the most savage animal on the face of the globe.

If there is one place on the face of earth where all the dreams of living men have found a home from the very earliest days when man began the dream of existence, it is India.

Anyone can be a barbarian; it requires a terrible effort to remain a civilized man.

As the archaeology of our thought easily shows, man is an invention of recent date. And one perhaps nearing its end.

Courtesy is a silver lining around the dark clouds of civilization; it is the best part of refinement and in many ways, an art of heroic beauty in the vast gallery of man's cruelty and baseness.

The Fifth Amendment is an old friend and a good friend, one of the great landmarks in men's struggle to be free of tyranny, to be decent and civilized.

The makers of our Constitution . . . conferred, as against the government, the right to be let alone - the most comprehensive of rights and the right most valued by civilized men.

The skyscraper establishes the block, the block creates the street, the street offers itself to man.