Quotes About Civilization

La civilización le ha corrompido, le ha hecho volverse humanitario y vegetariano.

Por maior que seja este império, ele não é mais que uma grande prisão e o imperador que detém as chaves dela é o seu carcereiro, mas os carcereiros não vivem muito melhor do que os prisioneiros.» Ou isto: «Os russos preocupam-se muito menos em ser civilizados do que em fazer crer que o são.»

Dans un pays civilisé, une guerre civile éclaterait, affirmait à un certain moment le héros de la pièce, mais chez nous il n'y a pas de citoyens, il s'agira donc d'une guerre entre laquais. Ce n'est pas pire qu'une guerre civile, mais c'est un peu plus répugnant, plus misérable. " Nikolai Brandeis

I didn't cry. Real things don't make me cry. Only false or sentimental things can do that. In this respect I'm like most civilised humans.

great civilization arises. The state encroaches on freedom and demands more power. People take less responsibility for themselves and want more handouts from the government. Taxes go up to pay for the handouts. The size of government explodes and economic growth slows.

Artificial Intelligence leaves no doubt that it wants its audiences to enter a realm of pure fantasy when it identifies one of the last remaining islands of civilization as New Jersey.

We are people of peace. We are followers of the Christ who was and is the Prince of Peace. But there are times when we must stand up for right and decency, for freedom and civilization, just as Moroni rallied his people in his day to the defense of their wives, their children, and the cause of liberty.

It had all the elements needed for an industrial revolution centuries before it would occur in Europe. Yet, for one reason or another, China stumbled. Why did the world's dominant civilization falter on the verge of an even more glorious future? It is one of the greatest mysteries of history, and scholars will ponder the question for years to come.

We're painted savages, nothing more, in spite of what we like to think of as some thousands of years of civilization. Only our present paint's called clothing and our caves called buildings

But the place which you have selected for your camp, though never so rough and grim, begins at once to have its attractions, and becomes a very centre of civilization to you: "Home is home, be it never so homely."

A cat is an example of sophistication minus civilization.

High mountains are a feeling, but the hum Of human cities torture...

CIVILIZATION. A concerted effort to remedy the blunders and check the practical joking of God.

What all of us know put together don't mean anything. Nothing don't mean anything. We are here for a spell and pass on. Anyone who thinks that civilization has advanced is an egotist.

There was no such thing as civilization until individuals ceased carrying arms, and agreed to refer their differences to the courts.

The reputations of the nineteenth century will one day be quoted to prove its barbarism.

We are creatures trapped in culture.

I think a civilization is created out of some kind of sublimation of violence. When the violence gets too sublimated, you get a sick civilization.

For those wounded by civilization, yoga is a healing salve.

We will never have true civilization until we have learned to recognize the rights of others.

We are monkeys with money and guns.

In a civilisation frankly materialistic and based upon property, not soul, it is inevitable that property shall be exalted over soul, that crimes against property shall be considered far more serious than crimes against the person.

Essentially a moral man, his rigid New England morality has suffered a sea change and developed into the morality of the master-man of affairs, equally rigid, equally uncompromising, but essentially Jesuitical in that he believes in doing wrong that right may come of it. He is absolutely certain that civilization and progress rest on his shoulders and upon the shoulders of the small group of men like him.

La raza humana está destinada a internarse más y más en la noche de los tiempos primitivos, hasta que vuelva a empezar su sangrante marcha hacia la nueva civilización.