Quotes About Civilization

civilization is not destroyed by wicked people; it is not necessary that people be wicked but only that they be spineless.

The subtle and deadly change of heart that might occur in you would be involved with the realization that a civilization is not destroyed by wicked people; it is not necessary that people be wicked, but only that they be spineless.

white Americans have supposed "Europe" and "civilization" to be synonyms—which they are not—and have been distrustful of other standards and other sources of vitality, especially those produced in America itself, and have attempted to behave in all matters as though what was east for Europe was also east for them.

And all this is happening in the richest and freest country in the world, and in the middle of the 20th century. The subtle and deadly change of heart that might occur and you would be involved with the realization that a civilization is not destroyed by wicked people; it is not necessary that people be wicked but only that they be spineless.

Furthermore, those beneath the Western heel, unlike those within the West, are aware that Germany's current role in Europe is to act as a bulwark against the "uncivilized" hordes, and since power is what the powerless want, they understand very well what we of the West want to keep, and are not deluded by our talk of a freedom that we have never been willing to share with them.

Again, the terms "civilized" and "Christian" begin to have a very strange ring, particularly in the ears of those who have been judged to be neither civilized nor Christian, when a Christian nation surrenders to a foul and violent orgy, as Germany did during the Third Reich.

The necessity, then, of those "lesser breeds without the law"—those wogs, barbarians, niggers—is this: one must not become more free, not become more base than they: must not be used as they are used, nor yet use them as their abandonment allows one to use them: therefore, they must be civilized. But, when they are civilized, they may simply "spuriously imitate [the civilizer] back again," leaving the civilizer with no satisfaction on which to rest.

noi siamo un prodotto dell'auto-addomesticazione, intenzionale o meno, tanto quanto le altre specie della domus sono prodotti dell'addomesticazione da parte nostra.

È difficile sopravvalutare l'importanza della sedentarietà e dell'affollamento che ha reso possibile: significa che in pratica tutte le malattie infettive causate da microorganismi specificatamente adattati all' homo sapiens hanno iniziato a esistere soltanto diecimila anni fa, forse molte di loro solo negli ultimi cinquemila anni; che sono un «effetto della civiltà» nel vero senso della parola.

Lo sviluppo dello stato in Mesopotamia non è stato per niente lineare. I piccoli stati della pianura alluvionale avevano, come i loro abitanti, un'aspettativa di vita molto limitata. Gli interregni erano più comuni dei «regni» ed erano normali lunghi periodi di caduta e frammentazione.

Credo che il periodo che intercorre tra la prima apparizione degli stati e la loro egemonia sui popoli non statali, per i barbari abbia rappresentato una sorta di «età dell'oro» nel senso che, sotto molti aspetti, era «meglio» essere un barbaro a causa dell'esistenza degli stati, a patto che questi stati non fossero troppo forti.

History is a record of human nature in action.

Without privacy, civilized life could not exist.

Equality, in a social sense, may be divided into that of condition, and that of rights. Equality of condition is incompatible with civilization, and is found only to exist in those communities that are but slightly removed from the savage state. In practice, it can only mean a common misery.

If we would have civilization and the exertion indispensable to its success, we must have property; if we have property, we must have its rights; if we have the rights of property, we must take those consequences of the rights of property which are inseparable from the rights themselves.

Había en él toda la majestuosidad, sencilla y grande a la voz, de una criatura primitiva, no muy alterada por la corrupción que a menudo acompaña a las costumbres civilizadas, pero que, como don natural, posee los dotes mejores de un ser humano.

Americans have been taught that their nation is civilized and humane. But, too often, U.S. actions have been uncivilized and inhumane.

Once the state has been founded, there can no longer be any heroes. They come on the scene only in uncivilized conditions.

We are at a time in history where everyone with any insight of the climate crisis that threatens our civilisation - and the entire biosphere - must speak out in clear language, no matter how uncomfortable and unprofitable that may be.

America is experiencing an Islamist cultural-political offensive designed to undermine and destroy our civilization.

Civilization is hideously fragile and there's not much between us and the horrors underneath, just about a coat of varnish.

Mr. Speaker, on September 11, 2001, the United States was attacked, and Britain stood with us. This was not only an attack against America, but against the civilized world; and Britain understood this.

'Business,' properly understood, is so central to every aspect of our civilization that Republicans should proudly announce that they are indeed 'the party of business.'

During the Holocene, we undoubtedly altered our environment significantly, clearing land, diverting water and building great cities.