Quotes About Civilization

The gross feeder is a man in the larva state; and there are whole nations in that condition, nations without fancy or imagination,whose vast abdomens betray them.

For if we take the ages into our account, may there not be a civilization going on among brutes as well as men?

In civilization, as in a southern latitude, man degenerates at length, and yields to the incursion of more northern tribes.

Stripped of the cunning artifices of the tailor, and standing forth in the garb of Eden - what a sorry set of round-shouldered, spindle-shanked, crane-necked varlets would civilized men appear!

I call that brilliant sequence of cultural peaks The Ascent of Man.

The largest single step in the ascent of man is the change from nomad to village agriculture.

The consideration of human suffering is not one which enters into the calculations of primitive man.

Before Man made us citizens, great Nature made us men.

In fact, the 20th century I think was the most fascinating century and the whole of man civilization because so much happened.

A wasteland is a confrontation to a man of stature: an empty place, a gauntlet thrown down in challenge and defiance. A place like that cries out to be conquered and civilised.

The man who first abused his fellows with swear-words instead of bashing their brains out with a club should be counted among those who laid the foundations of civilization.

The ordinary man is the curse of civilization.

The universal regard for money is the one hopeful fact in our civilization.

He who bets on governments and government money bets against 6,000 years of recorded human history.

In societies of low civilization, there is no money.

What most people don't seem to realize is that there is just as much money to be made out of the wreckage of a civilization as from the upbuilding of one.

It is not the amount of money or natural resources a nation has that determines how civilized it would be.

Before civilization, artists painted for the living. Today, most paint for a living.

The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.

Athens, the eye of Greece, mother of arts And eloquence.

Give me an educated mother, I shall promise you the birth of a civilized, educated nation

I'm considered homophobic and crazy about these things and old fashioned. But I think that the family - father, mother, children - is fundamental to our civilisation.

France, mother of arts, of warfare, and of laws (Les Regrets)

We're finally going to get the bill for the Industrial Age. If the projections are right, it's going to be a big one: the ecological collapse of the planet.