Quotes About Civilization

My goal in life is to change the entire social and economic structure of western civilization, to make it a feminist world.

Our entire much-praised technological progress, and civilization generally, could be compared to an axe in the hand of a pathological criminal.

If aliens did visit us, I'd be embarrassed to tell them we still dig fossil fuels from the ground as a source of energy.

I had no idea of the historical evolution of the civilized world's music and had not realized that all modern music owes everything to Bach.

School curricula that ignore the arts produce highly educated Barbarians

Has it struck you that the music which is regarded as the most sublime in western civilization, which is the music of Bach, is called baroque?

The life of the arts is far from an interruption, a distraction, in the life of a nation, is close to the center of a nation's purpose-and is a test of the quality of a nations' civilization.

The Greeks possessed a knowledge of human nature we seem hardly able to attain to without passing through the strengthening hibernation of a new barbarism.

It may be a mistake, that man, in a state of nature, is more disposed to cruelty than courtesy

Gorillas are almost altruistic in nature. There's very little if any 'me-itis.' When I get back to civilization I'm always appalled by 'me, me, me.'

Divine Nature gave the fields, human art built the cities.

I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all.

Wilderness itself is the basis of all our civilization. I wonder if we have enough reverence for life to concede to wilderness the right to live on?

Man was not intended by nature to live in communities and be civilized.

One of the great dreams of man must be to find some place between the extremes of nature and civilization where it is possible to live without regret.

I think that sexuality is the part of human beings that is closest to nature. And nature is dangerous somehow, yes, if you put nature against civilisation, nature is definitely a threat.

Nihilism is a natural consequence of a culture (or civilization) ruled and regulated by categories that mask manipulation, mastery and domination of peoples and nature.

The idea of nature contains, though often unnoticed, an extraordinary amount of human history.

The civilized man is a larger mind but a more imperfect nature than the savage.

The apparatus defeats its own purpose if its purpose is to create a humane existence on the basis of a humanized nature.

Human civilization is not something achieved against nature; it is rather the outcome of the working of the innate qualities of man.

Divine nature gave us fields, human skill built our cities. -Divina natura dedit agros, ars humana aedificavit urbes

The Republican form of government is the highest form of government: but because of this it requires the highest type of human nature, a type nowhere at present existing.

Law is born from despair of human nature.