Quotes About Civilization

Nature makes only dumb animals. We owe the fools to society.

De ce accept?m s? coabit?m cu mîrlanii, cu guja?ii, cu escrocii, cu nesim?i?ii? De ce?!!! Democra?ie f?r? discriminare moral? e populism, adic? contrariul spiritului civil. (...) Canaliile, pro?tii, ignarii, scandalagii, inep?ii au devenit deodat?, cu to?ii, din vina noastr?, a civiliza?iilor, frecventabili. E aberant, e complet gre?it. Cu derbedeii nu te înso?e?ti, darmite s? te înh?itezi.

Pericles' Golden Age produced the flowering which would lead to Athens' place in history and would crest in the marble-columned buildings and literary works which cornerstone the civilization of the West.

Our easy bones groaned, our flesh baked on one side and shuddered on the other; and each man thought bitterly about primitive simplicity and decadence, and how he had been ruined by civilization and forced by circumstances to drink and smoke and sit up all night inspecting those perfectly arbitrary cards until he was broken-winded as a trout on a rock and had no use for the doctrines of Jean Jacques Rousseau, and could no longer afford a savagery whether noble or not;

This is a matter of tremendous significance, for it reveals to what extent a religion that was born of a people acquainted with persecution and suffering has become the cornerstone of a civilization and of nations whose very position in modern life has too often been secured by a ruthless use of power applied to weak and defenseless peoples.

The major civilizing force in the world is not religion, it is sex.

It wouldn't be strange that there had been civilization on Mars, but once capitalism got there it would finish the planet

wouldnt be strange that there had been civilization on Mars, but once capitalism got there it would finish the planet.

It is commonly said and known that each civilization has its own religion. Now my claim is that if we look deeper, the different civilizations were brought into being by the different revelations.

An Outside Context Problem was the sort of thing most civilisations encountered just once, and which they tended to encounter rather in the same way a sentence encountered a full stop.

When all this is over, people will try to blame the Germans alone, and the Germans will try to blame the Nazis alone, and the Nazis will try to blame Hitler alone. They will make him bear the sins of the world. But it's not true. You suspected what was happening, and so did I. It was already too late over a year ago. I caused a reporter to lose his job because you told me to. He was deported. The day I did that I made my little contribution to civilization, the only one that matters.

The point of civilization is to be civilized; the purpose of action is to perpetuate society, for only in society can philosophy truly take place.

Politics bores you?" Bronsen said. Julien smiled. "It does. Apologies, sir, and it is not that I haven't tried to be fascinated. But careful and meticulous research has suggested the hypothesis that all politicians are liars, fools, and tricksters, and I have as yet come across no evidence to the contrary. They can do great damage, and rarely any good. It is the job of the sensible man to try and protect civilization from their depradations.

And here was the moment. The end of it all, for civilization was merely another name for friendship, and friendship was coming to an end.

We are coming to a fork in the road in human history, where the system of global capitalism is forcing an end to the Holocene Epoch of the last 12,000 years, the geological period within which human civilisation has developed, where we have to decide between 'capitalism or the planet'. —DEL WESTON1

Theirs is a life measured by the richness of these relationships, rather than by accumulated possessions: they treasure life lived for the moment. The Rom have maintained this way of life not in some isolated spot, but superimposed upon a widespread sedentary civilization over hundreds of years.

You say that this society will come to an end, because societies always have done so. I wonder whether they have ended because they were not really societies at all.

People in this civilization are starving in the middle of plenty. This is a civilization that is going down, not because it hasn't got the knowledge that would save it, but because nobody will use the knowledge.

Brotherhood" to the more civilised is connected with training and identity of interest.' Man

On a group of theories one can found a school; but on a group of values one can found a culture, a civilization, a new way of living together among men.

Our world desperately needs change. We all know this. The scope of the change ranges from our lifestyles to the direction of our civilization. When we acknowledge our greatness and start living it, when we open our hearts to the natural kindness and the caring for all beings that resides within us, all these necessary transformations can begin.

We evolved haphazardly within a random universe; no purpose underpins us, no God watches over us, and no assured glorious future awaits us. We are saddled with a dualistic consciousness that weighs us down and plays tricks on us. We have built and seem unable to dismantle a dehumanizing and destructive civilization and mindset that perpetuates deceit and greed. We can make ourselves as comfortable as possible, as doctors tell their terminally ill patients, but we are sadly incurable.

This is one of the most urgent problems for civilized man. He has created civilization to give him security. Security for what? For boredom? His chief problem seems to be that most human beings need a certain amount of challenge, of external stimulus, to stop them from sinking into the blank stare and blank consciousness of the idiot.

Spanish physicist Beatriz Gato-Rivera has questioned whether we could be immersed in a larger civilization without being aware of it. She notes that "typical civilizations of typical galaxies" would likely be hundreds of thousands, or even millions of years more evolved than our own.