Quotes About Civilization

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Revenge is the naked idol of the worship of a semi-barbarous age.

We are all Greeks. Our laws, our literature, our religion, our arts have their root in Greece

Equality in possessions must be the last result of the utmost refinements of civilization; it is one of the conditions of that system of society towards which, with whatever hope of ultimate success, it is our duty to tend.

Civilization was a blessing you never truly appreciated until it threatened to collapse around you.

sic] his reaction was a sign of civilization. Nobody reaches for a gun anymore, just for his lawyer.

In any decent civilization, healthcare is a right, not a privilege.

Their electronics are still back in the Stone Age.

They would have thought me mad, even Kristabel. Flying carriages. People who live forever. Hundreds of inhabited worlds. Machine servants instead of genistars. Cities where Makkathran would be naught but a small district. A civilization where justice was available to all. Aliens. More stars in the sky than it is possible to count. No, such marvels of my fevered imagination were best kept inside my skull.

his reaction was a sign of civilization. Nobody reaches for a gun anymore, just for his lawyer.

Human civilization is always regulated, Del. It's how it maintains itself, the eternal balance between freedom and authority. We all live in the middle, obeying the rules for the common good.

Does my willingness to do my duty make the human race a bunch of dangerous killers?

The true hypocrite knows what he is doing, and does it to his own advantage. The unconscious hypocrite is simply man in civilization.

Too often, historians and archaeologists fabricate cheap mysteries, "Why did this great civilization suddenly collapse?," because they refuse to accept the obvious: that states are odious structures that their populations destroy whenever they get the opportunity, and sometimes even when they face impossible odds.

The veneer of civilization is thin, the rule of law is fragile, and the precondition of both is economic and political calm.

It was not the military prowess of the Germani that kept them outside the Empire, but their poverty.11

I think it is important for our society to wonder why it has lately become so ready to accept that human woe can be cured or soothed by chemicals. These chemicals do not alter or reform the ills of our civilisation. They adapt the human being to them.

horror stories in many ways touch us even more deeply. Because they remind us, that despite all our veneers of civilization and all our scientific progress, there are still things out there that defy the rational, and can scare the living daylights out of us.

Perhaps the simplest way of describing the situation would be to say that, two and a half thousand years ago in the West, we were given a gift — and in our childishness we threw away the instructions for how to use it. We felt we knew what we were playing with. And, as a result, western civilization may soon be nothing but an experiment that failed.

His kingdom began in Babylon, Erech, Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.

and Resen, which is between Nineveh and the great city of Calah.