Quotes About Civilization

Slavery does away with fathers as it does away with families," he wrote. "The order of civilization is reversed here.

la de que las sociedades humanas podían disponerse según etapas de desarrollo, cada una con sus tecnologías y formas de organización características (cazadores-recolectores, agricultores, sociedad industrial urbana, etcétera).

The idea of civilization has always been linked to the desire for universal history; a history that transcends written records, extending back in time to the origins of our species, outwards in space to encompass the full range of contemporary human diversity, and—at least in its early formulations—onwards into some improved future condition.

Society is nothing more than people cooperating with other people they'd much rather murder.

It's the microscopic parasite that causes malaria. Nearly half of all human deaths in recorded history have been caused by this invisible assassin. One could make the argument that Plasmodium falciparum is the dominant life form on the planet, and that human civilization exists purely to give it a breeding ground.

Alcohol was the reason we formed complex civilizations, and having to deal with the complexities of civilization is the reason most of us need alcohol.

In a world that has done all it can to erase or obscure the civilizational memory of the West, remembering becomes a moral obligation, and a key to recovering our sanity.

Egypt," Stoker pointed out acidly, "is not filthy. It was once the cradle of civilization. I would suggest you read a book, but I am not entirely certain of your ability to do so.

In its broad sense, civilization means not only comfort in daily necessities but also the refining of knowledge and the cultivation of virtue so as to elevate human life to a higher plane.

...that human hunger birthed the Civ'lize, but human hunger killed it too.

One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person.

Republics, one after another . . . have perished from a want of intelligence and virtue in the masses of the people. . . .

I have no doubt that historians will conclude that we of the twentieth century had intelligence enough to create a great civilization but not the moral wisdom to preserve it.

If reason ruled the world would history even exist?

Sad but true: individual intelligence probably peaked in the Upper Paleolithic, and we have been self-domesticated creatures ever since

'Savage' describes a cultural condition, not a degree of intelligence.

Everything we have of value as human beings - as a civilization - is the result of our intelligence.

I'm a cosmopolitan sophisticate of culture and intelligence. The culmination of technology and civilized experience.

to be civilized is to be incapable of giving unnecessary offense, it is to have some quality of consideration for all who cross our path.

The real index of civilization is when people are kinder than they need to be.

One difference between savagery and civilization is a little courtesy. There's no telling what a lot of courtesy would do.

Kindness is not entered onto the great ledger of civilisation.

Somos las civilizadoras, no te cabe duda

la línea divisoria entre la barbarie y la civilización nunca es una frontera geográfica entre diferentes países, sino una frontera moral dentro de cada pueblo; es más, dentro de cada individuo».