Quotes About Civilization

Y es que, como ya apuntó hace años Arthur C. Clarke, autor de 2001: una odisea del espacio, un pueblo poco desarrollado no podrá distinguir nunca cualquier tecnología superior de la magia. Qué gran verdad.

I want nothing to do with any religion concerned with keeping the masses satisfied to live in hunger, filth, and ignorance. I want nothing to do with any order, religious or otherwise, which does not teach people that they are capable of becoming happier and more civilized, on this earth, capable of becoming true man, master of his fate and captain of his soul.

But not for Jefferson. "I view cities as pestilent to the morals, the health, and the liberation of man

The study of history is the beginning of political wisdom.

You have to look at history as an evolution of society.

Clearly, a civilization that feels guilty for everything it is and does will lack the energy and conviction to defend itself.

In the savage horde the most vagabond, as well as in the most civilized nations of Europe, man is only what he is made to be by external circumstances; he is necessarily elevated by his equals; he contracts from them his habits and his wants; his ideas are no longer his own; he enjoys, from the enviable prerogative of his species, a capacity of developing his understanding bu the power of initiation, and the influence of society.

What was there in the world more Western than Mozart, more civilized, more perfect? No eight hundred thousand voices could drone their chant to Mozart's notes. Mozart had never written to stir the masses, but to touch the heart of each single human being, in his private self.

Almost as if—as if he regretted that they were civilised. As if he knew that they had to be, but wished it wasn't necessary. Or that there was some other way.

Il y a toujours chez les hommes de guerre quelque chose de direct qu'ils tiennent peut-être de leur habitude de donner la mort. Il faut, pour frapper quelqu'un, même au combat, se libérer d'un poids de civilisation qui enferme la plupart d'entre nous dans la fausseté et une douceur forcée.

The first man who, having fenced in a piece of land, said, "This is mine," and found people naïve enough to believe him, that man was the true founder of civil society.

Cities are the abyss of the human species.

we now live in a society

avec ses lourdes pertes humaines, est de toutes les civilisations et de tous les temps. Les religions elles-mêmes sont souvent à l'origine de ces tueries que pourtant elles dénoncent, comme il en fut jadis au temps des croisades et des guerres de Religion, voire, aujourd'hui, de l'islamisme extrême. C'est qu'entre-temps les hommes, poussés par l'immémorial instinct de pouvoir, se sont approprié le fait religieux et en ont fait leur affaire. Au

chapitre xvii Que disent les philosophes Dans toutes les civilisations, philosophes et penseurs se sont donné pour objectif de reléguer ou de contenir l'agressivité et d'en prémunir autant que possible les sociétés humaines. Tout au moins jusqu'à l'époque contemporaine.

L'ultime réponse à la violence et à l'agressivité serait donc un vrai projet de civilisation, lequel n'en est encore qu'à ses débuts mais qui devrait – qui devra ! – devenir, à travers l'éducation et la télévision, la priorité des priorités ! Un processus

That's the difference between you and them, between any person of integrity and any criminal. You wanted to do harm, but you didn't. The restraints held. That's what civilization is... That's what morality is. Maybe we can't always keep our emotions in check, but so long as we control our actions, we'll stay on the right side of the line.

Histoire de l'Empire Mongol

My love for cinema began with the talkies, around 1929 or '30. The first time I heard a word coming from a screen was White Shadows in the South Seas by Van Dyke and Flaherty, when Monte Blue suddenly said, "Civilization, civilization." It was the first time I'd heard talking cinema. At that moment I fell madly in love.

For society, marriage is undoubtedly beneficial. But the burdens of civilized morality are too heavy for many to bear.

Surrounded by enemies, there were officially no enemies for them. With civilization at large trickling down shitholes like Mogadishu and Kigali and Port-au-Prince, the "new" Army was under strict orders: Thou shalt have no enemy. No casualties. No turf. You occupied high ground only long enough to let the politicos rattle sabers and get reelected, and then you moved on to the next bad place. The landscape changed; the hatreds did not.

What a remarkable conceit civilization is

Homeland security still exists?" "Not by that name. Just their drones. Do you know how many secret drones lacerate the sky these days? They'll outlast us all. Form their own civilization.

Topological anomaly? Topological anomaly? Don't you mean witchcraft ? Don't you mean the end of civilisation? Don't you mean some kind of spooky thing that we know nothing, absolutely fucking nothing about, to go with everything else we don't know?