Quotes About Civilization

They talked and talked and talked. Twenty-four biomes, ten thousand conversations. Talk talk talk. As they talked, it began to come clear to them that they had no very effective method of governance, when it came to making decisions as a group. Had humans ever had such a thing, they asked themselves, since leaving the savannah? Since congregating in cities? They could not be sure. The histories suggested maybe not.

History is humankind trying to get a grip. Obviously not easy. But it could go better if you would pay a little more attention to certain details, like for instance your planet.

There is just enough time to complete the preparation of a lander," we concluded after summarizing the situation, and the notable incidents of the past dozen years, which we had to confess were nearly nil: we entered the solar system, we hit our marks, people yelled at us, we learned some history, we became disenchanted with civilization, we ran out of fuel.

But no matter their metaphysical details, each civilization was part of a world transferring wealth back and forth, back and forth, eventually to the elite groups; these movements of wealth became the driving force of change in human affairs—in other words, of history. Gathered wealth gathered more wealth.

History is humankind trying to get a grip. Obviously its not easy. But it could go better if you would pay a little more attention to certain details, like for instance your planet.

They would understand the fundamental laws of the universe before they had even the slightest handle on society.

What's the monetary value of human civilization? Trying to answer that question proves you are a moral and practical idiot. Well, economists make such calculations all the time, but that's their job, and they think it makes sense.

No amount of culture or civilization can subdue or hide the wanton violence in man.

El deseo de tener algún animal suele brotar siempre de un mismo y viejísimo motivo: el que impulsó también a Kipling a escribir sus libros de la jungla. Nace de una pasión del hombre civilizado, que añora el paraíso perdido de la Naturaleza salvaje.

The world is chaos, punctuated by brief outbreaks of civilization.

In the civilized countries I believe there are no witches left, nor wizards, nor sorceresses, nor magicians ~ The Witch of the North

But to become civilized means to dress as elaborately and prettily as possible, and to make a show of your clothes so your neighbors will envy you, and for that reason both civilized foxes and civilized humans spend most of their time dressing themselves.

In the civilized countries I believe there are no witches left, nor wizards, nor sorceresses, nor magicians. But, you see, the Land of Oz has never been civilized, for we are cut off from all the rest of the world. Therefore we still have witches and wizards amongst us. Who

But to become civilized means to dress as elaborately and prettily as possible, and to make a show of your clothes so your neighbors will envy you, and for that reason both civilized foxes and civilized humans spend most of their time dressing themselves. I don't, declared the shaggy man. That is true, said the King, looking at him carefully; but perhaps you are not civilized.

I do not know where Kansas is, for I have never heard that country mentioned before. But tell me, is it a civilized country? Oh, yes, replied Dorothy. Then that accounts for it. In the civilized countries I believe there are no witches left, nor wizards, nor sorceresses, nor magicians. But, you see, the Land of Oz has never been civilized, for we are cut off from all the rest of the world. Therefore we still have witches and wizards amongst us.

do not know where Kansas is, for I have never heard that country mentioned before. But tell me, is it a civilized country?

I do not know where Kansas is, for I have never heard that country mentioned before. But tell me, is it a civilized country?

Anything that we scientists can do to weaken the hold of religion, should be done and may, in fact, in the end, be our greatest contribution to civilization.

The careful student of history will discover that Christianity has been of very little value in advancing civilization, but has done a great deal toward retarding it.

120 million of us place the big bang 2,500 years after the Babylonians and Sumerians learned to brew beer.

Civilisation has ever accompanied emigration and conquest - the conflict of opinion, of religion, or of race

The United States, knowing no distinction of her own citizens on account of religion or nationality, naturally believes in a civilization the world over which will secure the same universal laws.

To regret religion is to regret Western civilization.

The soul of a civilization is its religion, and it dies with its faith.