Quotes About Civilization

For a brief review of our history to date shows us in a very singular role:that of serial killers.

The inventors of tools enhance civilization, but the author of ideas enables them to invent.

Black holes are the last vestige of civilizations obsessed with tinkering.

No society can legitimately call itself civilized if a sick person is denied medical aid because of lack of means.

People in their natural state are basically good. But this natural innocence,however, is corrupted by the evils of society.

Man is a moral being, only because he lives in society. Let all social life disappear and morality will disappear with it.

Our society distributes itself into Barbarians, Philistines and Populace; and America is just ourselves with the Barbarians quite left out, and the Populace nearly.

Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing.

There never has yet existed a wealthy and civilized society in which one portion of the community did not, in point of fact, live on the labor of the other.

Mohammed praises [instances of] tretchery, inhumanity, cruelty, revenge, and bigotry that are utterly incompatible with civilized society.

Society is produced by our wants and government by our wickedness.

The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.

Cherishing children is the mark of a civilized society.

Economic advance is not the same thing as human progress.

To inflict cruelties on defenceless creatures, or condone such acts, is to abuse one of the cardinal tenets of a civilized society - reverence for life.

Man is not made for society, but society is made for man. No institution can be good which does not tend to improve the individual.

Insanity is the only sane reaction to an insane society.

Society, you're a crazy breed.

If you don't have a moral question governing your society, then you don't have a society that is going to survive.

The abolition of the death penalty is making us a civilized society. It shows we actually do mean business when we say we have reverence for life.

It may seem impossible to imagine that a technologically advanced society could choose, in essence, to destroy itself, but that is what we are now in the processnof doing.

What did he mean by "society"? The plural of human beings?

The penetration of society by the Internet and the penetration of the Internet by society is the best thing that has ever happened to global human civilisation.

The sole precoccupation of this learned society was the destruction of humanity for philanthropic reasons and the perfection of weapons as instruments of civilization.