Quotes About Civilization

The adoption of agriculture, supposedly our most decisive step toward a better life, was in many ways a catastrophe from which we have never recovered.

Design, vitalized and simplified, will make the comforts of civilized life available to an ever-increasing number of Americans.

Civilization and the life of nations are governed by the same laws as prevail throughout nature and organic life.

The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race.

In civilized life, law floats in a sea of ethics.

Since I personified the savage on the stage, I tried to be as civilized as possible in daily life.

I hope that someday we will find evidence that there is intelligent life among humans on this planet.

There's a hollowness to civilized life. It doesn't appeal to people, and some people react with extreme violence.

we came to realize that a civilization which rode roughshod over the way of life of other peoples was incorporating evil in its own way of life.

The discovery of agriculture was the first big step toward a civilized life.

Clothes are the only thing that separates us from animals," my mother said. "Clothes and a sense of shame.

More importantly, if you can't enjoy a glass of wine on a lovely sunny day then you have removed one of the tent poles of civilization from your life. You have become no better than a cow, or a rabbit.

Legal aid is fundamentally important in a democratic, civilised society.

The most important question facing humanity is this: Can we reach global empathy in time to avoid the collapse of civilization and save the Earth?

Okay, so what we really have to recognize and own as Americans is that our way of being is itself perhaps the greatest threat to the continuation of civilization.

That human nature and society can have conflicting demands, and hence that a whole society can be sick, is an assumption which was made very explicitly by Freud, most extensively in his Civilization and Its Discontent.

Die Entwicklung der patriarchalischen Gesellschaft geht Hand in Hand mit der Entwicklung des Privateigentums

Az ember biológiai gyengesége alkotja az emberi kultúra alapját.

It is a sad commentary on our civilization, however, that war and suffering rather than peacetime living can mobilize human readiness to make sacrifices, and that the times of peace seem mainly to encourage selfishness.

Night is nature's protest against the leprosy of civilization, Gottfried. No decent man can withstand it for long. He begins to notice that he has been turned out of the silent company of the trees, the animals, the stars, and unconscious life.

In himself man is essentially a beast, only he butters it over like a slice of bread with a little decorum.

Everything must have been fraudulent and pointless if thousands of years of civilization weren't even able to prevent this river of blood, couldn't stop these torture chambers existing in their hundreds of thousands. Only a military hospital can really show you what war is.

How pointless all human thoughts, words and deeds must be, if things like this are possible! Everything must have been fraudulent and pointless if thousands of years of civilization weren't even able to prevent this river of blood, couldn't stop these torture chambers existing in their hundreds of thousands. Only a military hospital can really show you what war is.

How pointless all human thoughts, words and deeds must be, if things like this are possible! Everything must have been fraudulent and pointless if thousands of years of civilization weren't even able to prevent this river of blood, couldn't stop these torture chambers existing in their hundreds of thousands