Quotes About Civilization

Culture is the name for what people are interested in, their thoughts, their models, the books they read and the speeches they hear, their table-talk, gossip, controversies, historical sense and scientific training, the values they appreciate, the quality of life they admire. All communities have a culture. It is the climate of their civilization.

En el contexto civilizado, la estrategia de sumisión trae más problemas que ventajas. El sumiso desconoce sus derechos personales y, por lo tanto, no los defiende ni los ejerce. Se acurruca, se entrega, se agacha, pero a diferencia de lo que ocurre en el mundo animal, aquí el opositor no perdona: "Al caído, caerle".

En realidad toda la moderna civilización industrializada está construida sobre la base del tiempo. La estructura psicológica humana vive en función de una supuesta "planeación estratégica" que no ha podido mostrar todavía balances psicológicos positivos.

Liberty--liberty within the law--and civilization are inseparable, and though both were threatened we find them now secure; and there comes to Americans the profound assurance that our representative government is the highest expression and surest guaranty of both.

Reason would say so, if what you say is true. But creatures may be intelligent and not reasonable. Our forefathers were presumably intelligent, yet they were certainly not reasonable. Was it reasonable to destroy almost all their tremendous civilization in atomic warfare over causes our historians can no longer accurately determine?

specialists without spirit, sensualists without heart; this nullity imagines that it has attained a level of civilization never before achieved.

You can best serve civilization by being against what usually passes for it.

History shows that our way of life is the stronger way. From it has come more wealth, more industry, more happiness, more human enlightenment than from any other way.

But how golden was the Gupta age even in its prime?

Civilization is like a thin layer of ice upon a deep ocean of chaos and darkness.

The old world was destroyed because of its own greed and secretiveness. Those least evolved rose to the top, as happens here. Your leaders, as you call them, are all people with damaged senses of self-worth. The damaged goods run the civilization. That's why it cannot last." "Abraham Lincoln was damaged goods?" "The need to lead is a symptom.

At issue in the Hiss Case was the question whether this sick society, which we call Western civilization, could in its extremity still cast up a man whose faith in it was so great that he would voluntarily abandon those things which men hold good, including life, to defend it.

In the desert I had found a freedom unattainable in civilization; a life unhampered by possessions, since everything that was not a necessity was an encumbrance. I had found too, a comradeship inherent in the circumstances, and the belief that tranquility was to be found there.

In the desert I had found a freedom unattainable in civilization; a life unhampered by possessions, since everything that was not a necessity was an encumbrance.

A knowledge of the forces that rule society, of the causes that have produced its upheavals, and of society's resources for promoting healthy progress has become of vital concern to our civilization.

It is said culture requires slaves. I say that no cultured society can be built with slaves. This terrible Twentieth Century has made all cultural theories from Plato down seem ridiculous. Little man, there has never been a human culture.

As painful and embarrassing as it may be, the fact remains that we are confronted with a human structure that has been shaped by thousands of years of mechanistic civilization and is expressed in social helplessness and an intense desire for a führer.

A hermit is simply a person to whom civilization has failed to adjust itself.

Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty, and dies with chaos.

Civilization is a stream with banks. The stream is sometimes filled with blood from people killing, stealing, shouting and doing the things historians usually record, while on the banks, unnoticed, people build homes, make love, raise children, sing songs, write poetry and even whittle statues. The story of civilization is the story of what happened on the banks. Historians are pessimists because they ignore the banks for the river.

Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.

A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself within

Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.

What I fail to understand is how a civilized world that claims to be so appalled by such brutality can simply turn its back on the victims.