Quotes About Civilization

A wise thief, whether as a state, or figure picks and steals precious and valuable things, to execute civilization in its scope where that exists and enjoys, ignoring the truth.

Afghanistan and such targeted countries are a context of the USA's awkward policies, legal hegemony, and legitimate victimization and destruction of other nations for its interests, in the mirror of so-called civilization and global peace.

Civilisation displays and endorses the conception of love, harmony, justice, and equal rights for everyone regardless of the discrimination; conversely, one feels that the West indeed becomes civilised; however, one seems not to believe that the West behaves the same with others. Civilisation is still to achieve and apply as its real conception.

Civilization is not a planet or land and its resources. It is just your brain how works that, constructive or destructive.

We make the evil monsters, spending billions of money, to get nothing and then remain engaged, to destroy them plundering the resources, double of that. We still claim ourselves to be wise and civilized characters.

The times are rushing ahead. This has already caused damage, and there is still more destruction to come. One day, human civilization... will be a thing of the past.

This will never be a civilized country until we spend more money for books than we do for chewing gum.

This will never be a civilized country until we expend more money for books than we do for chewing gum.

There is no doubt: the study of man is just beginning, at the same time that his end is in sight.

Nothing distresses the civilized person like unfettered nature. The Grand Canyon seen from behind the railing is indeed a splendid sight, but as soon as the desert reclaims your golf course that is another matter altogether.

human nature" had, of course, been going on for some time. The earliest examples of "natural men" had been the American Indians. It had been they who had provided Montaigne with much of the material he had used to cast doubt on the civility and humanity of his Christian contemporaries, both Catholic and Protestant, and to suggest that, after all, "barbarian" might be nothing more than a word we use to describe what is unfamiliar to us.

The abandonment of civilized values exposes us collectively to possession by the worst elements of the Shadow.

the more secular, materialistic, and compulsively extraverted our civilization became, the greater the unhappiness, 'senselessness and aimlessness' of our lives.

A civilization is a heritage of beliefs, customs, and knowledge slowly accumulated in the course of centuries, elements difficult at times to justify by logic, but justifying themselves as paths when they lead somewhere, since they open up for man his inner distance.

Those Hut Point days, would prove some of the happiest of my life. Just enough to eat and keep warm, no more - no frills or trimmings: there is many a worse and more elaborate life...the luxuries of civilisation satisfy only those wants which they themselves create.

the luxuries of civilization satisfy only those wants which they themselves create.

Education is the transmission of civilization.

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

The influence of geographic factors diminishes as technology grows. The character and contour of a terrain may offer opportunities for agriculture, mining, or trade, but only the imagination and initiative of leaders, and the hardy industry of followers, can transform the possibilities into fact...Man, not the earth, makes civilization.

Man, not earth, makes civilization.

Man, when perfected, is the best of animals, but when separated from law and justice, he is the worst of all.

If women are by barbarians reduced to the level of slaves, it is because barbarians themselves have never yet risen to the rank of men.

Perfected by the offices and duties of social life, man is the best, but, rude and undisciplined, he is the very worst of animals.

Man perfected by society is the best of all animals; he is the most terrible of all when he lives without law, and without justice.