Quotes about civilization
civilization dachau foolish
The things I believed in dont exist any more. It's foolish to pretend that they do. Western Civilization finally went up in smoke in the chimneys at Dachau but I was too infatuated to see it. I see it now. Cormac McCarthy
civilization house way
If we built houses the way we build software, the first woodpecker to come along would destroy civilization. Clifford Stoll
civilization heard hundred likely otherwise quite radio several
I think it quite likely that we are the only civilization within several hundred light years; otherwise we would have heard radio waves. Stephen Hawking
civilization gasoline chemistry
I would have been dead if it weren't for that great gift to civilization from the Chemistry Department of Harvard, which was napalm, or sticky jellied gasoline. Kurt Vonnegut
civilization ideas might
Where do I get my ideas from? You might as well have asked that of Beethoven. He was goofing around in Germany like everybody else, and all of a sudden this stuff came gushing out of him. It was music. I was goofing around like everybody else in Indiana, and all of a sudden stuff came gushing out. It was disgust with civilization.
civilization perfect machines
The sole perfection which modern civilization attains is a mechanical one; machines are splendid and flawless, but the life which serves them or is served by them, is neither superb nor brilliant, nor more perfect nor more graceful; nor is the work of the machines perfect; only they, the machines, are like gods. Karel Capek