Quotes about civilization
civilization use barbarians
Despite our complicated civilization, so called, or perhaps on account of it, we are all of us a mere set of barbarians, who find it less trouble to provide a new, cheap, and shoddy thing than to get the full use and full pleasure out of a finely-made and carefully-chosen old one. Vernon Lee
civilization challenges world
We live in a world of crisis, of challenge, and ... it's in our galleries that we can unpack the civilizations that we're seeing the current manifestations of. Thomas P. Campbell
civilization two way
Civilization, or that which is so called, has operated two ways to make one part of society more affluent and the other part more wretched than would have been the lot of either in a natural state. Thomas Paine
civilization silence speech
Speech is civilization itself. The word, even the most contradictions word, preserves contact - it is silence which isolates. Thomas E. Mann
civilization judgmental assignments
Our assignment was to topple this prudish, judgmental civilization. And it worked. Timothy Leary
civilization society unbearable
Civilization is unbearable, but it is less unbearable at the top.
civilization enormous devices
Civilization is an enormous device for economizing knowledge,. Thomas Sowell
civilization light society
The demands of unbounded individualism need to be weighed in the light of inherent social constraints which can only change their form but cannot be eliminated without eliminating civilization.
civilization vision arbitrary
If the truth is boring, civilization is irksome. The constraints inherent in civilized living are frustrating in innumerable ways. Yet those with the vision of the anointed often see these constraints as only arbitrary impositions, things from which they-and we all-can be 'liberated.' The social disintegration which has followed in the wake of such liberation has seldom provoked any serious reconsideration of the whole set of assumptions-the vision-which led to such disasters. That vision is too well insulated from feedback.
civilization play santa
Someone once said that taxes are the price we pay for civilization. That may have been true when he said it, but today taxes are mostly the price we pay so that politicians can play Santa Claus and get reelected.
civilization people pay
Some people say that taxes are the price we pay for civilization. But the runaway taxes of our time are the price we pay for being gullible.
civilization generations too-late
Each new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little barbarians, who must be civilized before it is too late.
civilization too-much gentility
There is such a thing as too much couth. S. J. Perelman
civilization liberty built
Liberty built civilization. It can rebuild civilization. Ron Paul
civilization special use
Writers sometimes talk as though they were the only friends of civilization. This is their conceit. But they have special powers to serve -- or to corrupt -- civilization, and are obliged to use them. Storm Jameson
civilization environmental attention
Civilization’s shortening attention span is mismatched with the pace of environmental problems. Stewart Brand
civilization liberty progress
Liberty is the condition of progress. Without Liberty, there remains only barbarism. Without Liberty, there can be no civilization. Robert Green Ingersoll
civilization history tests
A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization. Samuel Johnson
civilization decline fragmentation
Fragmentation occurs when a civilization is in decline. Robert Payne
civilization mind example
It is the habitual carriage of the umbrella that is the stamp of Respectability. Robinson Crusoe was rather a moralist than a pietist, and his leaf-umbrella is as fine an example of the civilised mind striving to express itself under adverse circumstances as we have ever met with. Robert Louis Stevenson
civilization modern umbrella
It is not for nothing, either, that the umbrella has become the very foremost badge of modern civilization--the Urim and Thummim of respectability. . . . So strongly do we feel on this point, indeed, that we are almost inclined to consider all who possess really well-conditioned umbrellas as worthy of the Franchise.
civilization evil natural
Civilization is a natural and inevitable consequence - whether good or evil I am not prepared to state. Robert E. Howard
civilization mazes customs
Civilization is a network and a maze of precedences and custom.
civilization skins red
Break the skin of civilization and you find the ape, roaring and red-handed.
civilization triumph natural
Barbarianism is the natural state of mankind. Civilization is unnatural. It is the whim of circumstance. And barbarianism must ultimately triumph
civilization alaska airports
We are the first atheistic and global, all-embracing civilization. You cannot tell whether you are sitting at an airport in Hong Kong or in a hotel in Alaska. Everything is instrumentalized, subjected to a short-term purpose. It is quite possible that in such a situation any sense of a deeper meaning gets lost. Vaclav Havel
civilization people democracy
It would appear that the traditional parliamentary democracies can offer no fundamental opposition to that automatism of technological civilization and the industrial-consumer society, for they too are being dragged helplessly along by it. People are manipulated in ways that are infinitely more subtle and refined than the brutal methods used in post-totalitarian societies.
civilization speech
Speech is civilization itself. Thomas Mann
civilization world poison
A civilization can easily drown in what it knows as in what doesn't know. Consider,' he continued, Gotho's Folly. Gotho's curse was in being too aware - of everything. Every permutation, every potential. Enough to poison every scan he cast on the world. It availed him naught, and worse, he was aware of even that. Steven Erikson
civilization light messages
If a superior alien civilization sent us a message saying, 'We'll arrive in a few decades', would we just reply, 'OK, call us when you get here – we'll leave the lights on'? Probably not – but this is more or less what is happening with AI, Stephen Hawking
civilization aggression impediments
The inclination to aggression constitutes the greatest impediment to civilization. Sigmund Freud
civilization individuality liberty
The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization.
civilization guilt different
The different religions have never overlooked the part played by the sense of guilt in civilization. What is more, they come forward with a claim...to save mankind from this sense of guilt, which they call sin.