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civilization luxury selfishness
A semi-civilized state of society, equally removed from the extremes of barbarity and of refinement, seems to be that particular meridian under which all the reciprocities and gratuities of hospitality do most readily flourish and abound. For it so happens that the ease, the luxury, and the abundance of the highest state of civilization, are as productive of selfishness, as the difficulties, the privations, and the sterilities of he lowest. Charles Caleb Colton
civilization saws ends
I saw someone peeing in Jermym Street the other day. I thought, is this the end of civilization as we know it? Or is it simply someone peeing in Jermyn Street? Alan Bennett
civilization solitude going-out
Modern civilization is so complex as to make the devotional life all but impossible. It wears us out by multiplying distractions and beats us down by destroying our solitude, where otherwise we might drink and renew our strength before going out to face the world again. Aiden Wilson Tozer
civilization doubt moral
I have no doubt that historians will conclude that we of the twentieth century had intelligence enough to create a great civilization but not the moral wisdom to preserve it.
civilization stuff jingles
Freedom!- is the fatuous jingle of our civilization, but only those deprived of it have the barest inkling re: what the stuff actually is. David Mitchell
civilization creating alternatives
It's a difficult business, creating a new, alternative civilization. David Graeber
civilization climate-change humans
More than any other time in history, the 1990s will be a turning point for human civilization. David Suzuki
civilization age generations
Generations do not age. Every youth of any period, any civilization, has the same possibilities as always. Cesare Pavese
civilization savages fragility
They do not understand the fragility of civilization and the constant nearness of savage nature. Camille Paglia
barbarians mark
It was the mark of a barbarian to destroy something one could not understand. Arthur C. Clarke
barbarians conan ifs
If you go back to the Conan the Barbarian series, I really liked that. Andre Braugher
barbarians able blame
If the Barbarians are destroyed, who will we then be able to blame for the bad things? Angela Carter
barbarians core decided listened marxists problem saying slogans
We listened to the slogans of the barbarians - and this is the core of the problem - we decided that what the Marxists were saying had a point. Barbara Amiel
barbarians
A barbarian is not aware that he is a barbarian. Jack Vance
barbarians noble physical-strength
The noble caste was in the beginning always the barbarian caste: their superiority lay, not in their physical strength, but primarily in their psychical - they were more complete human beings... Friedrich Nietzsche
barbarians violence artistic
I was a barbarian, tender and full of violence. I translated by instinct, without any method, not merely an artistic truth but above all a human one. Maurice de Vlaminck
barbarians belong
These are outlaws, these are terrorists, barbarians who don't really belong to any identity, any nationality. Marwan Muasher
barbarians firsts england
Who the first inhabitants of Britain were, whether natives or immigrants, remains obscure; one must remember we are dealing with barbarians. Tacitus
human-nature abstinence appetite
Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature . Charles Dickens
human-nature lifeless permanent
The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless. Alan Watts
human-nature born unfortunate
Never literary attempt was more unfortunate than my Treatise of Human Nature. It fell dead-born from the press. David Hume
human-nature tendencies humans
Eell there always is a tendency in human nature to deify. Bill Maher
human-nature multitudes
What the multitude says, is so, or soon will be so. Baltasar Gracian
human-nature socialism economics
German Marxian's coined the dictum: If socialism is against human nature, then human nature must be changed. Ludwig von Mises
human-nature conventions should
It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it. Denis Diderot
human-nature social institutions
Our big social institutions do not reflect human nature; they distort it. Edward Abbey
human-nature humans human-beings
You cannot reshape human nature without mutilating human beings.