Quotes about civil
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 intellectual tape
Philosophers get attention only when they appear to be doing something sinister--corrupting the youth, undermining the foundations of civilization, sneering at all we hold dear. The rest of the time everybody assumes that they are hard at work somewhere down in the sub-basement, keeping those foundations in good repair. Nobody much cares what brand of intellectual duct tape is being used. Richard Rorty
civilization world destruction
Money no longer has any meaning. Civilization is coming to an end. If not the destruction of the world, it's an endless stalemate. Stephen Fry
civilization people presidential
One of the tests of the civilization of people is the treatment of its criminals. Rutherford B. Hayes
civilization historical groups
Western civilization, because of fortuitous historical circumstances, has spread itself more widely than any other local group that has so far been known. Ruth Benedict
civilization society culture
Society in its full sense ... is never an entity separable from the individuals who compose it. No individual can arrive even at the threshold of his potentialities without a culture in which he participates. Conversely, no civilization has in it any element which in the last analysis is not the contribution of an individual.
civil-rights steps way
Slowly we have lifeted ourselves by our own bootstraps. Step by halting step, we have beat our way back Roy Wilkins
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 poetry decline
As civilization advances, poetry almost necessarily declines. Thomas B. Macaulay
civil-rights commerce left
The merchants will manage [commerce] the better, the more they are left free to manage for themselves. Thomas Jefferson
civil-rights equal enterprise
Private enterprise manages so much better all the concerns to which it is equal.
civilization skins revolution
Civilization is the lamb's skin in which barbarism masquerades. Thomas Bailey Aldrich
civilization cities world
Today every city, town, or village is affected by it. We have entered the Neon Civilization and become a plastic world.. It goes deeper than its visual manifestations, it affects moral matters; we are engaged, as astrophysicists would say, on a decaying orbit. Raymond Loewy
civilization effort shadow
The easily ridiculed, so-so status quo often hides Herculean efforts by those whom we take for granted, and who, working in the shadows, guarantee civilization instead of chaos. Victor Davis Hanson
civilization revolution
Revolution is the larva of civilization. Victor Hugo
civilization imagination quality
The quantity of civilization is measured by the quality of imagination.
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 people religion
Organized religion has too often followed the road of other people's institutions. It has made adjustments, compromises, and surrenders to a materialistic civilization for the benefit of material security in spite of occasional twinges of conscience and moral protests. The result has been that today much of organized religion is materialistically solvent but spiritually bankrupt. Saul Alinsky
civilization people empathy
The purpose of civilization and growth is to be able to reach out and empathize with other people... For me, the movies are like a machine that generates empathy. Roger Ebert
civilization issues important
A civilization in which there is not a continuous controversy about important issues is on the way to totalitarianism and death Robert M. Hutchins
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.