Quotes about civil
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 growing strange
Human civilization has been no more than a strange luminescence growing more intense by the hour, of which no one can say when it will begin to wane and when it will fade away. W. G. Sebald
civilization
Everything our civilization has produced is entombed.
civilization greek conscious
Had Greek civilization never existed ... we would never have become fully conscious. W. H. Auden
civilization information viruses
The model of modern Western civilization is the virus: the pure bit of information, which turns its environment into endless reproductions of itself. Ursula K. Le Guin
civilization giving envy
The yearning after equality [in economic outcome] is the offspring of envy and covetousness, and there is no possible plan for satisfying that yearning which can do aught else than rob A to give to B; consequently all such plans nourish some of the meanest vices of human nature, waste capital, and overthrow civilization. William Graham Sumner
civilization missing trying
We created a thing called culture and civilization, and now we're about to lose it because we're trying to destroy everything. And I kind of miss it. I miss culture and civilization. Yoko Ono