Quotes about civilization
civilization
Civilization is not and can never be sustainable. Derrick Jensen
civilization occupation culture
From the beginning, this culture - civilization - has been a culture of occupation.
civilization
Civilization can never be sustainable.
civilization mass-extinction matter
No matter what we call it, poison is still poison, death is still death, and industrial civilization is still causing the greatest mass extinction in the history of the planet.
civilization done hierarchy
Civilization is based on a clearly defined and widely accepted yet often unarticulated hierarchy. Violence done by those higher on the hierarchy to those lower is nearly always invisible, that is, unnoticed. When it is noticed, it is fully rationalized. Violence done by those lower on the hierarchy to those higher is unthinkable, and when it does occur is regarded with shock, horror, and the fetishization of the victims.
civilization poet lumps
Poets are the leaven in the lump of civilization. Elizabeth Janeway
civilization tolerance mind
Tolerance is held to be a condition of mind which is encouraged by, and is necessary for, civilization. Arthur Keith
civilization experts becoming
It is just because civilization is ever evolving, changing, and becoming more complicated, that experts find it so difficult to define it in explicit terms.
civilization world legs
Civilization is the world with its leg asleep.
civilization would-be good-times
Maybe we're about to radically change the operating system of the human condition. If so, then this would be a really good time to make backups of our civilization. Bruce Sterling
civilization agreement causes
What I question is the extent to which any of us truly knows what the facts really are. I mistrust every ideal cherished in western democratic civilization. The words that make others smile and nod in agreement cause me to recoil. Boyd Rice
civilization two care
I don't care two hoots about civilization. I want to wander in the wild. Jane Goodall
civilization light evil
...evil is a force and, like the physical and chemical forces, we cannot annihilate it; we may only change its form. We light upon one evil and hit it with all the might of our civilization, but only succeed in scattering it into a dozen of other forms James Weldon Johnson
civilization order liberty
Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos. Will Durant
civilization embraces thrives
The Filipino embraces civilization and lives and thrives in every clime, in contact with every people. Jose Rizal
civilization women
The test of civilization is its estimate of women. George William Curtis
civilization interesting salt
The salt of any interesting civilization is mixture. Antonio Tabucchi
civilization gorillas littles
Gorillas are almost altruistic in nature. There's very little if any 'me-itis.' When I get back to civilization I'm always appalled by 'me, me, me.' Dian Fossey
civilization cartoon fiction
They have an amazing proliferation of TV channels now: The all-cartoon channel, the 24-hour-science fiction channel. Of course, to make room for these they got rid of the Literacy Channel and the What's Left of Civilization Channel. Dennis Miller
civilization sabbath
I remind everybody that the Sabbath was the Jewish gift to civilization. Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
civilization galaxy highest
Arcturus is the highest civilization in our galaxy, Edgar Cayce
civilization numbers individuality
You know, our sense of individuality is just the number one target of civilization. Alan Rudolph
civilization roots leisure
At the root of our civilization, there is the freedom of each person of thought, of belief, of opinion, of work, of leisure. Charles de Gaulle
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
civilization differences people
I trust the time is nigh when, with the universal assent of civilized people, all international differences shall be determined without resort to arms by the benignant processes of civilization. Chester A. Arthur