Civilization Quotes
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Whatever fosters militarism makes for barbarism; whatever fosters peace makes for civilization.
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Everything our civilization has produced is entombed.
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Civilisation is hooped together, brought Under a rule, under the semblance of peace By manifold illusion.
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... I cannot think a civilization worth having that does not encourage and enable its subjects to spend something, not extorted by governments but freely given to keep wretchedness at least from the streets they walk through day by day.
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A useful analogy is to see traditional societies as relying on instantaneous (or minimally delayed) and constantly replenished solar income, while modern civilization is withdrawing accumulated solar capital at rates that will exhaust it in a tiny fraction of the time that was needed to create it.
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First in point of time and interest comes the mortgage debt, i.e. the claim for the return of money lent on the security of some tangible object. Such claims are among the earliest fruits of a commercial civilization, and are nearly always affected the same way, viz. by the deposit or pledge of the security with the creditor, to be redeemed or returned on the payment of the debt.
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Practical dreamers have always been and always will be the pattern-makers of civilization.
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A civilization which leaves so large a number of its participants unsatisfied and drives them into revolt neither has nor deserves the prospect of a lasting existence.
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Today, human civilization is drowning in a sea of lies.
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I know something about the civilization of China, with my background, obviously, and I think I know something about American history. But that's about all. And I've traveled all over the world, and for a long time I didn't know very much about it, really.
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The point of civilization is to be civilized; the purpose of action is to perpetuate society, for only in society can philosophy truly take place.
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War creates no absolutely new situation: it simply aggravates the permanent human situation so that we can no longer ignore it. Human life has always been lived on the edge of a precipice.
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Civilization has made man, if not always more bloodthirsty, at least more viciously, more horribly bloodthirsty.
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One must not judge everyone in the world by his qualities as a soldier: otherwise we should have no civilization.
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Who are we to say what's right for civilizations that were already thousands of years old when our own nation came into being?
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Civilization is only a series of victories against nature.
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Civilization does everything for the mind and favors it entirely at the expense of the body.
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Civilization merely develops man's capacity for a greater variety of sensations, and ... absolutely nothing else.
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The curse of poverty has no justification in our age. It is socially as cruel and blind as the practice of cannibalism at the dawn of civilization, when men ate each other because they had not yet learned to take food from the soil or to consume the abundant animal life around them. The time has come for us to civilize ourselves by the total, direct and immediate abolition of poverty.
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If youth were not ignorant and timid, civilization would be impossible.
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One... gets an impression that civilization is something which was imposed on a resisting majority by a minority which understood how to obtain possession of the means to power and coercion. It is, of course, natural to assume that these difficulties are not inherent in the nature of civilization itself but are determined by the imperfections of the cultural forms which have so far been developed.
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Martin Luther King said it was time to inject a new dimension of love into the veins of human civilization. I don't think anyone is calling Martin Luther King a New Age woo-woo.
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The photograph [of Che Guevara], for a civilization now accustomed to thinking in images, was not the description of a single event... it was an argument.
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There is no salvation for civilization, or even the human race, other than the creation of a world government.
