453 quotes found
“You're obliged to pretend respect for people and institutions you find absurd. You live attached in a cowardly fashion to moral and social conventions you despise, condemn, and know lack all founda...”
“Let the war turn off the families. Our civilization is flinging itself to pieces. Stand back from the centrifuge.”
“The global industrial economy is the engine for massive environmental degradation and massive human (and nonhuman) impoverishment.”
“Poets write beautiful words to describe savagery-wrapped civilization nowadays.”
“A chair is the first thing you need when you dont really need anything, and is therefore a peculiarly compelling symbol of civilization. For it is civilization, not survival, that requires design.”
“If it is asserted that civilization is a real advance in the condition of man and I think that it is, though only the wise improve their advantages it must be shown that it has produced better dw...”
“Civilization depends on continually making the effort, of never giving in. It needs to be cared for by men of goodwill, protected from the dark.”
“Tea is one of the main stays of civilization in this country.”
“I hate paying taxes. But I love the civilization they give me”
“The only gain of civilisation for mankind is the greater capacity for variety of sensations - and absolutely nothing more.”
“It was unearthly, and the men were--No, they were not inhuman. Well, you know, that was the worst of it--this suspicion of their not being inhuman. It would come slowly to one. They howled, and lea...”
“These wonderful narrations inspired me with strange feelings. Was man, indeed, at once so powerful, so virtuous and magnificent, yet so vicious and base? He appeared at one time a mere scion of the...”
“What was invented with civilization was the ability of some to deny sensuality to others.”
“And all our yesterdays have lighted fools the way to dusty death.”
“It is their duty to be infantile, even against their inclination.”
“On why 300 years separates the first use of glass lenses in spectacles and their use in a telescope: In many cases there are times when an invention is technologically possible and in which it may...”
“There is no a revolution, without a man!”
“Thinking the simplest rights of Civilization to The Humanitarian !”
“Self as such was not normal ..will be like the Justice, which lost its wings !! Both are rivals for the same man ..”
“The fact that Man is Natures perverse instantiation can only lead to the appalling conclusion that Man, too, is some kind of an artificial intelligence”
