453 quotes found
“When men learnt to talk in the beginning of the civilised word they used language not as a means of communication alone but as a means of excluding others--using it as a way of setting themselves a...”
“Kindness is not entered onto the great ledger of civilisation.”
“Japhy was considered an eccentric around the campus, which is the usual thing for campuses and college people to think whenever a real man appears on the scene - colleges being nothing but grooming...”
“In Europe the rich are refined enough to act as if they're not wealthy. That is how civilized people behave. If you ask me, being cultured and civilized is not about everyone being free and equal; ...”
“The refusal to examine Islamic culture and traditions, the sordid dehumanization of Muslims, and the utter disregard for the intellectual traditions and culture of one of the worlds great civilizat...”
“Every civilisation has had its irrational but reassuring myth. Previous civilisations have used their culture to sing about it and tell stories about it. Ours has used its mathematics to prove it.”
“Certain portions of the earth, escaping utter destruction, become the seedbeds for replenishing the human race, and so it happens that on a world that is not young there are young populations havin...”
“Shaving was invented to kill time before a date.”
“Cities force growth and make men talkative and entertaining, but they make them artificial. Ralph Waldo Emerson”
“in order to do evil, must first believe that what they are doing is good, otherwise they can't do it.”
“Civilization is in fact the longest story of all. Civilization can persist through a series of economies.”
“The philosopher cannot seriously put to himself questions that his civilization has not lived.”
“I never learned to say shit before a lady. I don't believe in progress in quite the way you seem to. You believe in it more than Grandmother did. As for those purely cultural patterns of convention...”
“a single generation enamoured of foreign ways is almost enough in history to risk the whole continuity of civilization and learning.”
“Nations rise and fall, flourish and decay, by what they believe in and by what their culture stands for.”
“What civilization is, is 6 billion people trying to make themselves happy by standing on each other's shoulders and kicking each other's teeth in. It's not a pleasant situation.”
“Malibu: With sounds of waves crashing, and the ocean at the doorstep, you feel like you are hours away from civilization. And with L.A. traffic, YOU ARE.”
“Modern civilisation has based its specific foundation on the principle of liberty which states that man is not a mere instrument to be used by others but rather a main autonomous living being.”
“The anti-religious modernism which now threatens Islam and Muslims everywhere can be fully understood only by understanding the religion of the civilization in whose bosom modernism first developed...”
“The barbarians never take a city until someone holds the gates open to them. And it's your own multicultural authorities who will do it for you”
