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“Unorganized morality is called sociability. Organized morality is called civilization. Unorganized immorality is called barbarity. Organized immorality is called statism.”
“...that human hunger birthed the Civ'lize, but human hunger killed it too.”
“The mark of the truly civilized is their (truly baffling to the likes of you and me) patience with what truly baffles.”
“I came to see that man finds meaning in his existence only through the active demonstration of his human self, a cosmos comprising the entire constellation of life's factors: culture, civilization,...”
“I believe that without strict enforcement of penalties for any offence violating the principles of truth and honesty, Nigeria and Africa will not be able to move from our present state of underdeve...”
“Occasionally I glanced at the big blue cradle of civilization hanging in the sky, remembered for the fiftieth or sixtieth or one hundredth time that none of this had any right to be happening, and ...”
“And what does it amount to?" said Satan, with his evil chuckle. "Nothing at all. You gain nothing; you always come out where you went in. For a million years the race has gone on monotonously propa...”
“The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization.”
“Then to give the kids a historical perspective, Chacko told them about the earth woman. He made them imagine that the earth - 4600 million years old - was a 46 year old woman- as old as Aleyamma te...”
“Super-eruption of mount Toba, 76,000 years ago had wiped out a previous great civilization on earth.”
“Civilization transformed man from a food gatherer to a gatherer of pieces of paper: diplomas, employment contracts, money, etc.”
“The first man, who, after enclosing a piece of ground, took it into his head to say, "This is mine," and found people simple enough to believe him, was the true founder of civil society. How many c...”
“There is something hugely civilised about allowing long pauses in a conversation. Very few people can stand that kind of silence.”
“Extreme civilization robs crime of its frightful poetry, and prevents the writer from restoring it. That would be too dreadful, say those good souls who want everything to be prettified, even the h...”
“She said: Sheriff how come you to let crime get so out of hand in your county? Sounded like a fair question I reckon. Maybe it was a fair question. Anyway I told her, I said: It starts when you beg...”
“Adoration is a sign of an infant civilization.”
“The smile is civilizations finest adornment. It signifies the willpower and duty to fashion mankinds coexistence as quietly and agreeably as possible so that it will always appear friendly. For it ...”
“And this also," said Marlow suddenly, "has been one of the dark places of the earth.”
“The people who build high, strong fences are the ones who survive the best. You deny that reality only at the risk of being driven into the wilderness yourself.”
“Civilization is the commercialization of survival.”
