31 quotes found
“To save our dying earth, any government which is not environmentalist must go because on earth there are thousands of governments but there in only one earth! Continuing with the eco-traitor stupid...”
“There is a great deal of ruin in a nation.”
“Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another.”
“But still. It has to end sometime. Wars always do. Everything has to end,' said Josephine, eating another ginger biscuit and getting unexpectedly philosophical. 'Yeah. Things like human civilisatio...”
“The Norweigian philosopher Tonnesen said that to think about anything but death is evasion. Society, art, culture, the whole of civilisation is nothing but evasion, one great collective self delusi...”
“I have a feeling that we've seen the dismantling of civilisation, brick by brick, and now we're looking into the void. We thought that we were liberating people from oppressive cultural circumstanc...”
“His themes were not pride and love at all, though he used the words perpetually; as he used them they meant self-praise and hate. He talked a great deal about Truth also, for he was, he said, cutti...”
“The twins were too young to know that these were only historys henchmen. Sent to square the books and collect the dues from those who broke its laws. Impelled by feelings that were primal yet parad...”
“It is no coincidence that, on all four sides, in all four corners, the borders of the Roman Empire stopped where wine could no longer be made.”
“The European talks of progress because by the aid of a few scientific discoveries he has established a society which has mistaken comfort for civilisation.”
“In its broad sense, civilization means not only comfort in daily necessities but also the refining of knowledge and the cultivation of virtue so as to elevate human life to a higher plane.”
“Civilization comes at a cost of manliness. It comes at a cost of wildness, of risk, of strife. It comes at a cost of strength, of courage, of mastery. It comes at a cost of honor. Increased civiliz...”
“When men evaluate each other as men, they still look for the same virtues that theyd need to keep the perimeter. Men respond to and admire the qualities that would make men useful and dependable in...”
“All we know about the new economic world tells us that nations which train engineers will prevail over those which train lawyers. No nation has ever sued its way to greatness. ”
“Nothing is more important than a great idea that influenced thedevelopment of civilization.”
“It has been said that civilization is the process of freeing human beings from each other, and that is true. But it takes people to free each other, because people cannot be freed from each other e...”
“We were the only humans - the only forms of life, in fact - for hundreds of miles in each direction, unreaching and unreachable as we rocketed back towards civilisation.”
“...if anyone who speaks up to criticise something obviously evil is punished merely for speaking, civilisation will be in a bad way.”
“Since the same human mire remains beneath, does not all civilisation reduce itself to the superiority of smelling nice and living well?”
“A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilisation”
