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“There's no such thing as civilization. The word just means the art of living in cities.”
“This topic brings me to that worst outcrop of herd life, the military system, which I abhor... This plague-spot of civilization ought to be abolished with all possible speed. Heroism on command, se...”
“The triumph of persuasion over force is the sign of a civilized society.”
“The Civilized murder their children by producing too many of them without being able to provide for their well-being. Morality or theories of false virtue stimulate them to manufacture cannon fodde...”
“The fiendlike skill we display in the invention of all manner of death-dealing engines, the vindictiveness with which we carry on our wars, and the misery and desolation that follow in their train,...”
“Indeed, a parallel history of Europe could be written which viewed family life and regular work as the essential Continental motor of civilization. Then war and revolution would need to be seen by ...”
“You are wrong, says the man. His voice is low and resonant. The metal walls of the dome, all the knives and swords and spears, all seem to vibrate with each of his words. Your rulers and their prop...”
“We seldom realize, for example that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given to u...”
“Arise, my friend the world is wailing for kindness it is wailing for compassion it is wailing for love.”
“The more we humanize the society, the more we will become humans.”
“What is the point of being humans, if our actions scream with more bestiality than humanity!”
“Humanity is not a word my friend. It is a symbol a symbol of hope a symbol of wisdom yet this very symbol has become disgraced by our faults and deluded justification of mistakes.”
“Civilization has been a continuous struggle of the individual or of groups of individuals against the State and even against "society," that is, against the majority subdued and hypnotized by the S...”
“I know that [civilized men] do nothing but boast incessantly of the peace and repose they enjoy in their chains.... But when I see [barbarous man] sacrifice pleasures, repose, wealth, power, and li...”
“Hard to believe that so nearby, just across the Channel, such atrocities could still occur in their supposedly civilized world, that one could wake up one morning and find oneself bereft of brother...”
“The family is the nucleus of civilization.”
“Family life was and always will be the foundation of any civilization. Destroy the family and you destroy the country.”
“Civilization must be preserved,' says he.'Civilization's doing fine,' I said. 'We just don't happen to be where it is.”
“It is as if the soul of the continent is weeping. Why does it weep? It weeps for the bones of the buffalo. It weeps for magic that has been forgotten. It weeps for the decline of poets.It weepsfor ...”
“If kissing is man's greatest invention, then fermentation and patriarchy compete with the domestication of animals for the distinction of being man's worst folly, and no doubt the three combined lo...”
