civilization quotes by BRIAN ALDISS-1471759856
Civilization is the distance man has placed between himself and his excreta.
civilization quotes by ALFRED TENNYSON-1471755718
I stood on a tower in the wet,And New Year and Old Year met,And winds were roaring and blowing:And I said, "O years, that meet in tears,Have ye aught that is worth the knowing?Science enough and e
civilization quotes by STANLEY GARN-1471712797
If the Aborigine drafted an I.Q. test, all of Western civilization would presumably flunk it.
civilization quotes by THOR HEYERDAHL-1471710593
Progress is man's ability to complicate simplicity.
civilization quotes by BENNETT CERF-1471709393
Good manners: The noise you don't make when you're eating soup.
civilization quotes by JAMES RAMSEY ULLMAN-1471707943
We are so clothed in rationalization and dissemblance that we can recognize but dimly the deep primal impulses that motivate us.
civilization quotes by ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD-1471706269
It must be admitted that there is a degree of instability which is inconsistent with civilization. But, on the whole, the great ages have been unstable ages.
civilization quotes by ARNOLD TOYNBEE-1471704488
Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor.
civilization quotes by RICHARD BACH-1471701166
Civilization... wrecks the planet from seafloor to stratosphere.
civilization quotes by CAROL MATTHAU-1471692539
The dying process begins the minute we are born, but it accelerates during dinner parties.
civilization quotes by SIGMUND FREUD-1471679037
It is impossible to overlook the extent to which civilization is built upon a renunciation of instinct.
civilization quotes by ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL-1471677566
Our concern is not how to worship in the catacombs but how to remain human in the skyscrapers.
civilization quotes by ALAN JAY LERNER-1471675307
They civilize what's prettyBy puttin' up a cityWhere nothin' that'sPretty can grow....They civilize leftThey civilize rightTill nothing is leftTill nothing is right
civilization quotes by H.G. WELLS-1471660645
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
civilization quotes by DANIEL WEBSTER-1471626575
When tillage begins, other arts follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of human civilization.
civilization quotes by EDGAR SALTUS-1471625015
[T]he progress of civilization corresponds with the spread of general nausea.
civilization quotes by B.F.SKINNER-1471619478
Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless.
civilization quotes by JOHN MUIR-1471590621
The gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature, and poetry, and all that is spiritual.
civilization quotes by AUTHOR UNKNOWN-1471589097
Society is a made-up formula of what we are supposed to be, kept alive by those who believe in it.... I laugh in the ugly face of society, with all its fabricated dimensions.
civilization quotes by MARK TWAIN-1471587323
There are many humorous things in the world, among them the white man's notion that he is less savage than the other savages.
civilization quotes by SIGMUND FREUD-1471585776
One... gets an impression that civilization is something which was imposed on a resisting majority by a minority which understood how to obtain possession of the means to power and coercion. It is, of course, natural to assume that these difficulties are not inherent in the nature of civilization itself but are determined by the imperfections of the cultural forms which have so far been developed.
civilization quotes by MARTIN H. FISCHER-1471580418
A living civilization creates; a dying, builds museums.
civilization quotes by HENRY HAVELOCK ELLIS-1471530838
What we call progress is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance.
civilization quotes by AUTHOR UNKNOWN-1471504761
[M]odern man is just ancient man... with way better electronics.
civilization quotes by EDMOND AND JULES DE GONCOURT-1471503481
People don't like the true and simple; they like fairy tales and humbug.
civilization quotes by BARBARA KINGSOLVER-1471501986
Codi: "Gives you the willies, doesn't it? The thought of raising kids in a place where the front yard ends in a two-hundred-foot drop?Loyd: "No worse than raising up kids where the front yard ends in a freeway."
civilization quotes by ALDOUS HUXLEY-1471500626
Every civilization is, among other things, an arrangement for domesticating the passions and setting them to do useful work.
civilization quotes by RICHARD P. FEYNMAN-1471499266
We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there are tens of thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on.
civilization quotes by EDMOND AND JULES DE GONCOURT-1471450848
Barbarism is needed every four or five hundred years to bring the world back to life. Otherwise it would die of civilization.
civilization quotes by THOMAS CARLYLE-1471444608
Is man's civilization only a wrappage, through which the savage nature of him can still burst, infernal as ever?
civilization quotes by HARLAN ELLISON-1471443220
K is for "Kenghis Khan." He was a very nice person. History has no record of him. There is a moral in that, somewhere.
civilization quotes by LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD-1471441874
When you can't do something truly useful, you tend to vent the pent up energy in something useless but available, like snappy dressing.
civilization quotes by ALBERT EINSTEIN-1471440536
We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.
civilization quotes by T.S. ELIOT-1471439098
And the wind shall say "Here were decent godless people;Their only monument the asphalt roadAnd a thousand lost golf balls."
civilization quotes by STEPHEN JAY GOULD-1471364960
We pass through this world but once. Few tragedies can be more extensive than the stunting of life, few injustices deeper than the denial of an opportunity to strive or even to hope, by a limit imposed from without, but falsely identified as lying within.
civilization quotes by HENRY DAVID THOREAU-1471363669
We should distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
civilization quotes by BERTRAND RUSSELL-1471360315
I've made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I'm convinced of the opposite.
civilization quotes by AUTHOR UNKNOWN-1471355381
Man - despite his artistic pretensions, his sophistication, and his many accomplishments - owes his existence to a six inch layer of topsoil and the fact that it rains.
civilization quotes by CONFUCIUS-1471353195
Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.
civilization quotes by C.P. SNOW-1471349081
Civilization is hideously fragile... there's not much between us and the Horrors underneath, just about a coat of varnish.
civilization quotes by OGDEN NASH-1471347641
Progress might have been all right once, but it's gone on too long.
civilization quotes by BRYAN WHITE-1471329872
We never really grow up, we only learn how to act in public.
civilization quotes by SYRUS-1471328118
We are born princes and the civilizing process makes us frogs.
civilization quotes by LORD RAGLAN-1471277667
Culture is roughly anything we do and the monkeys don't.
civilization quotes by SIGMUND FREUD-1471276236
The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.
civil disobedience quotes by HENRY DAVID THOREAU-1471274466
It is not a man's duty, as a matter of course, to devote himself to the eradication of any, even the most enormous wrong; he may still properly have other concerns to engage him; but it is his duty, at least, to wash his hands of it, and, if he gives it no thought longer, not to give it practically his support. If I devote myself to other pursuits and contemplations, I must first see, at least, that I do not pursue them sitting upon another man's shoulders.
civil disobedience quotes by ROBERT A. HEINLEIN-1471196930
I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.
civil disobedience quotes by EDMUND BURKE-1471195521
It is not what a lawyer tells me Imaydo; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.
civil disobedience quotes by CLARENCE DARROW-1471194490
As long as the world shall last there will be wrongs, and if no man objected and no man rebelled, those wrongs would last forever.
civil disobedience quotes by HENRY DAVID THOREAU-1471182668
I think that we should be men first, and subjects afterward. It is not so desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right.
civil disobedience quotes by LEMUEL K. WASHBURN-1471181027
It is necessary to distinguish between the virtue and the vice of obedience.
civil disobedience quotes by JOHN J. MILLER-1471179746
Laws are only words written on paper, words that change on society's whim and are interpreted differently daily by politicians, lawyers, judges, and policemen. Anyone who believes that all laws should always be obeyed would have made a fine slave catcher. Anyone who believes that all laws are applied equally, despite race, religion, or economic status, is a fool.
civil disobedience quotes by MARK TWAIN-1471160603
Each man must for himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong, which course is patriotic and which isn't. You cannot shirk this and be a man. To decide against your conviction is to be an unqualified and excusable traitor, both to yourself and to your country, let men label you as they may.
civil disobedience quotes by RALPH WALDO EMERSON-1471158516
Every actual state is corrupt. Good men must not obey laws too well.
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