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Civilization Quotes (page 23)

If we would have civilization and the exertion indispensable to its success, we must have property; if we have property, we must have its rights; if we have the rights of property, we must take those consequences of the rights of property which are inseparable from the rights themselves. James F. Cooper
Robert E. Howard quote: "The more I see of what you call civilization, the more highly..."
The more I see of what you call civilization, the more highly I think of what you call savagery! Robert E. Howard
What is vital and healthy does not necessarily survive... An art, a whole civilization, may at any time slip through men's fingers in a very few years and be gone beyond recovery. If we are alive when such a thing is happening we shall hardly notice it until too late; and it is most unlikely that we shall know its causes. C. S. Lewis
Society, civilized society at least, is never very ready to believe anything to the detriment of those who are both rich and fascinating. It feels instinctively that manners are of more importance than morals, and, in its opinion, the highest respectability is of much less value than the possession of a good chef. Oscar Wilde
Mervyn Peake quote: "Cold love’s the loveliest love of all. So clear, so crisp, so..."
Cold love’s the loveliest love of all. So clear, so crisp, so empty. In short, so civilized. Mervyn Peake
In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something less, because passing civilization along from one generation to the next ought to be the highest honor and the highest responsibility anyone could have. Lee Iacocca
Fernando Pessoa quote: "back home.. the tablecloth of civilization makes us forget the..."
back home.. the tablecloth of civilization makes us forget the already painted pine it covers! ([50], Zenith trans.) Fernando Pessoa
England's civil war had ended in a consensus as the English discovered that they hated foreigners more than they hated their own countrymen. Len Deighton
That may be true," I thought, "But they don't have digital cable or Internet access, so really what's the point of being alive?" Civilized life, with all its threats and potential dooms, is too much to bear without the respite of three hundred channels. True, Osama bin Laden may very well send nuclear-bomb-filled suitcases on Amtrak trains into Penn Station, but until then: "I Love the 80s on VH1. Augusten Burroughs
Our civilization survives in the complacency of cowardly or malignant minds -- a sacrifice to the vanity of aging adolescents Albert Camus
Since 2001, the U.S. government has abandoned its role as a champion of human rights and has perpetrated terrible and illegal abuses in prisons in Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo, sent prisoners secretly to other nations to be tortured, denied the applicability of the Geneva Convention restraints, and severely restricted time-honored civil liberties within our own country. Certain political leaders of other nations, who are inclined to perpetrate human rights abuses to quiet dissenting voices and... Jimmy Carter
Chuck Palahniuk quote: "Reject the basic assumptions of civilization, especially the..."
Reject the basic assumptions of civilization, especially the importance of material possessions. Chuck Palahniuk
Michael Pollan quote: "our modern civilization returns exceedingly little of what it..."
...our modern civilization returns exceedingly little of what it borrows." -Martin Renner Michael Pollan
Where do I get my ideas from? You might as well have asked that of Beethoven. He was goofing around in Germany like everybody else, and all of a sudden this stuff came gushing out of him. It was music. I was goofing around like everybody else in Indiana, and all of a sudden stuff came gushing out. It was disgust with civilization. Kurt Vonnegut
Great numbers of children will be born who understand electronics and atomic power as well as other forms of energy. They will grow into scientists and engineers of a new age which has the power to destroy civilization unless we learn to live by spiritual laws. Edgar Cayce

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