C Quotes
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“Civilisation, the orderly world in which we live, is frail. We are skating on thin ice. There is a fear of a collective disaster. Terrorism, genocide, flu, tsunamis.”
“Civilisationen är resan, inte en destination.”
Source: Världsviking: Gudomlig Poesi
“Civilisations have been destroyed many times, and this civilisation is no different. It can be destroyed. We can think of time in terms of millions of years and life will resume little by little. The cosmos operates for us very urgently, but geological time is different.”
“Civilised adults do not take apple juice with dinner.”
Source: The Fran Lebowitz Reader
“Civilised life, you know, is based on a huge number of illusions in which we all collaborate willingly. The trouble is we forget after a while that they are illusions and we are deeply shocked when reality is torn down around us.”
“Civilised my syphilised yarbles.”
Source: A Clockwork Orange: Restored Edition
“Civility also requires relearning how to disagree without being disagreeable. Surely you can question my policies without questioning my faith or, for that matter, my citizenship.”
“Civility and good decision making do not require a multipage statement of ethics that a team of lawyers drafts. All it takes is a desire to do the right thing and a simple code of conduct like The Four-Way Test to bring out the best in every person who uses it.”
Source: The Trusted Way: A Story About Building a Life and Business of Character
“Civility applies while dealing with humans, but while dealing with primitive apes in the shape of humans, you must be firm, because if you are not, these apes will turn this world back into the jungle whence we came.”
Source: Monk Meets World
“Civility cost nothing.”
“Civility costs nothing, and buys everything.”
“Civility does not ...mean the mere outward gentleness of speech cultivated for the occasion, but an inborn gentleness and desire to do the opponent good.”
Source: The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi
“Civility is a charm that attracts the love of all men.”
“Civility is a desire to receive civilities, and to be accounted well-bred.”
“Civility is a work of the imagination, for it is through the imagination that we render others sufficiently like ourselves for them to become subjects of tolerance and respect, if not always affection.”
Source: A Passion for Democracy: American Essays
“Civility is an affectation if it is not informed by some deeper quality of character.”
“Civility is not a sign of weakness.”
“Civility is not a specific code of behavior as much as it is a call to unrelenting preemptive thought, and steady effort to care about influence on others.”
Source: We Need to Have a Word: Words of Wisdom, Courage and Patience for Work, Home and Everywhere
“Civility is not a tactic or a sentiment. It is the determined choice of trust over cynicism, of community over chaos.”
“Civility is not about dousing strongly held views. It's about making sure that people are willing to respect other perspectives.”
“Civility is not not saying negative or harsh things. It is not the absence of critical analysis. It is the manner in which we are sharing this territorial freedom of political discussion. If our discourse is yelled and screamed and interrupted and patronized, that's uncivil.”
“Civility is not simply about manners.”
“Civility is not what we do because we agree with one another. It is what we do because we belong to one another.”
Source: Save Your City: How Toxic Culture Kills Community & What to Do About It
“Civility is only a passenger - not a driver - on the information superhighway.”
Source: The IMac Book
“Civility is perhaps a quaint notion but civility in Parliament is something we should always strive to uphold.”
“Civility is the art and act of caring for others.”
“Civility is the everyday ethic of honoring the dignity of others as we would wish our own to be honored—an active commitment to justice, respect, and mutual responsibility in shared civic life.”
“Civility is the natural state for people who know how limited their own individual powers are and know, too, that they need the conversation.”
“Civility isn't just some optional value in a multicultural, multistate democratic republic. Civility is the key to civilization.”
“Civility means a great deal more than just being nice to one another. It is complex and encompasses learning how to connect successfully and live well with others, developing thoughtfulness, and fostering effective self-expression and communication. Civility includes courtesy, politeness, mutual respect, fairness, good manners, as well as a matter of good health. Taking an active interest in the well-being of our community and concern for the health of our society is also involved in civility.”
“Civility requires that we listen and interact with intent to learn and respect others opinions.”
Source: The Power of Civility: Top Experts Reveal the Secrets to Social Capital
“Civility, it is said, means obeying the unenforceable.”
“Civility, which is a disposition to accommodate and oblige others, is essentially the same in every country; but good breeding, asit is called, which is the manner of exerting that disposition, is different in almost every country, and merely local; and every man of sense imitates and conforms to that local good breeding of the place which he is at.”
“Civilization - a heap of rubble scavenged by scrawny English Lit. vultures.”
“Civilization - and by this I do not mean talking cinemas and tinned food, nor even surgery and hygienic houses, but the whole moral and artistic organization of Europe - has not in itself the power of survival. It came into being through Christianity, and without it has no significance or power to command allegiance ... It is no longer possible, as it was in the time of Gibbon, to accept the benefits of civilization and at the same time deny the supernatural basis on which it rests ... Christianity ... is in greater need of combative strength than it has been for centuries.”
“Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them. Operations of thought are cavalry charges in a battle - they are limited in number, they require fresh horses, and must only be made at decisive moments.”
“Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them.”
“Civilization advances by invention, but survives by tradition.”
“Civilization after civilization, it is the same. The world falls to tyranny with a whisper. The frightened are ever keen to bow to a perceived necessity, in the belief that necessity forces conformity, and conformity a certain stability. In a world shaped into conformity, dissidents stand out, are easily branded and dealt with. There is no multitude of perspectives, no dialogue. The victim assumes the face of the tyrant, self-righteous and intransigent, and wars breed like vermin. And people die.”
“Civilization – and by this I do not mean talking cinemas and tinned food, nor even surgery and hygienic houses, but the whole moral and artistic organization of Europe – has not in itself the power of survival. It came into being through Christianity, and without it has no significance or power to command allegiance…That is the first discovery, that Christianity is essential to civilization and that it is in greater need of combative strength than it has been for centuries.”
“Civilization and profit go hand in hand.”
“Civilization and the life of nations are governed by the same laws as prevail throughout nature and organic life.”
Source: Eternity; World-war Thoughts on Life and Death, Religion, and the Theory of Evolution
“Civilization and violence are antithetical concepts.”
Source: The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.:
“Civilization as it is known today could not have evolved, nor can it survive, without an adequate food supply.”
“Civilization as we know it today would be in jeopardy if the Republicans win the Senate.”
“Civilization as we know it will come to an end sometime in this century unless we can find a way to live without fossil fuels.”
“Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock.”
“Civilization begins with distillation”
“Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty, and dies with chaos.”
“Civilization can never be sustainable.”
Source: Walking on Water: Reading, Writing and Revolution