C Quotes
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“Civilization is a hopeless race to discover remedies for the evils it produces.”
“Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.”
“Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men.”
Source: Jane Addams's Essays and Speeches on Peace
“Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor.”
“Civilization is a myth. That is the truth this world has taught us. We have not risen above our baser instincts... That is what always has and always will drive us.”
Source: The Walking Dead, Vol. 26: Call to Arms
“Civilization is a natural and inevitable consequence - whether good or evil I am not prepared to state.”
“Civilization is a network and a maze of precedences and custom.”
Source: Kull: Exile of Atlantis
“Civilization is a process in the service of Eros, whose purpose is to combine single human individuals, and after that families, then races, peoples and nations, into one great unity, the unity of mankind. Why this has to happen, we do not know; the work of Eros is precisely this.”
Source: The standard edition of the complete psychological works of Sigmund Freud
“Civilization is a process, not a place.”
Source: High Voltage Habib: Gospel of Undoctrination
“Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.”
“Civilization is a social plague on the planet, and vices are just as necessary to it as is a virus to disease.”
“Civilization is a stream with banks. The stream is sometimes filled with blood from people killing, stealing, shouting and doing the things historians usually record, while on the banks, unnoticed, people build homes, make love, raise children, sing songs, write poetry and even whittle statues. The story of civilization is what happened on the banks.”
“civilization is a transient sickness.”
Source: The Collected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers: 1928-1938
“Civilization is a work of peaceful co-operation.”
Source: Socialism - An Economic and Sociological Analysis: The Economist
“Civilization is a youth with a molotov cocktail in his hand. Culture is the Soviet tank or L.A. cop that guns him down.”
Source: Desert solitaire: a season in the wilderness
“Civilization is always in danger when those who have never learned to obey are given the right to command.”
“Civilization is always threatened from below, by patterns of belief and emotion that may once have been useful to our ancestors, but that are useful no longer.”
Source: The Uses of Pessimism: And the Danger of False Hope
“Civilization is an active deposit which is formed by the combustion of the Present with the Past. Neither in countries without a Present nor in those without a Past is it to be discovered.”
“Civilization is an active deposit which is formed by the combustion of the Present with the Past. Neither in countries without a Present nor in those without a Past is it to be encountered. Proust in Venice, Matisse's birdcages overlooking the flower market at Nice, Gide on the seventeenth-century quais of Toulon, Lorca in Granada, Picasso by Saint-Germain-des-Prés: there lies civilization and for me it can exist only under those liberal regimes in which the Present is alive and therefore capable of assimilating the Past.”
“Civilization is an enormous device for economizing knowledge,.”
Source: Knowledge And Decisions
“Civilization is an enormous improvement on the lack thereof.”
Source: Holidays in Hell
“Civilization is an enslavement vehicle, calculated to dull the senses. Civilization invented boredom.”
“Civilization is based on a clearly defined and widely accepted yet often unarticulated hierarchy. Violence done by those higher on the hierarchy to those lower is nearly always invisible, that is, unnoticed. When it is noticed, it is fully rationalized. Violence done by those lower on the hierarchy to those higher is unthinkable, and when it does occur is regarded with shock, horror, and the fetishization of the victims.”
“Civilization is being poisoned by its own waste products.”
“Civilization is born when all our sentience converge. Puny minds make puny-verse, uni-minds make universe.”
Source: Amantes Assemble: 100 Sonnets of Servant Sultans
“Civilization is built by heroes, who trample all fears under their feet and speak out to the world - I am free, I am immortal, I am indestructible - come all ye who have no home, I'll be your home - come all ye who cannot speak, I'll be your voice - come all ye who cannot stand, I'll be your legs - come all ye oppressed, tormented and discriminated - hold my hand and together we'll build the world, the humane way this time.”
Source: Servitude is Sanctitude
“Civilization is built by sleepless lovers, not careless sleepers.”
Source: Mucize Insan: When The World is Family
“Civilization is built on a number of ultimate principles... respect for human life, the punishment of crimes against property and persons, the equality of all good citizens before the law... or, in a word justice.”
“Civilization is care over conquest, civilization is integration over isolation, civilization is belonging.”
Source: Nazmahal: Palace of Grace
“Civilization is clearly not crucial to human life, as we have mostly been living without it for over a million years now – a few of us even happily at times.”
“Civilization is coming to an end, you understand.”
“Civilization is diaphanous: a dazzling display, beautiful, a brilliant golden orb of order and geometric precision. But just touch it lightly and see toward you what evil things crawl.”
Source: A Line Intersected
“Civilization is held together by duct tape and spit, and I'm worried about the duct tape.”
“Civilization is hideously fragile... there's not much between us and the Horrors underneath, just about a coat of varnish.”
Source: A Coat Of Varnish
“Civilization is in a race between education and catastrophe. Let us learn the truth and spread it as far and wide as our circumstances allow. For the truth is the greatest weapon we have.”
“Civilization is in no immediate danger of running out of energy or even just out of oil. But we are running out of environment-that is, out of the capacity of the environment to absorb energy's impacts without risk of intolerable disruption-and our heavy dependence on oil in particular entails not only environmental but also economic and political liabilities.”
“Civilization is like a thin layer of ice upon a deep ocean of chaos and darkness.”
Source: Nosferatu--Phantom der Nacht
“Civilization is maintained by a very few people in a small number of places and we need only some bombs and a few prisons to blot it out altogether.”
“Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty ones.”
Source: Modes and Morals
“Civilization is much more than the survival of the fittest and the unrelenting culling of the weakest members. Civilized people share a value system that extends far beyond doing whatever it takes to survive. Mere barbarians might be devoted to a life of exploitation. In contrast, civilized people value nature and care for the most vulnerable members of their kind.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“Civilization is not a burden. It is an opportunity.”
Source: Education Between Two Worlds
“Civilization is not a destination,
Civilization is the journey.
Heaven is a people, not a place,
An exercise in attachment, not apathy.”
Source: Insan Himalayanoğlu: It's Time to Defect
“Civilization is Not A Place (The Sonnet)
No matter who likes it not,
Say Gay anyway.
Compliance to discrimination,
Is the coward's way.
A true leader once said, women belong in,
All places where decisions are being made.
I say, fudge it all,
Women just belong, period.
They say, they don't want their kids,
To be hurt learning history.
I say, if learning history makes you hurt,
You are in dire need of therapy.
Civilization begins when we acknowledge our primitiveness.
Civilization is not a place, it's a people, it's a process.”
Source: High Voltage Habib: Gospel of Undoctrination
“Civilization is not a spontaneous generation with any race or nation known to history, but the torch is handed down from race to race and from age to age, and gains in brilliancy as it goes.”
“Civilization is not an heirloom that is left to you, civilization is the keepsake that is left by you.”
Source: Visvavictor: Kanima Akiyor Kainat
“Civilization is not an incurable disease, but it should never be forgotten that the English people are at present afflicted by it.”
Source: The Penguin Gandhi Reader
“Civilization is not and can never be sustainable.”
Source: Endgame, Volume 1: The Problem of Civilization
“Civilization is not by means an easy thing to attain to. There are only two ways by which man can reach it. One is by being cultured, the other by being corrupt.”
Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray (Diversion Classics)
“Civilization is not inherited; it has to be learned and earned by each generation anew; if the transmission should be interrupted for one century, civilization would die, and we should be savages again.”
Source: The Lessons of History
“Civilization is not necessary before Christianity; do both together if you will, but you will find civilization follow Christianity more easily than Christianity follow civilization.”