C Quotes
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“Civilization is not the one that has an abundance of material objects to incessantly crave for, rather true civilization is the one that has an abundance of contentment regardless of material possession.”
Source: Conscience over Nonsense
“Civilization is nothing else but the attempt to reduce force to being the last resort.”
“Civilization is nothing more than the effort to reduce the use of force to the last resort.”
“Civilization is now under the tyranny of relativism.”
“Civilization is only a series of victories against nature.”
“Civilization is only possible for deeply unpleasant animals. It is only an ape that can be truly civilized.”
Source: The Philosopher and the Wolf: Lessons from the Wild on Love, Death, and Happiness
“Civilization is only savagery silver-gilt.”
Source: Allan Quatermain: Mystery & Adventure Story
“Civilization is over-rated, but there isn't much else.”
“Civilization is overrated: but there isn't anything much else.”
Source: Straw for the Fire: From the Notebooks of Theodore Roethke
“Civilization is paralysis.”
“Civilization is perhaps approaching one of those long winters that overtake it from time to time. Romantic Christendom - picturesque, passionate, unhappy episode - may be coming to an end. Such a catastrophe would be no reason for despair.”
Source: The Works of George Santayana: Character and opinion in the United States. The genteel tradition at bay. Dewey's naturalistic metaphysics. Philosophical heresy
“Civilization is so hard on the body that some have called it a disease, despite the arts that keep puny bodies alive to a greater average age, and our greater protection from contagious and germ diseases.”
Source: Adolescence - Its Psychology and Its Relations to Physiology, Anthropology, Sociology, Sex, Crime, and Religion (1931)
“Civilization is social order promoting cultural creation. Four elements constitute it: economic provision, political organization, moral tradition, and the pursuit of knowledge and the arts. It begins where chaos and insecurity end. For when fear is overcome, curiosity and constructiveness are free, and man passes by natural impulse towards the understanding and embellishment of life.”
Source: Our Oriental Heritage: The Story of Civilization
“Civilization is sterilization.”
Source: Retrospect: an omnibus of Aldous Huxley's books
“Civilization is synonym for nonsectarianism.”
Source: Giants in Jeans: 100 Sonnets of United Earth
“Civilization is that mode of conduct which points out to man the path of duty.”
Source: Hind Swaraj
“Civilization is that mode of conduct which points out to man the path of duty. Performance of duty and observance of morality are convertible terms. To observe morality is to attain mastery over our mind and our passions. So doing, we know ourselves.”
Source: Hind Swaraj
“Civilization is the art of creating useless needs.”
“Civilization is the art of living in towns of such size the everyone does not know everyone else.”
“Civilization is the distance man has placed between himself and his excreta.”
“Civilization is the encouragement of differences.”
“Civilization is the intelligent management of human emotions.”
“Civilization is the lamb's skin in which barbarism masquerades.”
Source: The Writings of Thomas Bailey Aldrich
“Civilization is the making of civil persons.”
Source: Time and Tide, by Weare and Tyne. Twenty-five letters to a working man of Sunderland on the laws of work
“Civilization is the mastery of violence, the triumph, constantly challenged, over the aggressive nature of the primate. For primates we have been and primates we shall remain, however often we learn to find joy in a camellia on moss. This is the very purpose of education.”
“Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.”
“Civilization is the process in which one gradually increases the number of people included in the term 'we' or 'us' and at the same time decreases those labeled 'you' or 'them' until that category has no one left in it.”
“Civilization is the process of reducing the infinite to the finite.”
Source: The Essential Holmes: Selections from the Letters, Speeches, Judicial Opinions, and Other Writings of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
“Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.”
Source: Ayn Rand Reader
“Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy.”
“Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.”
“Civilization is the sum total of all those activities that allow men to transcend mere biological existence and reach for a richer mental, aesthetic, material, and spiritual life.”
“Civilization is the way one's own people live. Savagery is the way foreigners live.”
Source: Seed to Harvest: Wild Seed, Mind of My Mind, Clay's Ark, and Patternmaster
“Civilization is the world with its leg asleep.”
“Civilization is to groups what intelligence is to individuals. It is a means of combining the intelligence of many to achieve ongoing group adaptation.”
Source: Parable of the Sower
“Civilization is to groups what intelligence is to individuals. It is a means of combining the intelligence of many to achieve ongoing group adaptation.
Civilization, like intelligence, may serve well, serve adequately, or fail to serve its adaptive function. When civilization fails to serve, it must disintegrate unless it is acted upon by unifying internal or external forces.”
Source: Earthseed: The Complete Series
“Civilization is unbearable, but it is less unbearable at the top.”
“Civilization is vastly overrated.”
Source: Alpha & Omega: A Companion Novella to Cry Wolf
“Civilization is very fragile, all it takes is a few decades of chaos for us to forget humanity and turn into animals. Our base natures can take over very fast. We can forget that we are sentient beings, with laws and codes and ethics.”
“Civilization is what makes you sick.”
“Civilization is when we sit together, with different faces and different forms, yet one sentience.”
Source: Earthquakin' Egalitarian: I Die Everyday So Your Children Can Live
“Civilization isn't built by laws, civilization is built by hearts that dare to disobey injustice.”
Source: The God Sonnets: Naskar Art of Theology
“Civilization itself . . . can easily be swept aside when mob passions are aroused.”
“Civilization itself is housed in the human being.”
Source: From fear set free
“Civilization just takes it as a given that the whole world was flooding. Then science came and you had geology and modern astrophysics, and time became well understood going back billions of years. So enlightened religious people, as a necessity, had to shed the magical elements of the Bible. A little known fact is that Thomas Jefferson did just that. There's something called the Jefferson Bible. It's not widely publicized because it sort of conflicts with certain people's ideas of what the founding fathers were.”
“Civilization largely consists in hiding human nature. When the barbarian learns to hide it we account him enlightened.”
Source: Everyone's Mark Twain
“Civilization may be said indeed to be the creation of its outlaws.”
Source: The Complete Works of James Joyce: Novels, Short Stories, Plays, Poetry, Essays & Letters: Ulysses, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Finnegan’s Wake, Dubliners, The Cat and the Devil, Exiles, Chamber Music, Pomes Penyeach, Stephen Hero, Giacomo Joyce, Critical Writings & more
“Civilization may progress, human nature will remain the same throughout all ages.”
“Civilization means conforming to a standard of behavior that may not seem natural to us.”
“Civilization means food and literature all round. Beefsteaks and fiction magazines for all. First-class proteins for the body, fourth-class love-stories for the spirit.”
Source: The collected works of Aldous Huxley