C Quotes
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“Civilization merely develops man's capacity for a greater variety of sensations, and ... absolutely nothing else.”
“Civilization must be destroyed. The hairy saints of the North have earned this crumb by their complaints.”
Source: The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens
“Civilization never recedes; the law of necessity ever forces it onwards.”
Source: The Collected Works Of Jules Verne
“Civilization never stands still; if in one country it is falling back, in another it is changing, evolving, becoming more complicated, bringing fresh experience to body and mind, breeding new desires, and exploiting Nature's cupboard for their satisfaction.”
Source: Evolution and Ethics
“Civilization no longer needs to open up wilderness; it needs wilderness to help open up the still largely unexplored human mind.”
Source: The Dark Range: A Naturalist's Night Notebook
“Civilization on Earth planet was equated with selfishness and greed; those people who lived in a civilized state exploited those who did not. There were shortages of vital commodities on Earth planet, and the people in the civilized nations were able to monopolize those commodities by reason of their greater economic strength. This imbalance appeared to be at the root of the
disputes.”
“Civilization originates in conquest abroad and repression at home.”
“Civilization owes to the Islamic world some of its most important tools and achievements...the Muslim genius has added much to the culture of all peoples.”
“Civilization rests on the fact that most people do the right thing most of the time.”
“Civilization runs a greater risk if we maintain our present attitude to religion than if we give it up.”
“Civilization sails prettily like a child's rubber balloon until it hits a sharp object; then it is likely to collapse like the balloon.”
“Civilization, society, is like a playground once you're hyper aware”
“Civilization starts with selflessness, for the entire animal kingdom is predicated on selfishness.”
Source: Solo Standing on Guard: Life Before Law
“Civilization starts with us, so if we want to build a just and humane civilization, we must be just and humane ourselves. Look in the mirror - what do you see - do you see an animal that looks like a human - or do you see something more - look deeply - look beyond the shape and everything external - and you'll witness an entire civilization in the shape of a human.”
Source: I Vicdansaadet Speaking: No Rest Till The World is Lifted
“Civilization survives on the constant discovery of amity and an equal supply of damnation.”
“Civilization today reminds me of an ape with a blowtorch playing in a room full of dynamite. It looks like the monkeys are about to operate the zoo, and the inmates are taking over the asylum.”
“Civilization tries to persuade us we are going towards something, a distant goal. We have forgotten that our only goal is to live, to live each and every day, and that if we live each and every day, our true goal is achieved.”
“Civilization was a relentless war that man was doomed to lose eventually.”
Source: Pompeii
“Civilization was a thin, dangerously fragile veneer, and when that veneer cracked, man became one with the beasts again, falling back into the slime of the primeval abyss he prided himself on having climbed up from.”
Source: The Naked Face
“Civilization will end within 15 or 30 years unless immediate action is taken against problems facing mankind.”
“Civilization will never see the sun till the civilians reject their gun.”
Source: Mücadele Muhabbet: Gospel of An Unarmed Soldier
“Civilization will not attain to its perfection until the last stone from the last church falls on the last priest.”
“Civilization will reach maturity only when it learns to value diversity of character and of ideas.”
“Civilization, after all, is defined by what we forbid, more than what we permit.”
Source: Shantaram: A Novel
“Civilization, in fact, grows more maudlin and hysterical; especially under democracy it tends to degenerate into a mere combat of crazes; the whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary. Wars are no longer waged by the will of superior men, capable of judging dispassionately and intelligently the causes behind them and the effects flowing out of them. The are now begun by first throwing a mob into a panic; they are ended only when it has spent its ferine fury.”
“Civilization, in the real sense of the term, consists not in the multiplication, but in the deliberate and voluntary reduction of wants.”
Source: India of My Dreams
“Civilization, let me tell you what it is. First the soldier, then the merchant, then the priest, then the lawyer. The merchant hires the soldier and priest to conquer the country for him. First the soldier, he is a murderer; then the priest, he is a liar; then the merchant, he is a thief; and they all bring in the lawyer to make their laws and defend their deeds, and there you have your civilization!”
Source: Ship of Fools: A Novel
“Civilization, like an airplane in flight, survives only as it keeps going forward.”
Source: A Voice Crying in the Wilderness
“Civilization, or "the system" or "society" or whatever you want to call it, is best served not by mules but by free men.”
“Civilization, or that which is so called, has operated two ways to make one part of society more affluent and the other part more wretched than would have been the lot of either in a natural state.”
Source: Agrarian Justice, opposed to Agrarian Law, and Agrarian Monopoly. Being a plan for ameliorating the condition of man, by creating in every nation a National Fund
“Civilization, stretching up to recognize that every child is a portion of State wealth, may presently make some movement to recognize maternity as a business or office needing time and strength, not as a mere passing detail thrown in among mountains of other slavery.”
“Civilization, that great fraud of our times, has promised man that by complicating his existence it would multiply his pleasures. ... Civilization has promised man freedom, at the cost of giving up everything dear to him, which it arrogantly treated as lies and fantasies. ... Hour by hour needs increase and are nearly always unsatisfied, peopling the earth with discontented rebels. The superfluous has become a necessity and luxuries indispensable.”
“Civilization, to be worthy of the name, must afford other methods of settling human differences than those of blood letting.”
Source: The Centralia Conspiracy
“Civilization, we shall find, like Universalism and Christianity, is anti evolutionary in its effects; it works against the laws and conditions which regulated the earlier stages of man's ascent.”
Source: Evolution and Ethics
“Civilization... wrecks the planet from seafloor to stratosphere.”
“Civilization...is a matter of imponderables, of delight in the thins of the mind, of love of beauty, of honor, grace, courtesy, delicate feeling. Where imponderables, are things of first importance, there is the height of civilization, and, if at the same time, the power of art exists unimpaired, human life has reached a level seldom attained and very seldom surpassed.”
“Civilizations are born from the marriage of bureaucracy and mythology. The computer-based network is a new type of bureaucracy that is far more powerful and relentless than any human-based bureaucracy we’ve seen before. This network is also likely to create inter-computer mythologies that will be far more complex and alien than any human-made god. The potential benefits of this network are enormous. The potential downside is the destruction of human civilization.”
Source: Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI
“Civilizations are not remembered by their business people, their bankers or lawyers. They're remembered by the arts.”
“Civilizations are the generations of the racial soul. As family-rearing, and then writing, bound the generations together, handing down the lore of the dying to the young, so print and commerce and a thousand ways of communication may bind the civilizations together, and preserve for future cultures all that is of value for them in our own. Let us, before we die, gather up our heritage, and offer it to our children.”
Source: Our Oriental Heritage
“Civilizations can only be understood by those who are civilized.”
Source: Adventure of ideas
“Civilizations come and go.
Why?
Because man's greed will always get in the way.”
“Civilizations come and go; they conquer the earth and crumble into dust; but faith survives every desolation.”
Source: The Life of Greece: The Story of Civilization
“Civilizations die from philosophical calm, irony, and a sense of fair play quite as surely as they die of debauchery.”
Source: The Modern Temper
“Civilizations die from suicide, not by murder.”
“Civilizations evolve over time, and most scholars of civilization, including people like Carol Quigley, argue that they go through periods of warring states, and eventually evolve into a universal state.”
“Civilizations fall because the people inside the Sanctuary throw open the gates.”
“Civilizations grow by agreements and accomodations and accretions, not by repudiations. The rebels and the revolutionaries are only eddies, they keep the stream from getting stagnant but they get swept down and absorbed, they're a side issue. Quiet desperation is another name for the human condition. If revolutionaries would learn that they can't remodel society by day after tomorrow -- haven't the wisdom to and shouldn't be permitted to -- I'd have more respect for them ... Civilizations grow and change and decline -- they aren't remade.”
“Civilizations have been founded and maintained on theories which refused to obey facts.”
Source: What The Butler Saw
“Civilizations have come and gone and, in spite of our vaunted progress, I am tempted to ask again and again, 'To what purpose?'”
Source: The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi
“Civilizations proceed from the heart rather than from the head.”
Source: A pen warmed-up in hell: Mark Twain in protest