“It is always the moralists who do the most harm. Abortion is the logical outcome of civilization, only the jungle gives birth and moulders away as nature decrees. Man plans.” MenGivingPlansBirthCivilizationHarmOutcomesAbortionLogicalJungleDecreeMoralist Book:Homo Faber Source: Homo Faber
“A modern and humane civilization must control conception or sink into barbaric cruelty to individuals.” IndividualModernBirthCivilizationCrueltyConceptionHumaneBirth ControlBarbaric Author:Marie Stopes
“[On peanut M&Ms:] It is the eggness of them. A shell, chocolate placenta, proteiny peanut baby. Life shape, birth shape, cell shape, protoplasmic-ooze shape. A shape that calls straight through civilization to our reptilian brains.” BrainFoodBabyBirthCivilizationShapesCellsChocolateShellsPeanutsPlacenta Author:Cynthia Heimel
“We don't have a great clash of civilizations, a clash of ideologies, a clash of alternative models, where governments thought to themselves, if we go too far, if we sort of trample unreasonably on rights, we'll give birth to a political movement which will cost us our credibility, and will possibly cost us our offices, because people will vote for the other team, the other guys.” PeopleIfsGivingGovernmentPoliticalGuyRightsTeamMovementBirthCivilizationCostOfficeModelsVoteIdeologyAlternativesCredibilityClashOther GuysPolitical MovementsClash Of Civilizations Author:Edward Snowden
“Technique has taken over the whole of civilization. Death, procreation, birth all submit to technical efficiency and systemization.” WholeTakenBirthCivilizationTechniqueSubmitEfficiencyProcreation Author:Jacques Ellul
“Water, like religion and ideology, has the power to move millions of people. Since the very birth of human civilization, people have moved to settle close to it. People move when there is too little of it. People move when there is too much of it. People journey down it. People write, sing and dance about it. People fight over it. And all people, everywhere and every day, need it.” PeopleNeedsWritingHumansLittlesMovingFightingWaterMillionsToo MuchJourneyBirthCivilizationMovedEnvironmentalIdeologySettlingOver ItDrink WaterHuman CivilizationWater ResourcesWater Power Author:Mikhail Gorbachev