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“What then is the intellectual advantage of civilization over primitive savagery? It is not necessarily that each civilized man has more knowledge but that he requires far less.”

Men Civilization Intellectual Advantage Civilized Primitive Savagery More Knowledge

Book:Knowledge And Decisions

Source: Knowledge And Decisions

“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.”

Men Way Mean Two Easy Civilization Civilized Two Ways Easy Things

Book:The Picture of Dorian Gray (Diversion Classics)

Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray (Diversion Classics)

“for civilization to survive, the human race has to remain civilized.”

Humans Fear Peace Race Civilization Human Race Zone Civilized Twilight Zone

Author:Rod Serling

“I could show fight on natural selection having done and doing more for the progress of civilization than you seem inclined to admit. Remember what risk the nations of Europe ran, not so many centuries ago of being overwhelmed by the Turks, and how ridiculous such an idea now is! The more civilised so-called Caucasian races have beaten the Turkish hollow in the struggle for existence. Looking to the world at no very distant date, what an endless number of the lower races will have been eliminated by the higher civilized races throughout the world.”

Source: Life and Letters of Charles Darwin: the Evolution

“Civilization is only possible for deeply unpleasant animals. It is only an ape that can be truly civilized.”

Animal Civilization Civilized Apes

Book:The Philosopher and the Wolf: Lessons from the Wild on Love, Death, and Happiness

Source: The Philosopher and the Wolf: Lessons from the Wild on Love, Death, and Happiness

“The point of civilization is to be civilized; the purpose of action is to perpetuate society, for only in society can philosophy truly take place.”

Philosophy Action Purpose Civilization Civilized

Book:Dream of Scipio

Source: Dream of Scipio

“Walls, towns, rules, and day-to-day life doesn't make us civilized ... That's organization and ritual. Civilization lives in our hearts and heads or it doesn't exist at all.”

Heart Wall Civilization Organization Towns Civilized Ritual Day To Day Day Life Day To Day Life Head And Heart

Book:Dust & Decay

Source: Dust & Decay

“The more civilized a nation, the more conformed its population, until that civilization's last age arrives, when multiplicity wages war with conformity. The former grows ever wilder, ever more dysfunctional in its extremities; whilst the latter seeks to increase its measure of control, until such efforts acquire diabolical tyranny.' - Traveller”

War Age Lasts Nations Grows Effort Civilization Increase Population Tyranny Former Acquire Latter Civilized Conformity Wages Traveller Multiplicity Extremity Diabolical Wilder

Author:Steven Erikson

“Civilization enables us constantly to profit from knowledge which we individually do not possess and because each individual's use of his particular knowledge may serve to assist others unknown to him in achieving their ends that men as members of civilized society can pursue their individual ends so much more successfully than they could alone.”

Men May Ends Use Individual Knowledge Society Achieve Particular Civilization Members Profit Pursue Civilized Civilized Society

Author:Friedrich August von Hayek

“There is a demon in technology. It was put there by man and man will have to exorcise it before technological civilization can achieve the eighteenth-century ideal of humane civilized life.”

Men Technology Achieve Century Civilization Ideals Demon Civilized Technological Humane

Author:Rene Dubos

“Twenty centuries of 'progress' have brought the average citizen a vote, a national anthem, a Ford, a bank account, and a high opinion of himself, but not the capacity to live in high density without befouling and denuding his environment, nor a conviction that such capacity, rather than such density, is the true test of whether he is civilized.”

Source: Game Management 118

“There is no fundamental difference in the ways of thinking of primitive and civilized man. A close connection between race and personality has never been established.”

Thinking Men Way Differences Race Personality Civilization Connections Fundamentals Civilized Primitive Way Of Thinking

Author:Franz Boas