111 Quotes About Civilisation

বৃদ্ধাঙ্গুল হয়তো দেখতে সাধারণ আঙুলের মত, আসলে এটি স্রষ্টার দেয়া এক বিস্ময়কর উপহার! যদি সব আঙুল দীর্ঘ ও সোজা হতো, তবে কোনও কাজ সহজে করা বা কিছু ধরা আমাদের জন্য অসম্ভব হতো! যদি বৃদ্ধাঙ্গুল না থাকতো, তাহলে মানব সভ্যতা অনেক পিছিয়ে পড়তো!

Most civilisation is based on cowardice. It's so easy to civilize by teaching cowardice. You water down the standards which would lead to bravery. You restrain the will. You regulate the appetites. You fence in the horizons. You make a law for every movement. You deny the existence of chaos. You teach even the children to breathe slowly. You tame.

If not prevented, desertification of the world can one day make the camels as the best and the sole cars of our civilisation!

Some moments arrive and we wish to see no trace at all from the civilisation! And such moments are the best proof that our civilisation has a demonic side!

À la lumière de cette tradition, et dans l'esprit de Montaigne, je dirais que lorsque je discute avec un individu avec qui je suis ou non d'accord, s'il a une bonne idée, c'est la mienne, et s'il en a une mauvaise, eh bien, c'est la sienne.Ce rapport à autrui est celui que les civilisations devraient nourrir entre elles; malheureusement, on retient souvent le moins bon des civilisations dominantes.

Simon stopped listening. He realised he'd had enough. Enough of the theories, enough of the mystery, enough of the bullshit. Enough of the soldiers and guns and MI5. Enough of bugs in phones and in people he cared about. Enough of not being cared about back. Enough of uncertainty and lies and civilisation, collapsing or not. Enough of is part in it, his place, his role; the character of Simon Parfitt and all the baggage it entailed.

I'm sick. I've eaten civilisation and I'm sick.

Biggest fallacy of legal system in civilised societies is that ‘truth” has to be proved, so by default ‘untruth’ prevails.

Step by step they were led to things which dispose to vice, the lounge, the bath, the elegant banquet. All this in their ignorance they called civilisation, when it was but a part of their servitude.