1,222 Quotes About Civilization

Novelty is a new kind of loneliness.

Civilization is always threatened from below, by patterns of belief and emotion that may once have been useful to our ancestors, but that are useful no longer.

All of us are in two stories at the same time," said the sandwich lady. "Life and Times. There is our own personal story, and the bigger story of what's happening around us. When both are in trouble simultaneously, when the crisis inside you intersects with the crisis outside you, things get a little crazy.

در این عصر موثر که نهضت گل و فواره چهره ی نوینی به جامعه انقلابی ما داده، ما اهالی غیور گذر دردار اسبق و زیر طاقی سابق که بدون هیچ سوپیشینه ای همواره از نظر لطف برزن محل محروم مانده ایم، کرارا و مکررا تقاضا داریم التفاتن دستور فرمایند این گذر که قرنها از قافله تمدن عقب مانده، یک شبه ره صد ساله پیموده در اسرع وقت با اقدام به آسفالت به دنیای متمدن مربوط شود...

We are living in an increasingly feminized society. Some people view that as an increasingly civilized society, but it has left our boys with deep desires for honor but few outlets for displaying it appropriately.

When men learnt to talk in the beginning of the civilised word they used language not as a means of communication alone but as a means of excluding others--using it as a way of setting themselves apart and shutting out strangers.

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.

Stepping up in the face of injustice, is not vigilantism, it's humanity - and being indifferent to injustice is not smartness, it's barbarism.

Forget sleep, forget thirst, forget hunger and just work - work my friend, work for humanity, work for our seven billion sisters, brothers and friends - work, so that our kind can witness the real dawn of civilization.