1,222 Quotes About Civilization

Bottom line is that we are running out of everything, but we still pay less serious attention to the true crises. Our policymakers and key players continue to bark up the wrong trees. Our selfish motivations will not give any chance to future generation to live happily but suffer from unpredictable scenarios. The world requires global disciplinary action to prevent the looming danger

You can best serve civilization by being against what usually passes for it.

People who can read and write expertly, as you can, are miracles and, in my opinion, entitle us to suspect we might be civilized after all.

If this is called civilization, then I am afraid humanity is no more civilized than the Tyrannosaurus Rex.

Modern man has successfully razed the imaginative landscapes of primal peoples the whole world over. Kill the gods first, slaughter the sacred animals, rewrite the mythologies, and build roads through the holy places. Do all this and watch the people decline. Without souls, they soon die, leaving dead shells, zombie cultures, shambling aimlessly towards oblivion.

Where the human need for order meetsthe human tendency to mayhem, where civilization runs smack against its discontents, you find friction, and a great deal of general wear and tear.

[What do you want to be when you grow up?] "A wrecker of civilizaton

The "norm" for humanity is love.Brutality is an aberration.We are not sinners by nature.We learn to be bad.We are taught to stray from our good paths.We are made to be crazy by other people who are also crazy and who draw for us a map of the world which is ugly, negative, fearful, and crazy.

Primary purposes of a mirror: (1) To help civilized men realize their imperfections, and, (2) To help the imperfect hide their imperfections.