1,222 Quotes About Civilization

The flaw in being civilized is that it permit’s the uncivilized among us to perpetrate horrific crimes against us in the name of freedom and equality.Foreword 'RHG

والحضارة في خلقها الدائم لضرورات جديدة و قدرتها على فرض الحاجة على من لا حاجة له ، تعزز التبادل المادي بين الإنسان وبين الطبيعة وتغري الإنسان بالحياة البرَّانية على حساب حياته الجوانية. ((انتج لتربح واربح لتبدد)) هذه سمة في جبلة الحضارة ، أما الثقافة فتميل إلى التقليل من إحتيجات الإنسان أو الحد من درجة إشباعها ، وبهذه الطريقة توسع في آفاق الحرية الجوانية للإنسان.

Let the war turn off the families. Our civilization is flinging itself to pieces. Stand back from the centrifuge.

A chair is the first thing you need when you don’t really need anything, and is therefore a peculiarly compelling symbol of civilization. For it is civilization, not survival, that requires design.

(Catholic) monks taught metallurgy, introduced new crops, copied ancient texts, preserved literacy, pioneered in technology, invented champagne, improved the European landscape, provided for wanderers of every stripe, and looked after the lost and shipwrecked.

Civilization depends on continually making the effort, of never giving in. It needs to be cared for by men of goodwill, protected from the dark.

Poets write beautiful words to describe savagery-wrapped civilization nowadays.

Famine was the mark of a maturing agricultural society, the very badge of civilization.

The only gain of civilisation for mankind is the greater capacity for variety of sensations - and absolutely nothing more.