1,222 Quotes About Civilization

Most civilisations, perhaps, look shinier in general terms and from several light-years away.

We are about to sacrifice our civilization for the opportunity of a very small number of people to continue to make enormous amounts of money. We are about to sacrifice the biosphere so that rich people in countries like mine can live in luxury. But it is the sufferings of the many which pay for the luxuries of the few.

Και πίσω από τους Λαπίθες και τους Κενταύρους διακρίνουμε τους δύο μεγάλους αιώνιους αντιπάλους: το νου και το χτήνος, τον πολιτισμό και τη βαρβαρότητα.

One may question whether real civilisation is so safely afloat that we can afford to use our pens for boring holes in the bottom of it.

...whenever a new, especially successful form of an infection emerges, it will spread rapidly around the globe.

There is no specific number of days after which so-called civilized societies deem it inappropriate for a female to be topless in public.

La historia de las interacciones de los pueblos distintos es lo que configuró el mundo moderno mediante la conquista, las epidemias y el genocidio.

The collective principle asserts that ... no society can legitimately call itself civilised if a sick person is denied medical aid because of lack of means.

I don't want to admit that the savages are winning, that the jungle is creeping in and recapturing the civilized world--the jungle where the only law is the law of the jungle--but on many days every week that's how it feels.