1,222 Quotes About Civilization

Extending hospitality to all, even to the most cloddish, truly is the basis of civilization. The fact that the most cloddish, having nothing better to do, always show up and spoil the party for everyone else probably spells civilization's ultimate doom.

endless strings of people driven into the City to be saved by force and to be whipped into happiness

The world is carried in the wild heart of a tiger. When the last wild tiger is extinguished, civilization will turn on itself.

To, čo robíme, nie je civilizované, viem to. Ale viem i to, že aj tebe sa to muselo prihodiť - presne ako ja si sa zobudil a zrazu si si uvedomil niečo nezvratné: nežijeme už v civilizovaných časoch.

The cradle of civilization build by great emperor will fall one day and become antiques in future.

The experience of watching your garden grow gives you some idea of how future AI systems will feel when observing human life.

Civilization is not a planet or land and its resources. It is just your brain how works that, constructive or destructive.

No, the shepherd’s life in poetry has always been an ideal in which the negative features, the tearing of oneself away from the great world and the disregarding of its customs, have been the decisive elements. It was a kind of sport to imagine oneself in a situation which held the promise of liberation from the fetters of civilization whilst retaining its advantages.

To me, and to the participants of at the Green Bank conference, the idea that a civilization might destroy itself is both ludicrous and likely. We are pathetically inadequate at long-term planning, idiotically primitive in our destructive urges and pathologically incapable of simply getting along.