1,222 Quotes About Civilization

It was not exasperation.... It was anger for the relentless force of evolution that insisted on endowing man with increased powers without removing the vestigial vices that prevented him from using them.

there was no television in the Netherlands during the afternoons!

People in this civilization are starving in the middle of plenty. This is a civilization that is going down, not because it hasn't got the knowledge that would save it, but because nobody will use the knowledge.

The more civilization progresses, the hollower it becomes and the easier to destroy it.

Civilization must be preserved,' says he.'Civilization's doing fine,' I said. 'We just don't happen to be where it is.

We, ironically known as the civilizados - in practically everything that matters they're a damned sight more civilized than we are - bring them so-called progress, which harms them, so-called change, which harms them, so-called civilization, which harms them even more, and desease, which kills them.

Whatever name civilizations give to the arrangement where a man lives with a woman, it is always better to call it a marriage.

Since the days of cave civilization to the modern day microprocessor civilization, the relation between man and woman remained the same. Then it was at a carnal level. And, today it is still at carnal level.

Violence is not necessary to destroy a civilization. Each civilization dies fromindifference toward the unique values which created it.