Civilization quotations
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- Orson Welles99◆ It has been said that civilization is twenty-four hours and two meals away from barbarism.
- Neil Gaiman99◆ I believe empathy is the most essential quality of civilization.
- Roger Ebert99◆ Civilization is a hopeless race to discover remedies for the evils it produces.
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau99◆ I like to pay taxes. With them, I buy civilization.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.99◆ But the guilty person is only one of the targets of punishment. For punishment is directed above all at others, at all the potentially guilty.
- Michel Foucault99◆ You're captives of a civilizational system that more or less compels you to go on destroying the world in order to live. … You are captives—and you have made a captive of the world itself. That's what's at stake, isn't it?—your captivity and the captivity of the world.
- Daniel Quinn99◆ My characters are more like men than these real men are, see. They're rough and rude, they got hands and they got bellies. They hate and they lust; break the skin of civilization and you find the ape, roaring and red-handed.
- Robert E. Howard99◆ Within a system which denies the existence of basic human rights, fear tends to be the order of the day. Fear of imprisonment, fear of torture, fear of death, fear of losing friends, family, property or means of livelihood, fear of poverty, fear of isolation, fear of failure. A most insidious form of fear is that which masquerades as common sense or even wisdom, condemning as foolish, reckless, insignificant or futile the small, daily acts of courage which help to preserve man's self-respect and inherent human dignity. It is not easy for a people conditioned by fear under the iron rule of the principle that might is right to free themselves from the enervating miasma of fear. Yet even under the most crushing state machinery courage rises up again and again, for fear is not the natural state of civilized man.
- Aung San Suu Kyi99◆ There's nothing fundamentally wrong with people. Given a story to enact that puts them in accord with the world, they will live in accord with the world. But given a story to enact that puts them at odds with the world, as yours does, they will live at odds with the world. Given a story to enact in which they are the lords of the world, they will ACT like lords of the world. And, given a story to enact in which the world is a foe to be conquered, they will conquer it like a foe, and one day, inevitably, their foe will lie bleeding to death at their feet, as the world is now.
- Daniel Quinn99◆ Civilization is a race between disaster and education.
- H.G. Wells99◆ Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.
- Ayn Rand99◆ The premise of the Taker story is 'the world belongs to man'. … The premise of the Leaver story is 'man belongs to the world'.
- Daniel Quinn99◆ Nothing living should ever be treated with contempt. Whatever it is that lives, a man, a tree, or a bird, should be touched gently, because the time is short. Civilization is another word for respect for life...
- Elizabeth Goudge99◆ The method of doubt must be applied to civilization; we must doubt its necessity, its excellence, and its permanence.
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