The word '
civilization' to my mind is coupled with death. When I use the word, I see
civilization as a crippling, thwarting thing, a stultifying thing. For me it was always so. I don't believe in the golden ages, you see...
civilization is the arteriosclerosis of culture.
View quotes by Henry MillerEvolution made
civilization steward of this planet. A hundred thousand years later, the steward stood before evolution not helper but destroyer, not healer but parasite. So evolution withdrew its gift, passed
civilization by, rescued the planet from intelligence and handed it to love.
View quotes by Richard BachCivilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe.
Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.
View quotes by Ayn RandI would seriously question whether anybody is really foolish enough to really say what they mean. Sometimes I think that
civilization as we know it would kind of break down if we all were completely honest.
View quotes by Liz HurleyAmerica is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without
civilization in between.
View quotes by Oscar WildeThe market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of
civilization.
View quotes by Mikhail GorbachevTo be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of
civilization.
View quotes by Bertrand RussellCivilization and its discontents.
View quotes by Joan RiviereThe whole history of
civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards.
View quotes by Walter BagehotThe degree of
civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.
View quotes by Fedor DostoevskyCivilization is the process of reducing the infinite to the finite.
View quotes by Oliver Wendell HolmesCivilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them.
View quotes by Alfred North WhiteheadCivilization exists precisely so that there may be no masses but rather men alert enough never to constitute masses.
View quotes by Georges BernanosInventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it
civilization.
View quotes by Ambrose BierceWe are all afraid for our confidence, for the future, for the world. That is the nature of the human imagination. Yet every man, every
civilization, has gone forward because of its engagement with what it has set itself to do.
View quotes by Jacob BronowskiOur
civilization survives in the complacency of cowardly or malignant minds - a sacrifice to the vanity of aging adolescents. In 1953, excess is always a comfort, and sometimes a career.
View quotes by Albert CamusI had faith in Israel before it was established, I have in it now. I believe it has a glorious future before it - not just another sovereign nation, but as an embodiment of the great ideals of our
civilization.
View quotes by Harry S TrumanCivilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbour.
View quotes by Arnold ToynbeeBooks are the carriers of
civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.
View quotes by Barbara TuchmanWe've arranged a
civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology.
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