Quotes on civilization

When tillage begins, other arts follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of human civilization.
Webster, Daniel

civilization

The skylines lit up at dead of night, the air-conditioning systems cooling empty hotels in the desert, and artificial light in the middle of the day all have something both demented and admirable about them the mindless luxury of a rich civilization, and yet of a civilization perhaps as scared to see the lights go out as was the hunter in his primitive night.
Baudrillard, Jean

civilization

Private opinion is weak, but public opinion is almost omnipotent.
Beecher, Henry Ward

civilization community decisions

We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.
Einstein, Albert

civilization environment

Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless.
B.F.Skinner

civilization

We pass through this world but once. Few tragedies can be more extensive than the stunting of life, few injustices deeper than the denial of an opportunity to strive or even to hope, by a limit imposed from without, but falsely identified as lying within.
Gould, Stephen Jay

civilization

Is man's civilization only a wrappage, through which the savage nature of him can still burst, infernal as ever?
Carlyle, Thomas

civilization

We never really grow up, we only learn how to act in public.
White, Bryan

civilization

Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.
Confucius

civilization simplicity

The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.
Freud, Sigmund

civilization

When you can't do something truly useful, you tend to vent the pent up energy in something useless but available, like snappy dressing.
Bujold, Lois McMaster

civilization clothing

Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct them, their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and unpleasant ceremonies, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills.
Voltaire

animal civilization

The dying process begins the minute we are born, but it accelerates during dinner parties.
Matthau, Carol

civilization parties

Civilization is a stream with banks. The stream is sometimes filled with blood from people killing, stealing, shouting and doing the things historians usually record, while on the banks, unnoticed, people build homes, make love, raise children, sing song.
Durant, Will

banks civilization

Civilization... wrecks the planet from seafloor to stratosphere.
Bach, Richard

civilization environment

Civilizations die from suicide, not by murder.
Author, Unknown

suicide civilization

We should distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
Thoreau, Henry David

civilization

The white American man makes the white American woman maybe not superfluous but just a little kind of decoration. Not really important to turning around the wheels of the state. Well the black American woman has never been able to feel that way. No black American man at any time in our history in the United States has been able to feel that he didn't need that black woman right against him, shoulder to shoulder - in that cotton field, on the auction block, in the ghetto, wherever.
Angelou, Maya