Quotes about Civilization

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We are born princes and the civilizing process makes us frogs. — Eric Berne
No one is safe from nature's savagery,not even the innocent. Only beauty is consistent. Gabrielle envisions a time when — Anne Rice, The Vampire Lestat
It's funny how people think that they have "a right to life". Now isn't that the biggest load you ever heard? You don't — Henry Rollins, Black Coffee Blues
Without the library, you have no civilization. — Ray Bradbury
People have separated from each other with walls of concrete that blocked the roads to connection and love. and Nature h — Yasunari Kawabata
It is impossible to overlook the extent to which civilization is built up upon a renunciation of instinct.... — Sigmund Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents
We look to Scotland for all our ideas of civilisation. — Voltaire
[Referring to the imprisonment of Oscar Wilde] ... Will civilization never reach humane ideals? Will men always punish m — Frank Harris, Oscar Wilde
Once, headed uptown on the 9 train, I noticed a sign posted by the Metropolitan Transit Authority advising subway riders — Sarah Vowell
The more I see of what you call civilization, the more highly I think of what you call savagery! — Robert E. Howard, King Kull
The flush toilet, more than any single invention, has 'civilized' us in a way that religion and law could never accompli — Thomas Lynch, The Undertaking: Life Studies from the Dismal Trade
You're obliged to pretend respect for people and institutions you find absurd. You live attached in a cowardly fashion t — Octave Mirbeau
Let the war turn off the families. Our civilization is flinging itself to pieces. Stand back from the centrifuge. — Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
The global industrial economy is the engine for massive environmental degradation and massive human (and nonhuman) impov — Derrick Jensen, Endgame, Vol. 1: The Problem of Civilization
The flaw in being civilized is that it permit’s the uncivilized among us to perpetrate horrific crimes against us in the — M.J. Croan, Right Hand Up to God: No More Will Die
Poets write beautiful words to describe savagery-wrapped civilization nowadays. — Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
A chair is the first thing you need when you don’t really need anything, and is therefore a peculiarly compelling symbol — Ralph Caplan
If it is asserted that civilization is a real advance in the condition of man — and I think that it is, though only the — Henry David Thoreau, Walden
Civilization depends on continually making the effort, of never giving in. It needs to be cared for by men of goodwill, — Iain Pears, The Dream of Scipio
Tea is one of the main stays of civilization in this country. — George Orwell, Smothered Under Journalism: 1946