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The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwardsCollection: Civilization
This knowledge, the knowledge that the physical well-being of the citizen is an important foundation for all of the activities of the nation, is as old as Western civilization itself.Collection: Civilization
I ate civilization. It poisoned me; I was defiled. And then," he added in a lower tone, "I ate my own wickedness.Collection: Civilization
The destruction that barbarians leave behind has a grim fascination, doesn't it? We're reminded how thin is the veneer of civilization.Collection: Civilization
The sentence is the greatest human invention of civilization.Collection: Civilization
I am not sure whether ethical absolutes exist. But I am sure that we have to act as if they existed or civilization perishes.Collection: Civilization
If youth were not ignorant and timid, civilization would be impossible.Collection: Civilization
The spirit of the place is a strange thing. Our mechanical age tries to override it. But it does not succeed. In the end the strange, sinister spirit of the place, so diverse and adverse in differing places, will smash our mechanical oneness into smithereens.Collection: Civilization
We don't have the right to tell less fortunate disadvantaged people that they can't come to the USA and get what we have. You see, that's all predicated on the fact that what we have is simply luck and it isn't fair that the rest of the world doesn't have it. The rest of the world could have it. Human civilization has been around however many number of years you want to add up.Collection: Civilization
Our assignment was to topple this prudish, judgmental civilization. And it worked.Collection: Civilization
It was a truism that all civilizations were basically neurotic until they made contact with everybody else and found their place within the ever-changing meta-civilisation of other beings, because, until then, during the stage when they honestly believed they might be entirely alone in existence, all solo societies were possessed of both an inflated sense of their own importance and a kind of existential terror at the sheer scale and apparent emptiness of the universe.Collection: Civilization
Illusions mistaken for truth are the pavement under our feet. They are what we call civilization.Collection: Civilization
We all live under the constant threat of our own annihilation. Only by the most outrageous violation of ourselves have we achieved our capacity to live in relative adjustment to a civilization apparently driven to its own destruction.Collection: Civilization
The legalized liquor business is the tragedy of our civilization. Alcohol is the greatest and most blighting curse of our modern civilization. The liquor seller is simply and only a privileged malefactor - a criminal.Collection: Civilization
If education is beaten by training, civilization dies.Collection: Civilization
Every civilization that has ever existed has ultimately collapsed.Collection: Civilization
Barbarism recommences by the excess of civilization.Collection: Civilization
So as long as you can forget your body you are happy and the moment you begin to be aware of your body, you are wretched. So if civilization is any good, it has to help us forget our bodies, and then time passes happily without our knowing it. Help us get rid of our bodies altogether.Collection: Civilization
Their whole life depends on spending money, and now they’ve got none to spend. That’s our civilization and our education: bring up the masses to depend entirely on spending money, and then the money gives out.Collection: Civilization
Because our civilization is woven of so many diverse strands, the ideas which any one group accepts will be found to contain numerous contradictions.Collection: Civilization
If we were to place our power at the service of our imaginations rather than our primate politics we would create a civilization worthy of the name.Collection: Civilization
I have tried to answer the question which sent me to Samoa: Are the disturbances which vex our adolescents due to the nature of adolescence itself or to the civilization? Under different conditions does adolescence present a different picture?Collection: Civilization
The further our civilization advances upon its present lines so much the cheaper sort of thing does "fame" become, especially of the literary sort. This species of "fame" a waggish acquaintance says can be manufactured to order, and sometimes is so manufactured.Collection: Civilization
How idiotic civilization is! Why be given a body if you have to keep it shut up in a case like a rare, rare fiddle?Collection: Civilization
Every civilization finds it necessary to negotiate compromises with its own values.Collection: Civilization
The Anglo-Saxon hive have extirpated Paganism from the greater part of the North American continent; but with it they have likewise extirpated the greater portion of the Red race. Civilization is gradually sweeping from the earth the lingering vestiges of Paganism, and at the same time the shrinking forms of its unhappy worshippers.Collection: Civilization
the position of women, that sad and well-nigh universal blot on civilizations, was never far from her mind.Collection: Civilization
Speech is civilization itself. The word, even the most contradictions word, preserves contact - it is silence which isolates.Collection: Civilization
Surely that little pseudo-gothic church on Broadway, hidden amongst the skyscrapers, is symbolic of the age! On the whole face of the globe the civilization that has conquered it has failed to build a temple or a tomb.Collection: Civilization
The slaves of developed industrial civilization are sublimated slaves.Collection: Civilization
what about Christianity? Are we right in the face of so long a record of its poverty in international achievement, to keep invoking it as a standard, almost synonymous with civilization?Collection: Civilization
It seems to me far more likely that an advanced civilization would communicate inter dimensionally and telepathically.Collection: Civilization
Learning is nothing without cultivated manners, but when the two are combined in a woman, you have one of the most exquisite products of civilization.Collection: Civilization
So the conclusion that I reach, visa vie the individual and civilization, is this: Culture is not our friend. Culture is not your friend. It's not my friend. It's a very uncomfortable set of accommodations that have been hammered out over time for the convenience of institutions.Collection: Civilization
And what we're looking toward is a moment when the artificial language structures which bind us within the notion of ourselves are dissolved in the presence of the realization that we are a part of nature. And when that happens, the childhood of our species will pass away, and we will stand tremulously on the brink of really the first moment of coherent human civilization.Collection: Civilization
Were civilization itself to be estimated by some of its results, it would seem perhaps better for what we call the barbarous part of the world to remain unchanged.Collection: Civilization
The main thing going on in the 20th century is a dissolving of boundaries, all the boundaries that historical civilization put in place.Collection: Civilization
Since the main problem that American, the Afro- Americans have is a lack of cultural identity. It is necessary to teach [people] that they had some type of identity, culture, civilization before they were brought here.Collection: Civilization
The things I believed in dont exist any more. It's foolish to pretend that they do. Western Civilization finally went up in smoke in the chimneys at Dachau but I was too infatuated to see it. I see it now.Collection: Civilization
Civilization begins with distillation.Collection: Civilization
Economics must not be relegated to classrooms and statistical offices and must not be left to esoteric circles. It is the philosophy of human life and action and concerns everybody and everything. It is the pith of civilization and of man’s human existence.Collection: Civilization
Where there are humans, You’ll find flies, And Buddhas.Collection: Civilization