In his heart, mankind has never been able to evolve past the tribal stage. Civilization does not take the place of tribalism, but if it is well designed, it can control it.
Civilization Quotes
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 songs, write poetry and even whittle statues. The story of civilization is the story of what happened […]
The degree of civilization which a people has reached, no doubt, is marked by their anxiety to do as they would be done by.
Say what you will against civilization, it has at least got rid of whiskers, the vermiform appendix, and the Ten Commandments.
Life is livable because we know that whatever we go most of the people we meet will be restrained in their actions towards us by an almost instinctive network of taboos.
In the old days of barbarism, the people fought with hatchets. Civilized men buried the hatchet, and now fight with gossip.
All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution.
All civilization comes through literature now, especially in our country. A Greek got his civilization by talking and looking, and in some measure a Parisisan may still do it. But we, who must live remote from history and monuments, we must read or we must barbarise.
The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.
The civilization of man has increased just to the same extent that religious power has decreased. The intellectual advancement of man depends upon how often he can exchange an old superstition for a new truth. The church never enabled a human being to make even one of these exchanges; on the contrary, all her power […]
