We wear clothes, and speak, and create civilizations, and believe we are more than wolves. But inside us there is a word we cannot pronounce and that is who we are.
Civilizations rise and fall on confidence. America had figured out a way to borrow money to manufacture it.
There can be no understanding without that sympathy which puts us, through the imagination, and (another's) situation.
In his old life, the answer would have been easy: He'd have just put a gun to Vin's head and dragged the fucker to the altar. Now? He needed to be a little more civilized.
Civilization depends on continually making the effort, of never giving in. It needs to be cared for by men of goodwill, protected from the dark.
The brown paper bag is the only thing civilized man has produced that does not seem out of place in nature.
It's called civilization. Women invented it, and every time you men blow it all to bits, we just invent it again.
Is that the end... of all the races and civilizations, and the dreams of the world, to be able to leave a few stones buried beneath the sands, to tell the Dark that we were here?
The subtle and deadly change of heart that might occur in you would be involved with the realization that a civilization is not destroyed by wicked people; it is not necessary that people be wicked but only that they be spineless.
By reading older books we get a taste of the conversation of Heaven.
Don't blame me. Tell your mom to move closer. Tell her there's this new club called civilization and you guys should join.
Yes, I'm a man and everyone knows men are great hairy beasts scarcely tamed by civilization -Jermyn, Duke of Northcliff to Amy, Princess Beaumontaigne
Poverty does not belong in civilized human society. Its proper place is in a museum. That's where it will be.
I ate civilization. It poisoned me; I was defiled. And then," he added in a lower tone, "I ate my own wickedness.
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However life started, once established, it persisted for over 3.5 billion years and evolved from microbial slime to the sophistication of human civilization.
We are therefore blessed with powerful minds yet at the same time cursed, not only to die, but to know that we must.
There is no truth that does not ultimately rest upon what is evident to us in our own experience.
The bond that attaches us to the life outside ourselves is the same bond that holds us to our own life.
