I don't think I can give you an answer. Oh, I could give you Freudian reasons with fancy talk, and that would be right as far as it went. But what you want are the reasons for the reasons, and I'm not able to give you those. Not for the others, anywa...
Our civilization is flinging itself to pieces. Stand back from the centrifuge.
It seems to me, Golan, that the advance of civilization is nothing but an exercise in the limiting of privacy.
Nobody minded what you did in bed or what you said about God, a very civilized attitude in 1948.
The age in which we live can only be characterized as one of barbarism. Our civilization is in the process not only of being militarized, but also being brutalized.
There was an age, however, when the transition from savagery to civilization, with all its impressive outward manifestations in art and architecture, took place for the first time.
We're a depraved civilization. All this technology, all the computer games and the iPhones... nobody will sit for art anymore. What a dismaying state of humanity.
But that's the whole aim of civilization: to make everything a source of enjoyment.
It ain't technology that enhances the civilization.. but the way mankind perceives nature from all standpoints.
It is a luxury to do something that serves no practical purpose: the luxury of civilization.
If youth were not ignorant and timid, civilization would be impossible.
A visitor from Mars could easily pick out the civilized nations. They have the best implements of war.
Civilization, to be worthy of the name, must afford other methods of settling human differences than those of blood letting.
The true civilization is where every man gives to every other every right that he claims for himself.
We all can't be Rich, but we can be civilized human beings to each other.
What I am more concerned about is whether our whole civilization will be around in the next 25 years.
Civilized nations build libraries; lands that have lost their soul close them down.
If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.
A nation which expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, expects that which never was and never will be.
Civilization did not come with fire. It came with the discovery of how to use fire to heat water.
In our rich consumers' civilization we spin cocoons around ourselves and get possessed by our possessions.
