Quotes of: Civilized-world Keyword

The earth is a fickle place for all life, not least the human project of civilization.

James Howard Kunstler

The civilizing process has increased the distance between behavior and the impulse life of the animal body.

Shoshana Zuboff

Scientists are the true driving force of civilization.

James Burke

George Bush doesn't represent any civilization!

George Galloway

A new civilization was not to be improvised by a single mind.

John Lothrop Motley

Peace on earth would mean the end of civilization as we know it.

Joseph Heller

Civilization is unbearable, but it is less unbearable at the top.

Timothy Leary

If any civilization is to survive, it is the morality of altruism that men have to reject.

Ayn Rand

When men can no longer be theists, they must, if they are civilized, become humanists.

Walter Lippmann

The Internet does not have a reputation as being a particularly civilized place.

Anita Borg

Christianity is the enemy of liberty and civilization.

August Bebel

Increased means and increased leisure are the two civilizers of man.

Benjamin Disraeli

Civilization exists by geologic consent, subject to change without notice.

Will Durant

Civilization is like a thin layer of ice upon a deep ocean of chaos and darkness.

Werner Herzog

I have and I will always work to promote a civil public discourse.

Bob Etheridge

Knowing how things work is the basis for appreciation, and is thus a source of civilized delight.

William Safire

I thought it such a shame that our culture had not devised a way to defang old age. A sophisticated civilization wouldn't ridicule senility, it would elevate it, worship it, wouldn't it? We would train ourselves to see poetry in the nonsense of demen...

The Coffins of Little Hope

Japhy was considered an eccentric around the campus, which is the usual thing for campuses and college people to think whenever a real man appears on the scene - colleges being nothing but grooming schools for the middleclass non-identity which usual...

The Dharma Bums

When all this is over, people will try to blame the Germans alone, and the Germans will try to blame the Nazis alone, and the Nazis will try to blame Hitler alone. They will make him bear the sins of the world. But it's not true. You suspected what w...

The Dream of Scipio

Manlius ... took care in his invitations, actively sought to exclude from his circle crude and vulgar men like Caius Valerius. But they were all around; it was Manlius who lived in a dream world, and his bubble of civility was becoming smaller and sm...

The Dream of Scipio

Observe the difference between your attitude to illusions and mine. You have to defend the religious illusion with all your might. If it becomes discredited - and indeed the threat to it is great enough - then your world collapses. There is nothing l...

The Future of an Illusion (The Standard Edition)