Quotes of: Civilized Keyword

People quite often think of the question 'Are we alone in the universe?' in terms of other civilizations out there: life forms that have reached at least our level of technological development.

Dimitar Sasselov

Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.

Frank Lloyd Wright

The greatest advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science and literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government.

Milton Friedman

This kind of painting with its large frames is a bourgeois drawing-room art. It is an art dealer's art-and that came in after the civil wars following the French Revolution.

Edvard Munch

The two World Wars came in part, like much modern literature and art, because men, whose nature is to tire of everything in turn... tired of common sense and civilization.

F. L. Lucas

So long as the system of competition in the production and exchange of the means of life goes on, the degradation of the arts will go on; and if that system is to last for ever, then art is doomed, and will surely die; that is to say, civilization wi...

William Morris

Civilization has been an intermittent phenomenon; to this truth we have allowed ourselves to be blinded by the insolence of material success.

Ideas Have Consequences

They believe civilization weakens natural selection. They do nature’s work so that we do not become a soft race.

Red Rising

[sic] his reaction was a sign of civilization. Nobody reaches for a gun anymore, just for his lawyer.

Manhattan In Reverse

These latter institutions [the civil service, trade unions, media of all kinds], notably of course television, but more subtly the written press, are quite spectacular powers of unreason and ignorance.

The Meaning of Sarkozy

He'd watched the world change around him, civilizations rise and fall, and although he could have anything, anyone, he wanted her.

Night Child

The human civilization has gone extremely so far; that in return, we have lost the line between stupidity and spirituality.

LOVE, HATRED AND MADNESS

Poets write beautiful words to describe savagery-wrapped civilization nowadays.

My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut

Super-eruption of mount Toba, 76,000 years ago had wiped out a previous great civilization on earth.

My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut

Mankind soon will be forced to utilize a kind of technology that's still rejected by current civilization.

My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut

a single generation enamoured of foreign ways is almost enough in history to risk the whole continuity of civilization and learning.

Myths of the Hindus & Buddhists

I am torn between the freedom of this adventure and the benefits of civilization despite its constraints.

The Secret Mandarin

Katey's the hottest bookworm you'll ever meet. If you took all the books that she's read and piled them in a stack, you could climb to the Milky Way.

Rules of Civility

I found myself intent on keeping the memories of the year to myself. [...] I didn't want to share them. Because I didn't want to dilute them

Rules of Civility

That's the problem with being born in New York, the old newsman observed a little sadly. You've got no New York to run away to.

Rules of Civility

That's how quickly New York City comes about - like a weather wane - or the head of a cobra. Time tells which.

Rules of Civility