Famous civilization quotations

   We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there are tens of thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on.
 ~ by Richard P. Feynman

   Evolution made civilization steward of this planet. A hundred thousand years later, the steward stood before evolution not helper but destroyer, not healer but parasite. So evolution withdrew its gift, passed civilization by, rescued the planet from intelligence and handed it to love.
 ~ by Richard Bach

Inspirational Sayings, Motivational Quotes, Wise Words, Witty Proverbs
   We should distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
 ~ by Henry David Thoreau, Walden

   K is for Kenghis Khan. He was a very nice person. History has no record of him. There is a moral in that, somewhere.
 ~ by Harlan Ellison, From A to Z in the Chocolate Alphabet

   The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.
 ~ by Sigmund Freud

   Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor.
 ~ by Arnold Toynbee

   The dying process begins the minute we are born, but it accelerates during dinner parties.
 ~ by Carol Matthau

   Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.
 ~ by Confucius

   A living civilization creates; a dying, builds museums.
 ~ by Martin H. Fischer

   Good manners: The noise you don't make when you're eating soup.
 ~ by Bennett Cerf

   It must be admitted that there is a degree of instability which is inconsistent with civilization. But, on the whole, the great ages have been unstable ages.
 ~ by Alfred North Whitehead

   Our concern is not how to worship in the catacombs but how to remain human in the skyscrapers.
 ~ by Abraham Joshua Heschel

   Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless.
 ~ by B.F.Skinner

   When you can't do something truly useful, you tend to vent the pent up energy in something useless but available, like snappy dressing.
 ~ by Lois McMaster Bujold

   We never really grow up, we only learn how to act in public.
 ~ by Bryan White

   Culture is roughly anything we do and the monkeys don't.
 ~ by Lord Raglan

   We pass through this world but once. Few tragedies can be more extensive than the stunting of life, few injustices deeper than the denial of an opportunity to strive or even to hope, by a limit imposed from without, but falsely identified as lying within.
 ~ by Stephen Jay Gould, The Mismeasure of Man

   Civilization is what makes you sick.
 ~ by Paul Gauguin

   Progress might have been all right once, but it's gone on too long.
 ~ by Ogden Nash

   It is impossible to overlook the extent to which civilization is built upon a renunciation of instinct.
 ~ by Sigmund Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents

   We are born princes and the civilizing process makes us frogs.
 ~ by Syrus

   Civilization... wrecks the planet from seafloor to stratosphere.
 ~ by Richard Bach

   There are many humorous things in the world, among them the white man's notion that he is less savage than the other savages.
 ~ by Mark Twain, Following the Equator, 1897

   We are so clothed in rationalization and dissemblance that we can recognize but dimly the deep primal impulses that motivate us.
 ~ by James Ramsey Ullman

   Civilization: a thin veneer over barbarianism.
 ~ by John M. Shanahan, The Most Brilliant Thoughts of All Time (In Two Lines or Less)



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