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Last updated on December 4, 2024.
I think almost everything about humans and human civilization is explained better by evolution than anything else.
It is insane that two men, sitting on opposite sides of the world, should be able to decide to bring an end to civilization.
It would be wryly interesting if in human history the cultivation of marijuana led generally to the invention of agriculture, and thereby to civilization.
Whoever uplifts civilization is rich though he die penniless, and future generations will erect his monument.
I've been asked about UFOs and I've said publicly I thought they were somebody else, some other civilization.
We cannot be sure that we ought not to regard the most criminal country as that which in some aspects possesses the highest civilization.
What I am more concerned about is whether our whole civilization will be around in the next 25 years.
What feminism calls patriarchy is simply civilization , an abstract system designed by men but augmented and now co-owned by women.
Civilization is a youth with a molotov cocktail in his hand. Culture is the Soviet tank or L.A. cop that guns him down.
No matter where we are or how advanced we think we are, there are elemental issues of our civilization that stories help us work through.
There is something silly about grown men and women striving to reduce their vision of themselves and of civilization to bean counting.
I have long been convinced that institutions purely democratic must, sooner or later, destroy liberty or civilization, or both.
I think fundamentalism is this radical attitude toward one's own identity and civilization as compared to other people's identities and cultures.
There cannot be perfect civilization until Man realizes that the rights of every living creature are as sacred as his own.
Of all the works of civilization that interfere with the natural water distribution system, irrigation has been by far the most pervasive and powerful.
The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.
The love of domination and an uncontrolled lust of arbitrary power have prevailed among all nations and perhaps in proportion to the degrees of civilization.
It is pretty well settled that the city is the Negro's great contribution to civilization, for it was in Africa where the first cities grew up.
Movies are to our civilization what dreams and ideals are to individual lives: They express the mystery and help define the nature of who we are and what we are becoming.
That amid our highest civilization men faint and die with want is not due to the niggardliness of nature, but to the injustice of man.
We're a planet of nearly six billion ninnies living in a civilization that was designed by a few thousand amazingly smart deviants.
As civilization grows more complex, it is simultaneously becoming increasingly interrelated. We are converging upon ourselves, and this is forcing us to relate.
Is man’s civilization only a wrappage, through which the savage nature of him can still burst, infernal as ever?
While the farmer holds the title to the land, actually, it belongs to all the people because civilization itself rests upon the soil.
The concept of conservation is a far truer sign of civilization than that spoilation of a continent which we once confused with progress.
This freedom of political discussion on the highest level is something which Western civilization has in common with that of classical antiquity, but with no other
The market came with the dawn of civilization and it is not an invention of capitalism. ... If it leads to improving the well-being of the people there is no contradiction with socialism.
Mankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell.
A writer is justly called 'universal' when he is understood within the limits of his civilization, though that be bounded by a country or an age.
In society at large, nerds are law-abiding, caring, fundamentally good folk who keep the wheels of civilization grinding.
Women's fight for equal rights is essentially a humanist and peaceful struggle for true democracy, and a higher form of civilization.
The refusal of the British and Russian peoples to accept what appeared to be inevitable defeat was the great factor in the salvage of our civilization.
I have increasingly, over the years, felt that religion today does our civilization more harm than good.
It is still an act of academic heresy to regard Egypt as the cradle of civilization and originator of Jewish and Christian religious traditions.
When I was young I used to read about the decline of Western civilization, and I decided it was something I would like to make a contribution to.
Everybody should be able to choose according to his own values and history, within a European civilization that we all belong to.
Culture is the tacit agreement to let the means of subsistence disappear behind the purpose of existence. Civilization is the subordination of the latter to the former.
The market came with the dawn of civilization and it is not an invention of capitalism. If it leads to improving the well-being of the people there is no contradiction with socialism.
Is a civilization worth the name, which requires, for its existence the very doubtful prop of a racial legislation and a lynch law?
The great question is, can war be outlawed from the world? If so, it would mark the greatest advance in civilization since the Sermon on the Mount.
Are we asserting the easy dominion of our civilization over all times and all places, as signs that we casually absorb as a form of loot?
You cannot organize civilization around the core of militarism and at the same time expect reason to control human destinies.
By challenging anthropocentricism and temporal provincialism, science fiction throws open the whole of civilization and its premises to constructive criticism.
Theory of the true civilization. It is not to be found in gas or steam or table turning. It consists in the diminution of the traces of original sin.
To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level.
It is an altogether wrong idea that the modern product of civilization is less susceptible to love. I sometimes think it is the other way.
The periods of unemployment accompanying depression in the business cycle . . . present a challenge to all our claims to progress, humanity, and civilization.
A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan.
The consensus is that climate change ranks along with nuclear warfare as the top two risks facing human civilization.
In the twenty-first century, the robot will take the place which slave labor occupied in ancient civilization.
In a culture that gives men irresponsible power and women powerless responsibility, the advancement of civilization cannot be a serious goal.
The bicameral mind with its controlling gods was evolved as a final stage of the evolution of language. And in this development lies the origin of civilization.
Capitalism inevitably and by virtue of the very logic of its civilization creates, educates and subsidizes a vested interest in social unrest.
The freedom enjoyed in Western society under the rule of law and constitutional government explains both the quality of its civilization and its wealth.
Women know what men have long forgotten. The ultimate economic and spiritual unit of any civilization is still the family.
Technical civilization has made a great error in not suppressing death, the only human reality still intact
No civilization is complete which does not include the dumb and defenseless of God's creatures within the sphere of charity and mercy.
This freedom of political discussion on the highest level is something which Western civilization has in common with that of classical antiquity, but with no other.
It was the Law of the Sea, they said. Civilization ends at the waterline. Beyond that, we all enter the food chain, and not always right at the top.
A high civilization is a pyramid: it can stand only on a broad base; its primary prerequisite is a strong and soundly consolidated mediocrity.
