“ We, ironically known as the civilizados - in practically everything that matters they're a damned sight more civilized than we are - bring them so-called progress, which harms them, so-called change,… Alistair MacLean
“ Violence is not necessary to destroy a civilization. Each civilization dies fromindifference toward the unique values which created it. Nicolás Gómez Dávila
“ Since the days of cave civilization to the modern day microprocessor civilization, the relation between man and woman remained the same. Then it was at a carnal level. And, today it is still at carnal… Girdhar Joshi
“ ... man by nature is not a wild or unsocial creature, neither was he born so, but makes himself what he naturally is not, by vicious habit; and that again on the other side, he is civilized and grows… Plutarch
“ The fact that Man is Nature’s perverse instantiation can only lead to the appalling conclusion that Man, too, is some kind of an artificial intelligence Stephan Attia
“ On why 300 years separates the first use of glass lenses in spectacles and their use in a telescope: “In many cases there are times when an invention is technologically possible – and in which it may… James Burke
“ What was invented with civilization was the ability of some to deny sensuality to others. Richard Manning
“ Famine was the mark of a maturing agricultural society, the very badge of civilization. Richard Manning
“ These wonderful narrations inspired me with strange feelings. Was man, indeed, at once so powerful, so virtuous and magnificent, yet so vicious and base? He appeared at one time a mere scion of the ev… Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
“ A chair is the first thing you need when you don’t really need anything, and is therefore a peculiarly compelling symbol of civilization. For it is civilization, not survival, that requires design. Ralph Caplan
“ The flaw in being civilized is that it permit’s the uncivilized among us to perpetrate horrific crimes against us in the name of freedom and equality.Foreword 'RHG M.J. Croan
“ The flush toilet, more than any single invention, has 'civilized' us in a way that religion and law could never accomplish. Thomas Lynch
“ The more I see of what you call civilization, the more highly I think of what you call savagery! Robert E. Howard
“ Once, headed uptown on the 9 train, I noticed a sign posted by the Metropolitan Transit Authority advising subway riders who might become ill in the train. The sign asked that the suddenly infirm info… Sarah Vowell
“ It is impossible to overlook the extent to which civilization is built up upon a renunciation of instinct.... Sigmund Freud
“ It's funny how people think that they have "a right to life". Now isn't that the biggest load you ever heard? You don't have a right to shit your pants on Sunday. Let's take it back to the jungle. Whe… Henry Rollins
“ We could not be fulfilled if we weren't inauthentic some of the time—inauthentic, that is, in relation to such things as our passing desires to throttle our children, poison our spouse, or end our mar… Alain de Botton
