“ In the early twelfth century century the Virgin had been the supreme protectress of civilisation. She had taught a race of tough and ruthless barbarians the virtues of tenderness and compassion. The g… Kenneth Clark
“ That’s the vicious truth doctor. For me and persons like me, we are experiencing a divorce from our own individual self by sensing our sensations, emotions, behaviors as not belonging to the same pers… Neda Aria
“ Even if we're among the lucky few who benefit from civilization, we find ourselves curiously unsatisfied, plagued by stress, worry, and conflict... Like the addict who believes against all evidence th… Michael Carter
“ Sadism ... is a massive cultural fact that appeared precisely at the end of the eighteenth century and that constitutes one of the greatest conversions of the occidental imagination ... madness of des… Michel Foucault
“ Empathy is a big part of Sparkleponies, because it’s also my belief (as a history and political science major) that societies that don’t practice rational empathy inevitably collapse – either by fomen… Chris Kluwe
“ Without wonder, there's no progress. Nothing gets done, nobody goes anywhere. If you don't exercise your capacity for wonder... well, use it or lose it. A civilization without wonder is a civilization… Brian Hodge
“ Looking at him she felt she knew what the people of antiquity had been like. Thirty centuries or more were effaced, and there he was, the alert and predatory sub-human, further from what she believed… Paul Bowles
“ London was but a foretaste of this nomadic civilization which is altering human nature so profoundly, and throws upon personal relations a stress greater than they have ever borne before. Under cosmop… E.M. Forster
“ He says that there can be no high civilization without enslavement of the masses, either nominal or real. There must, he says, be a lower class, given up to physical toil and confined to an animal nat… Harriet Beecher Stowe
“ Every single empire in its official discourse has said that it is not like all the others, that its circumstances are special, that it has a mission to enlighten, civilize, bring order and democracy,… Edward Said
“ The capitalists are the brains of civilization, because they supply the entire fabric of which all education, enlightenment and human progress consists. Napoleon Hill
“ It ain't technology that enhances the civilization..but the way mankind perceives nature from all standpoints. Toba Beta
“ The civilized man is technologically ahead of — intellectually behind — his time. Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“ The people who build high, strong fences are the ones who survive the best. You deny that reality only at the risk of being driven into the wilderness yourself. Haruki Murakami
“ Green meant water, green patches meant farmers and farmers meant agriculture. Agriculture meant food to eat and food to sell, which meant towns and transport. They had reached civilization. T.K. Naliaka
“ The smile is civilization’s finest adornment. It signifies the willpower and duty to fashion mankind’s coexistence as quietly and agreeably as possible so that it will always appear friendly. For it i… Iwan Goll
“ Super-eruption of mount Toba, 76,000 years ago had wiped out a previous great civilization on earth. Toba Beta
“ Then to give the kids a historical perspective, Chacko told them about the earth woman. He made them imagine that the earth - 4600 million years old - was a 46 year old woman- as old as Aleyamma teaac… Arundhati Roy
“ America's civilization perturbs the trajectories of all other civilizations just by existing. Walter A. McDougall
