“ A person who knows nothing about literature may be an ignoramus, but many people don't mind being that. Northrop Frye
“ The most obvious and the most distinctive features of the History of Civilisation, during the last fifty years, is the wonderful increase of industrial production by the application of machinery, the… Thomas Henry Huxley
“ The true mark of English conversation is not being able to tell when you've been insulted. I think the more sophisticated society becomes, the more it hides behind the masks it manufactures. Christopher Fowler
“ What happened? It took Gibbon six volumes to describe the decline and fall of the Roman Empire, so I shan’t embark on that. But thinking about this almost incredible episode does tell one something ab… Kenneth Clark
“ Some Christian lawyers—some eminent and stupid judges—have said and still say, that the Ten Commandments are the foundation of all law.Nothing could be more absurd. Long before these commandments were… Robert G. Ingersoll
“ [O]ne person's 'barbarian' is another person's 'just doing what everybody else is doing. Susan Sontag
“ We are living in an increasingly feminized society. Some people view that as an increasingly civilized society, but it has left our boys with deep desires for honor but few outlets for displaying it a… Cindy Rollins
“ Sending out the Disciples Luke 10 1: AFTER THESE THINGS THE LORD APPOINTED OTHER SEVENTY DISCIPLES AND HE SENT THEM TWO AND TWO BEFORE HIS FACE INTO EVERY CITY AND PLACE; WHITHER HE HIMSELF WOULD COME… Swami Dhyan Giten
“ Morals are nothing but a civilized society’s attempt to tame some beast called man. Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“ Passion and courtesy are two polar opposite traits that serve to balance each other into a full-blooded whole.Without socialization, passion is a crude barbarian, and without passion, the elegant and… Vera Nazarian
“ I've often heard people say, “Your country is beautiful, a virtual paradise.” When will the people of Indonesia be as beautiful as their land, with a civilization and culture that contributes to the g… Pramoedya Ananta Toer
“ Advanced technology does not always promise a more intelligent civilization. On the contrary, the more the common people rely on technology to do their thinking and solving for them, the less practice… Criss Jami
“ If you are trully in a place that is way from the noise of civilization,you can actually experience what real slience is about.It is filled with sounds of nature.There is a musicality,a harmony to it.… K.J. Kilton
“ Whatever name civilizations give to the arrangement where a man lives with a woman, it is always better to call it a marriage. Girdhar Joshi
“ Thievery is for the civilized. It is what laws protect us from. I am a wild beast of no laws and no society. I want no laws. I want no more civilized things. J.M. McDermott
“ Now that I have definitely begun to live I find myself more and more convinced that civilization with its trappings and artificialities is not so good as nature. H.S. Ede
“ A heart pulsating in harmony with the circulation of sap and the flow of rivers? A body with the rhythms of the earth in its movements? No. Instead: a mind, shut off from the oxygen of alert senses, t… Dag Hammarskjold
“ If this is called civilization, then I am afraid humanity is no more civilized than the Tyrannosaurus Rex. Abhijit Naskar
