#civil

I am told that I had a bad temper, and remember being banished to the back hall until civility returned. ↗

— Paul D. Boyer

#back #bad #banished #being #civility

The civilized world needs to think about a decision when single politicians are not allowed to stay in power. ↗

— Vladimir Zhirinovsky

#allowed #civilized #civilized world #decision #needs

The civilizing process has increased the distance between behavior and the impulse life of the animal body. ↗

— Shoshana Zuboff

#behavior #between #body #civilizing #distance

To see ten thousand animals untamed and not branded with the symbols of human commerce is like scaling an unconquered mountain for the first time, or like finding a forest without roads or footpaths, or the blemish of an axe. You know then what you had always been told -- that the world once lived and grew without adding machines and newsprint and brick-walled streets and the tyranny of clocks. ↗

— Beryl Markham

#civilization #nature #wild-herds #nature

There is in every village a torch - the teacher: and an extinguisher - the clergyman. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#good #madness-and-civilization #religion #religion

A blow that would kill a civilized man soon heals on a savage. The higher we go in the scale of life, the greater is the capacity for suffering. ↗

— Dale Breckenridge Carnegie

#savages #suffering-life #art

The European talks of progress because by the aid of a few scientific discoveries he has established a society which has mistaken comfort for civilisation. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

#comfort #materialism #progress #science #science

We seldom realize, for example that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given to us by our society. ↗

— Alan Wilson Watts

#culture #names #power-of-words #responsibility #wisdom

(When asked what he thought of Western civilization): 'I think it would be a good idea. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#eastern-civilization #eastern-philosophy #society #western-civilization #western-philosophy

One has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws. ↗

— Martin Luther King Jr.

#civil-disobedience #dissent #protest #law