#civilization

The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization. ↗

— Sigmund Freud

#before #civilization #gift #greatest #individual

The center of Western culture is Greece, and we have never lost our ties with the architectural concepts of that ancient civilization. ↗

— Stephen Gardiner

#architectural #center #civilization #concepts #culture

China is a civilization pretending to be a nation. ↗

— Michael Ledeen

#civilization #nation #pretending

New York... when civilization falls apart, remember, we were way ahead of you. ↗

— David Letterman

#apart #civilization #falls #new #new york

Seriously, 'Honey Boo Boo' is the decay of Western civilization. Just because so many people watch the show doesn't mean it's good. ↗

— Adam Levine

#boo #civilization #decay #good #honey

Women know what men have long forgotten. The ultimate economic and spiritual unit of any civilization is still the family. ↗

— Clare Boothe Luce

#civilization #economic #family #forgotten #know

Today's interpretations of religion are often backward and contradict the needs of civilization. ↗

— Naguib Mahfouz

#civilization #contradict #interpretations #needs #often

So long as the system of competition in the production and exchange of the means of life goes on, the degradation of the arts will go on; and if that system is to last for ever, then art is doomed, and will surely die; that is to say, civilization will die. ↗

— William Morris

#arts #civilization #competition #degradation #die

It's the Law of God that gave the stability to Christian civilization. ↗

— Randall Terry

#civilization #gave #god #law #stability

A civilization which has taken over the world cannot be said to be dying. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

#civilization #dying #over #said #taken