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#civilization

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #civilization




Civilization is a hopeless race to discover remedies for the evils it produces.


Jean-Jacques Rousseau


#civilization

All of us have to be prevaricators, hypocrites, and liars every day of our lives; otherwise the social structure would fall into pieces the first day. We must act in one another's presence just as we must wear clothes. It is for the best


O. Henry


#hypocrisy #liars #hypocrisy

The global industrial economy is the engine for massive environmental degradation and massive human (and nonhuman) impoverishment.


Derrick Jensen


#entropy #environmental-degradation #global-industrial-economy #impoverishment #economy

We are like ignorant shepherds living on a site where great civilizations once flourished. The shepherds play with the fragments that pop up to the surface, having no notion of the beautiful structures of which they were once a part.


Allan Bloom


#civilizations #flourished #fragments #great #having

Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos.


Will Durant


#chaos #civilization #dies #grows #liberty

All over the world the wildlife that I write about is in grave danger. It is being exterminated by what we call the progress of civilization.


Gerald Durrell


#being #call #civilization #danger #exterminated

The destiny of world civilization depends upon providing a decent standard of living for all mankind.


Norman Borlaug


#decent #decent standard #depends #destiny #living

What civilization is, is 6 billion people trying to make themselves happy by standing on each other's shoulders and kicking each other's teeth in. It's not a pleasant situation.


Terence McKenna


#culture #life #terence-mckenna #life

Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.


Ayn Rand


#men

My characters are more like men than these real men are, see. They're rough and rude, they got hands and they got bellies. They hate and they lust; break the skin of civilization and you find the ape, roaring and red-handed.


Robert E. Howard


#civilization #men






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