Civilization Quotes

The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself.

If language is lost, humanity is lost. If writing is lost, certain kinds of civilization and society are lost, but many other kinds remain - and there is no reason to think that those alternatives are inferior.

No one can predict the future exactly, but we know two things: It’s going to be different, and it must be rooted in today’s world.

Society destroys your individuality, your soul.

I am torn between the freedom of this adventure and the benefits of civilization despite its constraints.

Civilization is the commercialization of survival.

Spiritual activity, education, civilization, culture, the idea are all vague, indefinite concepts, under the banner of which it is quite convenient to use words that have a still less clear meaning and therefore can easily be plugged into any theory.

All civilized wo/men are prostitutes: Some sell what's between their legs; the rest sell what's between their ears.

My sense of the holy is bound up with the hope that some day my remote descendants will live in a global civilization in which love is pretty much the only law.

The employed are punished by having to do what they do not love. The self-employed are punished by the opposite.

The more civilized people are, the more honorable working hard is to them. As a result, the more civilized we get, the less we live.

There is no way I can avoid thinking about the kind of world I belong to. The abuse of utopias disfigures everything.

I am beginning to understand," said the little prince. "There is a flower... I think that she has tamed me...

Civilization is vastly overrated.

When humor goes, there goes civilization.

When people stargazing, they stare at stars,
and many other things which they've already
presumed commonly and universally as stars.

People usually feel funny, smile and laugh when I tell them
about my strong belief in the very existence of prehistoric
advanced technology and great civilizations of wilier races.
I just can't wait to see their faces at time the truth is revealed.

Science is a trigger of changes of civilization.
Religion is the failsafe of science performance.

You're captives of a civilizational system that more or less compels you to go on destroying the world in order to live. … You are captives - and you have made a captive of the world itself. That's what's at stake, isn't it? - your captivity and the captivity of the world.

The premise of the Taker story is 'the world belongs to man'. … The premise of the Leaver story is 'man belongs to the world'.