Civilization Quote by Ashok K. Banker Download Open image “Alone we are savages, together we are civilization” — Ashok K. Banker ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Civilization Culture Savages Together
Civilization is the way one's own people live. Savagery is the way foreigners live. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The more I see of what you call civilization, the more highly I think of what you call savagery! — Robert E. Howard Copy Share Image
Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
We are all civilized people, wich means that we are all savages at heart but observing a few amenities of civilized behaviour. — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
For how many thousands of years now have we humans been what we insist on calling "civilized?" And yet, in total contradiction, we also… — Walter Cronkite Copy Share Image
Civilization is a failure. We need to think what we can do together in love and peace. — Serj Tankian Copy Share Image
Civilization is the art of living together with people not entirely like oneself. — Helen Cam Copy Share Image
When people get together, we are capable of the most beautiful, amazing things. But we are also capable of genocide. — Jordan Peele Copy Share Image
Savagery is our primal nature and in it we return via the brain's degenerative diseases. — Mariana Fulger Copy Share Image
“human capacity for arrogance was only exceeded by its capacity for ignorance.” — Ashok K. Banker Copy Share Image
“I'm just one molecule of plastic in the composition of a little pin on a very large map” — Ashok K. Banker Copy Share Image
What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions. Life is plurality, death is uniformity. By suppressing differences and pecularities, by eliminating different civilizations and cultures, progress weakens life and favors death. The ideal of a single civilization for everyone, implicit in the cult of progress and technique, impoverishes and mutilates us. Every view of… — Octavio Paz Copy Share
Sentiment is the mightiest force in civilization; not sentimentality, but sentiment. Women will bring this into politics. Home, sweet home, is as powerful on… — Judith Ellen Foster Copy Share Image
Violence is not necessary to destroy a civilization. Each civilization dies from indifference toward the unique values which created it. — Nicolas Gomez Davila Copy Share Image
We released 400,000 classified documents, the most extraordinary history of a war to ever have been released in our civilization. Those documents cover 109,000… — Julian Assange Copy Share Image
Wine is one of the most civilized things in the world and one of the most natural things of the world that has been… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Whenever we touch nature we get clean. People who have got dirty through too much civilization take a walk in the woods, or a… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
The invention of gunpowder and the constant improvement of firearms are enough in themselves to show that the advance of civilization has done nothing… — Carl von Clausewitz Copy Share Image
Another success is the post-office, with its educating energy augmented by cheapness and guarded by a certain religious sentimentin mankind; so that the power of a wafer or a drop of wax or gluten to guard a letter, as it flies over sea over land and comes to its address as if a battalion of artillery brought it, I look… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share
“The mission is, not to replace old world mindlessness with new world mindlessness, but to put an end to all forms of brainless authoritarianism.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
We are somehow the children of the planet, we are somehow its finest hour; we bind time, we bind the past, we anticipate the future - we are going hyper-spatial; we are claiming a whole new dimension for biology that it never claimed before. We are actually becoming a fourth-dimensional kind of creature. Our future is somehow with us, as… — Terence McKenna Copy Share
Our civilization, bequeathed to us by fierce adventurers, eaters of meat and hunters, is so full of hurry and combat, so busy about many… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
Coal lay in ledges under the ground since the Flood, until a laborer with pick and windlass brings it to the surface. We may… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image