Civilization Quote by Bryant McGill Download Open image ““There is nothing more savage than modern civilization.”” — Bryant McGill ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Civilization Culture Moderism Nothingness Savagery
“Humanity's savageness is what makes it civilized. Technology, trade, computers, space travel. All are products of competition and conflict.” — Adam Burch Copy Share Image
“What is the point of having a civilization, if we do not practice being civilized!” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Savages were savages, but what could one expect of civilized men who plotted massacre?” — Carol Ryrie Brink Copy Share Image
“The conventional wisdom says that societies seem more civilized than they actually are.” — Dr. Ashok Anand Copy Share Image
“I don't feel that we were savages. We were in a savage land that made us hard, but we were not savages. Savages today… — Alma Hogan Snell Copy Share Image
“The more civilized people are, the more honorable working hard is to them. As a result, the more civilized we get, the less we… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“Not a savage—a barbarian. Savages know nothing of civilization. We barbarians know what civilization is, though we may have a low opinion of it."… — Mary Jo Putney Copy Share Image
“Mankind is close to savagery and must live by rules. If not, we would sink into our own animal nature and perish.” — Noah Gordon Copy Share Image
“Civilization is but a thin veneer stretched across the passions of the human heart. And civilization doesn't just happen; we have to make it… — Bill Moyers Copy Share Image
“Witnessing a selfless act brings tears to remind us how we should be treating others.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
“The teacher can only provide the lessons, but the student ultimately decides what to learn.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
“You have permission to walk away from anything that doesn't feel right. Trust your instincts and listen to your inner-voice — it's trying to… — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
“You cannot change another person's mind or educate them; this they must do themselves.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
“Countries, states, cities, corporations and laws are all words on paper.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
“We must remember that nature is the supreme cradle of life, and must be protected and treated with the highest respect and care.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
“The world is not fair, and often fools, cowards, liars and the selfish hide in high places. (p 57)” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
“Even discomfort or pain delivers awareness of life, and an opportunity for gratitude.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
“The secret to unseating great power, is not to move the other direction, but to compete directly against their goals.” — Bryant McGill 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… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
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… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“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… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
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
