Civilized society Quote by Ernest Becker

“Civilized" society is a hopeful belief and protest that science, money and goods make man count for more than any other animal. In this sense everything that man does is religious and heroic, and yet in danger of being fictitious and fallible,” quote by Ernest Becker — Download Open image

““Civilized" society is a hopeful belief and protest that science, money and goods make man count for more than any other animal. In this sense everything that man does is religious and heroic, and yet in danger of being fictitious and fallible,””

Ernest Becker

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“What does it mean to be a self-conscious animal? The idea is ludicrous, if it is not monstrous. It means to know that one is food for worms. This is the terror: to have emerged from nothing, to have a name, consciousness of self, deep inner feelings, an excruciating inner yearning for life and self-expression and with all this yet…

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“the characteristics the modern mind prides itself on are precisely those of madness.”

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Relationship is thus always slavery of a kind, which leaves a residue of guilt.

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“Understanding this, Rank could take a great step beyond Freud. Freud thought that modern man’s moral dependence on another was a result of the…

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“The world of human aspiration is largely fictitious and if we do not understand this we understand nothing about man.”

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“If the partner becomes God he can just as easily become the Devil; the reason is not far to seek. For one thing, one becomes bound to the object in dependency. One needs it for self-justification. . . . [O]ne's self-development is restricted by the object, absorbed by it. It is too narrow a fetishization of meaning, and one comes…

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That country [Carthage] was rapidly sinking into the state of barbarism from whence it had been raised by the Phoenician colonies and Roman laws;…

Edward Gibbon

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Our guiding principle was that design is neither an intellectual nor a material affair, but simply an integral part of the stuff of life,…

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“Science lacks something very important that religion provides: a moral code. Survival of the fittest is a scientific fact, but it is a cruel…

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The practice of executing such offenders is a relic of the past and is inconsistent with evolving standards of decency in a civilized society.

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Democratic socialism means, that in a democratic, civilized society, the wealthiest people and the largest corporations must pay their fair share of taxes.

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I am for a system of universal health care where every American has health care as a fundamental right because I think that's where…

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Kindness and compassion towards all living things is a mark of a civilized society. Conversely, cruelty, whether it is directed against human beings or…

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“Good sex is the basis of any truly civilized society.”

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“Before our white brothers came to civilize us we had no jails. Therefore we had no criminals. You can't have criminals without a jail. We had no locks or keys, and so we had no thieves. If a man was so poor that he had no horse, tipi or blanket, someone gave him these things. We were too uncivilized to…

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I feel we all have the obligation, myself. I want to live in a more humane, civilized society, and I feel like the only way we're going to achieve that is if we all take it upon ourselves. I just wish we could be a more caring society. I feel like we're social Darwinists who believe that everyone has to…

Natalie Merchant

Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another.

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There is scarcely room for doubt that something in the psychological relation of a mother-in-law to a son-in-law breeds hostility between them and makes it hard for them to live together. But the fact that in civilized societies mothers-in-law are such a favourite subject for jokes seems to me to suggest that the emotional relation involved includes sharply contrasted components.…

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