Civilization Quote by Jacques Ellul

The modern tradition of equating death with an ensuing nothingness can be abandoned. For there is no reason to believe that human death severs…

— Larry Dossey

Technique has taken over the whole of civilization. Death, procreation, birth all submit to technical efficiency and systemization.

— Jacques Ellul

Technology as the knack of eliminating the world as resistance,... the technologist's worldlessness.... My mistake lay in the factthat we technologists try to live…

— Max Frisch

I think that people would like to, at all times, reject death and disease with technology.

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

If it turns out that physical death truly results in the absolute cessation of consciousness, then it would seem to me that in the…

— Derek R. Audette

When the survival strategy of a civilization is invalidated, in all of human history none have ever turned back from the brink.

— Daniel Suarez

Civilization is a disease which is almost invariably fatal.

— William Ralph Inge

Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe.

— Alan Watts

Civilization is the art of creating useless needs.

— Leo Errera

I do not believe that civilizations have to die because civilization is not an organism. It is a product of wills.

— Arnold J. Toynbee

Without technology humanity has no future, but we have to be careful that we don’t become so mechanised that we lose our human feelings.

— Dalai Lama

Science and technology have amplified the effects of the dysfunction of the human mind in its unawakened state to such a degree that humanity,…

— Eckhart Tolle