Birth Quote by Jacques Ellul

Civilization is sterilization.

— Aldous Huxley

Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them.

— Alfred North Whitehead

Modern technology has become a total phenomenon for civilization, the defining force of a new social order in which efficiency is no longer an…

— Jacques Ellul

The process by which civilization, as an abstract entity distinct from the societies in which it is embodied, dies or is reborn is a…

— Carroll Quigley

It may seem impossible to imagine that a technologically advanced society could choose, in essence, to destroy itself, but that is what we are…

— Elizabeth Kolbert

Technical civilization has made a great error in not suppressing death, the only human reality still intact

— Jacques Ellul

Each civilization has its own kind of pestilence and can control it only by reforming itself.

— Rene Dubos

Civilization is a disease which is almost invariably fatal.

— William Ralph Inge

“To effectively contain a civilization’s development and disarm it across such a long span of time, there is only one way: kill its science.”…

— Liu Cixin

Today, it is more important than ever to raise human consciousness, so that technology becomes a means of empowerment, not destruction.

— Jaggi Vasudev

Technology is the means by which we have decommissioned natural selection and are seizing control. We are no longer to be victims of some…

— Jason Silva

All that is great in man comes through work; and civilization is its product.

— Samuel Smiles