Civilization Quote by Malcolm Muggeridge Download Open image “Civilization - a heap of rubble scavenged by scrawny English Lit. vultures.” — Malcolm Muggeridge ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Civilization Culture English Lit Lit Rubble Vulture
The civilization you sit in ... is now obvious in crisis, perhaps death pangs, twisting grotesquely like a dying animal, swirling down the garbage… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
“It is the obscene horror, the dry, fucked-out aspect of things which makes this crazy civilization look like a crater. It is this great… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“Closing the dictionary and opening any history of civilizations, the curious reader might consider the characteristics of societies in decay. At the meeting point… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
“What will be lost, and what saved, of our civilization probably lies beyond our powers to decide. No human group has ever figured out… — Thomas Cahill 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
“In Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations, geomorphologist David Montgomery offers numerous cautionary tales of kingdoms, cultures, and empires that squandered their soil and found… — Judith D. Schwartz Copy Share Image
I'm not trying to write a bleak and blistering screed against American civilization. I'm writing something that I hope is fun and satirical and… — Mark Russell Copy Share Image
First in violence, deepest in dirt, lawless, unlovely, ill-smelling, irreverent, new; an overgrown gawk of a - village, the "tough" among cities, a spectacle… — Lincoln Steffens Copy Share Image
The destruction that barbarians leave behind has a grim fascination, doesn't it? We're reminded how thin is the veneer of civilization. — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
As I drew a still fresher soil about the rows with my hoe, I disturbed the ashes of unchronicled nations who in primeval years… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Civilization is a stream with banks. The stream is sometimes filled with blood from people killing, stealing, shouting and doing the things historians usually… — William James Will Durant Copy Share Image
It is only possible to succeed at second-rate pursuitslikebecoming a millionaire or a prime minister, winning a war, seducing beautiful women, flying thought the… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
The orgasm has replaced the Cross as the focus of longing and the image of fulfillment. — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
Posterity will surely be amazed, and I hope vastly amused, that such slipshod and unconvincing theorizing should have so easily captivated twentieth-century minds and… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
In politics, as in womanizing, failure is decisive. It sheds its retrospective gloom on earlier endeavor which at the time seemed full of promise. — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
Marx and Freud are the two great destroyers of Christian civilization, the first replacing the gospel of love by the gospel of hate, the… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
I wouldn't have said that Anthony Eden was equipped by nature to deal with the situation in the world today. I would have said… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
God, stay with me, let no word cross my lips that is not your word, no thoughts enter my mind that are not your… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
This life in us; however low it flickers or fiercely burns, is still a divine flame which no man dare presume to put out,… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
As Man alone, Jesus could not have saved us; As God alone, He would not; Made flesh, He could and did. — Malcolm Muggeridge 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
“The voice in the head that never stops speaking becomes a civilization that is obsessed with form and therefore knows nothing of the most… — Eckhart Tolle 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
