Addiction Quote by Michael Carter

“[He] embodies this tension between civilization and its discontents, between the longing for a rational and cultured life and the bad luck and regrets…

— Daniel Menaker

“Civilization is always threatened from below, by patterns of belief and emotion that may once have been useful to our ancestors, but that are…

— Roger Scruton

“The cool contemplation of other people's suffering while one exhibits polished manners in a society that is deemed civil is only a shade less…

— Stjepan Mestrovic

“Contrary to nature’s rule of “survival of the fittest,” we humans measure civilization by how we respond to the most vulnerable and the suffering.”

— Philip Yancey

“Moribund cultures are fertile fields for fearful, fatalistic worldviews.”

— Vishal Mangalwadi

“For over twenty-five centuries we’ve been bearing the weight of superb and heterogeneous civilizations, all from outside, none made by ourselves, none that we…

— Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa

“There are millions of people who believe themselves “doomed” to poverty and failure, because of some strange force over which they believe they have…

— Napoleon Hill

“In much of urban and Western civilization today, with no proper tragic sense of life, we try to believe that it is all upward…

— Richard Rohr

“Most of the suffering in the world could be avoided if people choose to do good.”

— Wayne Gerard Trotman

“We nurture our own being by respecting all people and consciously working to mitigate the pain of the world.”

— Kilroy J. Oldster

“A civilization has the ethics it can afford. We”

— Larry Niven