Civilization Quote by Mokokoma Mokhonoana Download Open image ““Civilization is the commercialization of survival.”” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Civilization Commercialized Culture Employees Employers Employment Job Money Survival Work
“Humanity has been institutionalized and we are all the products of commercial and institutional life.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
“Often the idea of survival is mentioned in relation to capitalism, as in the phrase ‘economic survival’ or the thought ‘I need to earn… — Jacob Wren Copy Share Image
“Civilization is but a thin veneer stretched across the passions of the human heart. And civilization doesn't just happen; we have to make it… — Bill Moyers Copy Share Image
“We survive. But when survival is the only goal, what do the survivors become? This” — Tad Williams Copy Share Image
“For my community, our vocations start with survival. The world was not built for us, though it was built on the backs of our… — Patrick B. Reyes Copy Share Image
If civilization is to survive, it must live on the interest, not the capital, of nature. — Ronald Wright Copy Share Image
“What is the point of having a civilization, if we do not practice being civilized!” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Civilization is in fact the longest story of all. Civilization can persist through a series of economies.” — Fernand Braudel Copy Share Image
“Salesmanship is usually the art of making it the prospect’s problem, the salesperson’s need or desire to earn money.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“Arguments led by subjectivity are a waste of time. And, if they take place online, add to that, a waste of one’s keyboard.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“A car is one of the most interesting inventions, but driving is one of the most boring activities.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“Dating is a man-made ideology: if having a lover was a prerequisite to living, one would either be in a relationship, or, six feet… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“Work is a vehicle with which man chases some fleeting destination called a full tummy.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“A phone call should be a convenience to the caller, not an inconvenience to the called.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“Employment is an employee’s kissing of an employer’s ass. A salary is the employer’s pretense to be cleaning his ass.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“*Nothing is free* asserts two things. Both assertions are true.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“For their never-ending endeavours to obtain or retain wealth, countries desperately need companies, because they—unlike most human beings—have the means of production, and human… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“Some of our friends are our friends only because we used to be friends.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“*You only get one chance to make a first impression.* Ah, whatever!!! Who said you get three chances to make the second impression?!!” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana 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