Bureaucracy Quote by Simone Weil

Specialization is the great evil of civilization.

— Wendell Berry

“Specialization is undeniably a powerful social and economic force. And yet it is also debilitating. It breeds helplessness, dependence, and ignorance and, eventually, it…

— Michael Pollan

Civilization is that mode of conduct which points out to man the path of duty.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Every civilization is, among other things, an arrangement for domesticating the passions and setting them to do useful work.

— Aldous Huxley

Civilization enables us constantly to profit from knowledge which we individually do not possess and because each individual's use of his particular knowledge may…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

Civilization consists in the multiplication and refinement of human wants.

— Robert Andrews Millikan

It is the high privilege and sacred duty of those now living to educate their successors and fit them, by intelligence and virtue, for…

— James A. Garfield

“People, not commercial organizations or chains of command, are what make great civilizations work. Every civilization depends upon the quality of the individuals it…

— Frank Herbert

Civilization means, above all, an unwillingness to inflict unnecessary pain ... those of us who heedlessly accept the commands of authority cannot yet claim…

— Anonymous

Every civilization depends on the quality of the individuals it produces. If you over-organize humans, over-legalize them, suppress their urge to greatness-they cannot work…

— Frank Herbert

The luxuries of civilization satisfy only those wants which they themselves create.

— Apsley Cherry-Garrard

Civilization may be said indeed to be the creation of its outlaws.

— James Joyce