Civilization Quote by Toba Beta Download Open image ““Poets write beautiful words to describe savagery-wrapped civilization nowadays.”” — Toba Beta ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Civilization Poetry Savagery
“There are horrible events going on all over the world. Human beings are really fucking up. Poets, we can’t just write poems. We have… — Jeremiah Walton Copy Share Image
“Poets are never happy with the things that are happening in our world.” — Avijeet Das Copy Share Image
“Too much war, hatred and fear in the world. Desperately needed: More art, love and poetry.” — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
“Poets aren't poets because of the way they write, they are poets because of the way they see the world.” — Brandon Gene Petit Copy Share Image
“Poetry is a life-cherishing force. For poems are not words, after all, but fires for the cold, ropes let down to the lost, something… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
“For what was civilization but the intellect’s ascendancy out of the doldrums of necessity (shelter, sustenance and survival) into the ether of the finely… — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
“i see poets riding the red winds unchecked by the borders of time, wandering with light feet over the land mines and trip wires,… — Peter Standish Evans Copy Share Image
“Poetry is a life-cherishing force. For poems are not words, after all, but fires for the cold, ropes let down to the lost, something… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
“You poets are accustomed to finding words for everything beautiful and you don’t even grant that people have hearts if they are less talkative… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“When you get lost in a really strange place, nothing is more comforting than found your friend whom you trust and can show the… — Toba Beta Copy Share Image
“Human race had never planned to show up in this universe. I wonder whether current human efforts are relevant to its sustainability.” — Toba Beta Copy Share Image
“People tend to resist a change into something new and different. But after it's succeded, they easily say that the change is a must.” — Toba Beta Copy Share Image
“The more you know, the less you understand. That's so cliche'. Wanna know the scary version? The more you know, the more fuckups you… — Toba Beta 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
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
Coal lay in ledges under the ground since the Flood, until a laborer with pick and windlass brings it to the surface. We may… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
