Home > Topic > Any civilization
1 " The question is whether any civilization can wage relentless war on life without destroying itself, and without losing the right to be called civilized. "
― Rachel Carson
2 " When any civilization is dust and ashes," he said, " art is all that's left over. Images, words, music. Imaginative structures. Meaning—human meaning, that is—is defined by them. You have to admit that. "
3 " Yes. They are the words that finally turned me into the hermit I have now become. It was quite sudden. I saw them, and I knew what I had to do." The sign read:" Hold stick near center of its length. Moisten pointed end in mouth. Insert in tooth space, blunt end next to gum. Use gentle in-out motion." " It seemed to me," said Wonko the Sane, " that any civilization that had so far lost its head as to need to include a set of detailed instructions for use in a package of toothpicks, was no longer a civilization in which I could live and stay sane. "
4 " It seemed to me,' said Wonko the Sane, 'that any civilization that had so far lost its head as to need to include a set of detailed instructions for use in a package of toothpicks, was no longer a civilization in which I could live and stay sane. "
― Douglas Adams , So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #4)
5 " And it came to me as I stood on the desert sand, looking at the Great Pyramid, that what any civilization says about God tells us more about that civilization than it does about God. "
― Madeleine L'Engle , Glimpses of Grace: Daily Thoughts and Reflections
6 " A German immersed in any civilization different from his own loses a weight equivalent in volume to the amount of intelligence he displaces. "
7 " Women know what men have long forgotten. The ultimate economic and spiritual unit of any civilization is still the family. "
8 " One could surely argue that the Buddhist tradition, taken as a whole, represents the richest source of contemplative wisdom that any civilization has produced. "
9 " If any civilization is to survive, it is the morality of altruism that men have to reject. "
