Category: Civilization Quotes SMS
Civilization Quotes SMS
What we call progress is the exchange
What we call progress is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance. ~Henry Havelock…
Civilization is a movement and not condition
Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor. ~Arnold…
Civilization wrecks the planet from seafloor to
Civilization… wrecks the planet from seafloor to stratosphere. ~Richard Bach
And the wind shall say 34here were
And the wind shall say "Here were decent godless people; Their only monument the asphalt…
Barbarism is needed every four or five
Barbarism is needed every four or five hundred years to bring the world back to…
It is impossible to overlook the extent
It is impossible to overlook the extent to which civilization is built upon a renunciation…
The dying process begins the minute we
The dying process begins the minute we are born, but it accelerates during dinner parties. …
It must be admitted that there is
It must be admitted that there is a degree of instability which is inconsistent with…
Flowers dont open to the clock but
Flowers don’t open to the clock but to the sunshine spontaneous; for modern humans that…
Culture is roughly anything we do and
Culture is roughly anything we do and the monkeys don’t. ~Lord Raglan
There are many humorous things in the
There are many humorous things in the world, among them the white man’s notion that…
Where is the life we have lost
Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have…
I stood on a tower in the
I stood on a tower in the wet, And New Year and Old Year met,…
Civilization is the distance man has placed
Civilization is the distance man has placed between himself and his excreta. ~Brian AldissPCR
A living civilization creates a dying builds
A living civilization creates; a dying, builds museums. ~Martin H. FischerFFM
The gross heathenism of civilization has generally
The gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature, and poetry, and all that is…
Progress is mans ability to complicate simplicity
Progress is man’s ability to complicate simplicity. ~Thor Heyerdahl, Fatu-Hiva
Man despite his artistic pretensions sophistication
Man – despite his artistic pretensions, his sophistication, and his many accomplishments – owes his…
Animals have these advantages over man they
Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without…
Human history becomes more and a race
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe. ~H.G. Wells, The…
When you cant do something truly useful
When you can’t do something truly useful, you tend to vent the pent up energy…
People dont like the true and simple
People don’t like the true and simple; they like fairy tales and humbug. ~Edmond and…
We are at the very beginning of
We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not…
We should distrust any enterprise that requires
We should distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes. ~Henry David Thoreau, Walden
We never really grow up we only
We never really grow up, we only learn how to act in public. ~Bryan White
Civilization is hideously fragile theres not much
Civilization is hideously fragile… there’s not much between us and the Horrors underneath, just about…
Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary
Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessaries. ~Mark Twain, quoted in More Maxims of…
The progress of civilization corresponds with the
Historically speaking, therefore, [T]he progress of civilization corresponds with the spread of general nausea. ~Edgar…