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Abraham Joshua Heschel
Our concern is not how to worship in the catacombs but how to remain human in the skyscrapers.
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Albert Einstein
We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.
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Aldous Huxley
Every civilization is, among other things, an arrangement for domesticating the passions and setting them to do useful work.
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Alfred North Whitehead
It must be admitted that there is a degree of instability which is inconsistent with civilization. But, on the whole, the great ages have been unstable ages.
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Alfred Tennyson
I stood on a tower in the wet,And New Year and Old Year met.
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Arnold Toynbee
Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor.
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Author Unknown
Man - despite his artistic pretensions, his sophistication, and his many accomplishments - owes his existence to a six inch layer of topsoil and the fact that it rains.
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B.F.Skinner
Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless.
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Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams
Codi: Gives you the willies, doesn't it? The thought of raising kids in a place where the front yard ends in a two-hundred-foot drop?
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Bennett Cerf
Good manners: The noise you don't make when you're eating soup.
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Bertrand Russell
I've made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility.
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Bertrand Russell
Every advance in civilization has been denounced as unnatural while it was recent.
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Brian Aldiss
Civilization is the distance man has placed between himself and his excreta.
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Bryan White
We never really grow up, we only learn how to act in public.
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Carol Matthau
The dying process begins the minute we are born, but it accelerates during dinner parties.
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Christina Gerogiannis
Society is a made-up formula of what we are supposed to be, kept alive by those who believe in it.... I laugh in the ugly face of society, with all its fabricated dimensions.
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Clara Lucas Balfour
Mankind's struggle upwards, in which millions are trampled to death, that thousands may mount on their bodies.
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Confucius
Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.
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