A people are as healthy and confident as the stories they tell themselves. Sick storytellers can make nations sick. Without stories we would go mad. Life would lose it’s moorings or orientation... Stories can conquer fear, you know. They can make the heart larger.
Ben OkriMots clés stories civilization storytelling mythology
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And this also," said Marlow suddenly, "has been one of the dark places of the earth.
Joseph ConradMots clés civilization darkness
I think in our desire to create a better America,we have to have civilized debate in this country and not just yelling.
Craig FergusonMots clés civilization america debate improvement
Let us suppose we are confronted with a desperate thing – say Pimlico. If we think what is really best for Pimlico we shall find the thread of thought leads to the throne of the mystic and the arbitrary. It is not enough for a man to disapprove of Pimlico; in that case he will merely cut his throat or move to Chelsea. Nor, certainly, is it enough for a man to approve of Pimlico; for then it will remain Pimlico, which would be awful. The only way out of it seems to be for somebody to love Pimlico; to love it with a transcendental tie and without any earthly reason. If there arose a man who loved Pimlico, then Pimlico would rise into ivory towers and golden pinnacles… If men loved Pimlico as mothers love children, arbitrarily, because it is theirs, Pimlico in a year or two might be fairer than Florence. Some readers will say that this is mere fantasy. I answer that this is the actual history of mankind. This, as a fact, is how cities did grow great. Go back to the darkest roots of civilization and you will find them knotted round some sacred stone or encircling some sacred well. People first paid honour to a spot and afterwards gained glory for it. Men did not love Rome because she was great. She was great because they had loved her.
G.K. ChestertonMots clés love beauty history civilization
It seems to me that you can almost define civilization by saying it's people who are not willing to hurt other people because the other people are different.
Gene WolfeMots clés people civilization
The flush toilet, more than any single invention, has 'civilized' us in a way that religion and law could never accomplish.
Thomas LynchMots clés civilization civilized toilet
The function of the university is not simply to teach breadwinning, or to furnish teachers for the public schools, or to be a centre of polite society; it is, above all, to be the organ of that fine adjustment between real life and the growing knowledge of life, an adjustment which forms the secret of civilization.
W.E.B. Du BoisMots clés education civilization african-america
The brown paper bag is the only thing civilized man has produced that does not seem out of place in nature.
Tom RobbinsMots clés nature civilization
I believe empathy is the most essential quality of civilization.
Roger EbertMots clés empathy civilization
It is a science fact that some animals do dream.
It'll someday lead them to places better than zoo.
Mots clés civilization dream sign races
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