The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization.
Sigmund FreudTag: individuality liberty civilization
It is impossible to overlook the extent to which civilization is built up upon a renunciation of instinct....
Sigmund FreudTag: civilization instinct
Poets write beautiful words to describe
savagery-wrapped civilization nowadays.
Tag: civilization savagery
You're obliged to pretend respect for people and institutions you find absurd. You live attached in a cowardly fashion to moral and social conventions you despise, condemn, and know lack all foundation. It is that permanent contradiction between your ideas and desires and all the dead formalities and vain pretenses of your civilization which makes you sad, troubled and unbalanced. In that intolerable conflict you lose all joy of life and feeling of personality, because at every moment they suppress and restrain and check the free play of your powers. That's the poisoned and mortal wound of the civilized world.
Octave MirbeauTag: life civilization
[T]he normal and the everyday are often amazingly unstoppable, and what is unimaginable is the cessation of them. The world is resilient, and, no matter what interruptions occur, people so badly want to return to their lives and get on with them. A veneer of civilization descends quickly, like a shining rain. Dust is settled.
Lorrie MooreTag: life civilization 9-11 disaster normality resiliency
The fiendlike skill we display in the invention of all manner of death-dealing engines, the vindictiveness with which we carry on our wars, and the misery and desolation that follow in their train, are enough of themselves to distinguish the white civilized man as the most ferocious animal on the face of the earth.
Herman MelvilleTag: war civilization violence white-people
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There is a great deal of ruin in a nation.
Adam SmithTag: civilization hope civilisation ruin decline nation
The more I see of what you call civilization, the more highly I think of what you call savagery!
Robert E. HowardTag: civilization barbarism savagery
it wont be long now it wont be long
man is making deserts of the earth
it wont be long now
before man will have used it up
so that nothing but ants
and centipedes and scorpions
can find a living on it
....
what man calls civilization
always results in deserts
....
men talk of money and industry
of hard times and recoveries
of finance and economics
but the ants wait and the scorpions wait
for while men talk they are making deserts all the time
getting the world ready for the conquering ant
drought and erosion and desert
because men cannot learn
....
it wont be long now it wont be long
till earth is barren as the moon
and sapless as a mumbled bone
Tag: man civilization earth ants deserts don-marquis scorpions
The collective consciousness of mankind defines the existence and sustainability of this civilization.
Toba BetaTag: consciousness civilization collective
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