Technology is not the measure of a great civilization.
When civilization ends, it ends fast.
Civilization starts when we stop running. When we live together. When we stop sending people away from the world and from each other.
Civilisation has always depended on a measure of elective ignorance.
When a civilization acts in opposition to its instincts, it may be under the influence of something, or someone, new.
We’re going out there, we’re taking back what’s ours. Civilization. We will rise again. Only this time we won’t be eating each other.
I thought we’d be killing each other by now, like civilized human beings.[to Augustin]
Eating far too much food for too much money is the essence of civilization.
All civilizations are born of violence.
