Dean Inge Quotes

Civilization does not have to perish. The brutes are winning only by default.

History shows us that other highly developed forms of civilization have collapsed. Who knows whether the same fate does not await our own?

Cities are the greatest creations of humanity.

Civilization is what makes you sick.

The overpopulation of the earth The destruction of our natural habitat The rat race of humanity against itself The disappearance of all strong emotions and passions through pampering Genetic deterioration through deficient selection pressure on development and the lack of preservation of the norms of social behavior The breakdown of tradition; and The increasing susceptibility of humans to indoctrination

Civilization is going down the drain, and the sooner it does, the better.

I love talking about space, our society, and what the future holds for us as a civilization.

Civilization is vastly overrated.

A civilization is not destroyed by wicked people; it is not necessary that people be wicked but only that they be spineless.

That which we call civilization is merely the accumulated debris of a chilling number of bad nights.

To accept civilization as it is practically means accepting decay.

The foundation for a new era was laid but yesterday. The human was given its first chance to become truly civilised when it took courage to question all things and made 'knowledge and understanding' the foundation upon which to create a more reasonable and sensible society of human beings.

Civilization is not a burden. It is an opportunity.

No civilization, including Plato's, has ever been destroyed because its citizens learned too much.

What does civilization mean to you, and what would its ending bring to the world?

Civilization is a natural and inevitable consequence - whether good or evil I am not prepared to state.

It has been said that civilization is twenty-four hours and two meals away from barbarism.

The goal of every culture is to decay through over-civilization; the factors of decadence, -- luxury, skepticism, weariness and superstition, -- are constant. The civilization of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.

Barbarism is not the inheritance of our pre-history. It is the companion that dogs our every step.

In civilization, as in a southern latitude, man degenerates at length, and yields to the incursion of more northern tribes.

for civilization to survive, the human race has to remain civilized.

Western civilization was declining too fast for comfort, but too slowly to be very exciting.

civilization is a transient sickness.

Ghostly above us in lamplight the towers gleam ... and after a while they will fall to dust and rain; or else we will tear them down with impatient hands; and hew rock out of the earth, and build them again.

All progressions from a higher to a lower order are marked by ruins and mystery and a residue of nameless rage.