Joe Rogan Quotes

More and more, as civilization develops, we find the primitive to be essential to us. We root into the primitive as a tree roots into the earth. If we cut off the roots, we lose the sap without which we can't progress or even survive. I don't believe our civilization can continue very long out of contact with the primitive.

The problems in our educational system are indissociable from broader malignant trends in our society, and they can't be solved by lots of testing and by punitive actions against schools that are not performing well.

That contagion idea is so relevant and shows how quickly civilization could self-destruct.

The black community has fallen into this horribly dysfunctional equilibrium.

Every high civilization decays by forgetting obvious things.

The problem isn’t with rock lyrics, it’s with the fabric of this society itself.

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.

Civilization is paralysis.

A civilization begins to decline the moment Life becomes its sole obsession.

I do think there are deep structural things that are wrong in the world.

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

That country [Carthage] was rapidly sinking into the state of barbarism from whence it had been raised by the Phoenician colonies and Roman laws; and every step of intestine discord was marked by some deplorable victory of savage man over civilized society.

But we have inherited a vast number of social ills which never came from Nature. They are the complicated products of all the tinkering, muddling, and blundering of social doctors in the past.

My theories explain, but cannot slow the decline of a great civilization. I set out to be a reformer, but only became the historian of decline.

The word civilization to my mind is coupled with death. When I use the word, I see civilization as a crippling, thwarting thing, a stultifying thing. For me it was always so. I don't believe in the golden ages, you see... civilization is the arteriosclerosis of culture.

In the zone of perdition where my youth went as if to complete its education, one would have said that the portents of an imminent collapse of the whole edifice of civilization had made an appointment.

The lunatic's visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact. Our civilization is founded on the shambles, and every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.

Love as a concrete foundation for an authentically functional civilization requires the around-the-clock labors of forgiveness. Without it, Love fails, Friendship fails, Intelligence fails, Humanity: fails.

Over-civilization and barbarism are within an inch of each other. And a mark of both is the power of medicine-men.

In a state of nature, the weakest go to the wall; in a state of over-refinement, both the weak and the strong go to the gutter.

The foundation of all civilization is loitering.

We are suffering from a kind of slow-motion barbarization from within.

No healthy civilization can ever be reared on a foundation of devitalized work.

[On golf:] One of the most distressing defects of civilization.

The sense of a long last night over civilization is back again.