Top 42 Quotes About Human Nature And Civilization

#1. Most of human history had been industry versus nature, with industry winning.

Joe Haldeman

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#2. In fact, you couldn't give me anything to make me go back to being a teenager. Never. No, I hated it.

J.K. Rowling

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#3. There will be those who will tell you that you can't make it because of how you look, because of the way you talk. We all have heard that - I almost listened.

Douglas Wilder

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#4. Where the human need for order meets
the human tendency to mayhem, where civilization runs smack against its discontents, you find friction, and a great deal of general wear and tear.

Ian McEwan

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#5. I came to see that man finds meaning in his existence only through the active demonstration of his human self, a cosmos comprising the entire constellation of life's factors: culture, civilization, tradition, history, ideals, facts, physical conditions, one's mental state, the ecology, and so on.

Pramoedya Ananta Toer

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#6. I think ... the history of civilization is an attempt to codify, classify and categorize aspects of human nature that hardly lend themselves to that process.

Tom Stoppard

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#7. That which lies before the human race is a constant struggle to maintain and improve, in opposition to State of Nature, the State of Art of an organized polity; in which, and by which, man may develop a worthy civilization

Thomas Huxley

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#8. What are you doing?" I ask Morpheus. "I've never seen anything so savage!" "'Savage'?" The green pig snorts an answer for him. "You act as if we're a bunch of animals.

A.G. Howard

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#9. In another age we mastered the physical ocean, thereby creating universal civilization; now we will master the psychological ocean, emotion, mother human nature, thereby creating intellectual civilization.

Fernando Pessoa

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#10. You only live once, and if something feels right to you and you want it, you should go after it.

Miranda Kenneally

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#11. We don't understand the power of nature and the world because we don't live with it. Our environment is designed to sustain us. We are the domestic pets of a human zoo called civilization.

Laurence Gonzales

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#12. It is essential that true joys be experienced, that the sunrise not leave us unmoved, for civilization depends on the true joys, all those that have nothing to do with money or affluence - nature, the arts, human love.

May Sarton

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#13. Yes, I have inherited the past because I have acknowledged it at last? And, now that I have come to understand it, I no longer need to look back.

Peter Ackroyd

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#14. Civilization largely consists in hiding human nature. When the barbarian learns to hide it we account him enlightened.

Mark Twain

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#15. At first it seems obvious, but the more you think about it the stranger the deductions from this axiom seem to become; in the end you cease to understand what is meant by it.

Bertrand Russell

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#16. unless an evil thought is born in a twisted mind, human nature is repelled by crime. However, civilization has given us needs, vices and artificial appetites which sometimes cause us to repress our good instincts and lead us to wrongdoing.

Alexandre Dumas

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#17. Human civilization is not something achieved against nature; it is rather the outcome of the working of the innate qualities of man.

Ludwig Von Mises

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#18. A civilization without retail bookstores is unimaginable. Like shrines and other sacred meeting places, bookstores are essential artifacts of human nature. The feel of a book taken from the shelf and held in the hand is a magical experience, linking writer to reader.

Jason Epstein

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#19. Sometimes doing the right thing was hard ... and potentially messy. But a good leader always did the right thing.

Shannon Hale

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#20. When individuals are established in universal consciousness, they live the scientific reality of the unity of life spontaneously in accord with all the laws of nature. This experience alone will transform our collective reality - our human civilization to one of unity, peace, and harmony.

John Hagelin

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#21. No one is without troubles, without personal hardships and genuine challenges. That fact may not be obvious because most people don't advertise their woes and heartaches. But nobody, not even the purest heart, escapes life without suffering battle scars.

Richelle E. Goodrich

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#22. In a decadent society people can slowly drift or slowly be drawn by the culture of commerce into yearning for violence. Maybe people have a deep congenital awareness that no civilization lasts forever, that the most peaceful prosperity will someday have to end, or maybe it's just human nature

Jonathan Franzen

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#23. Here is how I take the measure of my progress in life: I imagine myself as I was, back there in

Ta-Nehisi Coates

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#24. Civilization has provided no peace, no spectacle, no assurance to the human heart which can transcend the simple, ever-changing, matchless beauty and peace of the natural world

Harvey Broome

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#25. The human landscape of the New World shows a conquest of nature by an intelligence that does not love it.

Northrop Frye

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#26. Forget the lottery. Bet on yourself instead.

Brian Koslow

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#27. The greatest problem for the human species, the solution of which nature compels him to seek, is that of attaining a civil society which can administer justice universally.

Immanuel Kant

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#28. Humans are naturally social; civilization causes us to be antisocial.
From my next book: The Five Forgotten Truths

Kirk D. Sinclair

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#29. You think civilization is some horrible, polluting human invention that separates us from the state of nature. But civilization doesn't separate us from nature. Civilization protects us from nature.

CRICHTON Michael

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#30. Cities are more than the sum of their infrastructure. They transcend brick and mortar, concrete and steel. They're the vessels into which human knowledge is poured.

Rick Yancey

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#31. Civilization may progress, human nature will remain the same throughout all ages.

H. P. Blavatsky

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#32. Does anyone want to know the details of how a plasma cutter works?" Jin asked. Nobody raised their hands. "They're really cool," she said. Nobody raised their hands.

Missy Meyer

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#33. Men do not understand that because they unrestrictedly kill so many animals, they also must be slaughtered like animals in big wars. The reaction must be there. You are killing innocent cows and animals. Nature will take revenge. To kill cows means to end human civilization.

Anonymous

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#34. because women were also believed to be closer to the raw forces of nature than were males, controlling their power was, for the adult male, part of the larger project of creating human civilization itself.

Thomas Van Nortwick

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#35. Next time you try to do something and fail, and it really was partly in your control, be honest about
why you failed--but also, what you can do better in the future. It's easy to see that blaming
circumstance robs you of opportunities to learn.

Rohvannyn Shaw

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#36. We are all afraid for our confidence, for the future, for the world. That is the nature of the human imagination. Yet every man, every civilization, has gone forward because of its engagement with what it has set itself to do.

Jacob Bronowski

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#37. I'd be grateful if you'd say anything, true or not, because I ran out of ideas ... responsible or irresponsible, true or not, years ago. Stick your stainless steel spoon in this unhappy old man's brains Doctor ... and stir.

Kurt Vonnegut

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#38. The spiritual sense of our place in nature ... can be traced to the origins of human civilization ... The last vestige of organized goddess worship was eliminated by Christianity.

Al Gore

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#39. If this is called civilization, then I am afraid humanity is no more civilized than the Tyrannosaurus Rex.

Abhijit Naskar

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#40. I'm more into human nature than politics. But they're intertwined. Obviously, I live in civilization, so politics are part of my life.

Bill Callahan

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#41. It is so basic. A human being is an innocent part of nature. Our civilization has distorted this universal quality that allows us to feel at home in our skin. Other animals have coats that they accept, but the human race has yet to come to terms with being nude.

Ruth Bernhard

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#42. You want a place where you can say that this is your show that you invested in with other actors, but there's also that flexibility of being a recurring actor.

Gbenga Akinnagbe

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