#civil

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The brown paper bag is the only thing civilized man has produced that does not seem out of place in nature.


Tom Robbins


#nature #nature

A heart pulsating in harmony with the circulation of sap and the flow of rivers? A body with the rhythms of the earth in its movements? No. Instead: a mind, shut off from the oxygen of alert senses, that has wasted itself on 'treasons, stratagems and spoils'--of importance only within four walls. A tame animal--in whom the strength of the species has outspent itself, to no purpose.


Dag Hammarskjöld


#humans #nature #nature

The Bible tells us to be like God, and then on page after page it describes God as a mass murderer. This may be the single most important key to the political behavior of Western Civilization.


Robert Anton Wilson


#behavior #bible #civilization #describes #god

I have something to fight for and live for; that makes me a better killer. I've got what amounts to a religion now. It's learning how to breathe all over again. And how to lie in the sun getting a tan, letting the sun work into you. And how to hear music and how to read a book. What does your civilization offer?


Ray Bradbury


#fight-for #live-for #religion #sun #music

Neither Pagan nor Mahamedan nor Jew ought to be excluded from the civil rights of the Commonwealth because of his religion. -quoting John Locke's argument.


Thomas Jefferson


#religion #religion

A civilization, when the moment has come for crowds to acquire a high hand over it, is at the mercy of too many chances to endure for long. Could anything postpone for a while the hour of its ruin, it would be precisely the extreme instability of the opinions of crowds and their growing indifference and lack of respect for all general beliefs.


Gustave Le Bon


#crowds #decline #indifference #the-masses #respect

The European talks of progress because by the aid of a few scientific discoveries he has established a society which has mistaken comfort for civilisation.


Benjamin Disraeli


#comfort #materialism #progress #science #science

We seldom realize, for example that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given to us by our society.


Alan Wilson Watts


#culture #names #power-of-words #responsibility #wisdom

(When asked what he thought of Western civilization): 'I think it would be a good idea.


Mahatma Gandhi


#eastern-civilization #eastern-philosophy #society #western-civilization #western-philosophy

One has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.


Martin Luther King Jr.


#civil-disobedience #dissent #protest #law