Quotes on civilization

A Healed Femur Is the Earliest Sign of True Civilization

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Our civilization has decided, and very justly decided, that determining the guilt or innocence of men is a thing too important to be trusted to trained men…. When it wants a library catalogued, or the solar system discovered, or any trifle of that kind, it uses up its specialists. But when it wishes anything done which is really serious, it collects twelve of the ordinary men standing round.

Topics: civilization, decided, determining

“Our civilization has decided, and very justly decided, that determining the guilt or innocence of men is a thing too important to be trusted to trained men…. When it wants a library catalogued, or the solar system discovered, or any trifle of that kind, it uses up its specialists. But when it wishes anything done which is really serious, it collects twelve of the ordinary men standing round.”

Topics: civilization, decided, determining

“Give me a wildness whose glance no civilization can endure.”

Henry David Thoreau

Topics: civilization, endure, forgive

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