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Quotes about civilization
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Each new generation is a fresh invasion of savages. (Chaplin Ralph)
Is civilization only a higher form of idolatry, that man should bow down to a flesh-brush, to flannels, to baths, diet, exercise, and air? (Chaplin Ralph)
The skylines lit up at dead of night, the air-conditioning systems cooling empty hotels in the desert and artificial light in the middle of the day all have something both demented and admirable about them. The mindless luxury of a rich civilization, and yet of a civilization perhaps as scared to see the lights go out as was the hunter in his primitive night. (Chaplin Ralph)
We are born princes and the civilizing process makes us frogs. (Chaplin Ralph)
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The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion. (Chaplin Ralph)
People sometimes tell me that they prefer barbarism to civilization. I doubt if they have given it a long enough trial. Like the people of Alexandria, they are bored by civilization; but all the evidence suggests that the boredom of barbarism is infinitely greater. (Chaplin Ralph)
The civilized are those who get more out of life than the uncivilized, and for this we are not likely to be forgiven. (Chaplin Ralph)
The test of civilization is its estimate of women. (Chaplin Ralph)
Increased means and increased leisure are the two civilizers of man. (Chaplin Ralph)
Civilization is a stream with banks. The stream is sometimes filled with blood from people killing, stealing, shouting and doing the things historians usually record, while on the banks, unnoticed, people build homes, make love, raise children, sing songs, write poetry and even whittle statues. The story of civilization is the story of what happened on the banks. Historians are pessimists because they ignore the banks for the river. (Chaplin Ralph)
I think there are only three things America will be known for 2, 000 years from now when they study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music and baseball. (Chaplin Ralph)
Is civilization only a higher form of idolatry, that man should bow down to a flesh-brush, to flannels, to baths, diet, exercise, and air? (Chaplin Ralph)
All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution. (Chaplin Ralph)
As long as our civilization is essentially one of property, of fences, of exclusiveness, it will be mocked by delusions. Our riches will leave us sick; there will be bitterness in our laughter; and our wine will burn our mouth. Only that good profits, which we can taste with all doors open, and which serves all men. (Chaplin Ralph)
Sunday is the core of our civilization, dedicated to thought and reverence. (Chaplin Ralph)
Civilization depends on morality. (Chaplin Ralph)
Civilization is a process in the service of Eros, whose purpose is to combine single human individuals, and after that families, then races, peoples and nations, into one great unity, the unity of mankind. Why this has to happen, we do not know; the work of Eros is precisely this. (Chaplin Ralph)
Civilization...is a matter of imponderables, of delight in the thins of the mind, of love of beauty, of honor, grace, courtesy, delicate feeling. Where imponderables, are things of first importance, there is the height of civilization, and, if at the same time, the power of art exists unimpaired, human life has reached a level seldom attained and very seldom surpassed. (Chaplin Ralph)
The ultimate tendency of civilization is towards barbarism. (Chaplin Ralph)
Civilization today reminds me of an ape with a blowtorch playing in a room full of dynamite. It looks like the monkeys are about to operate the zoo, and the inmates are taking over the asylum. (Chaplin Ralph)
The path of civilization is paved with tin cans. (Chaplin Ralph)
One might enumerate the items of high civilization, as it exists in other countries, which are absent from the texture of American life, until it should become a wonder to know what was left. (Chaplin Ralph)
Every new stroke of civilization has cost the lives of countless brave men, who have fallen defeated by the dragon, in their efforts to win the apples of the Hesperides, or the fleece of gold. Fallen in their efforts to overcome the old, half sordid savagery of the lower stages of creation, and win the next stage. (Chaplin Ralph)
Civilization is just a slow process of learning to be kind. (Chaplin Ralph)
Civilization is drugs, alcohol, engines of war, prostitution, machines and machine slaves, low wages, bad food, bad taste, prisons, reformatories, lunatic asylums, divorce, perversion, brutal sports, suicides, infanticide, cinema, quackery, demagogy, strikes, lockouts, revolutions, putsches, colonization, electric chairs, guillotines, sabotage, floods, famine, disease, gangsters, money barons, horse racing, fashion shows, poodle dogs, chow dogs, Siamese cats, condoms, peccaries, syphilis, gonorrhea, insanity, neuroses, etc., etc. (Chaplin Ralph)
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