{"quotes":[{"text":"To save our dying earth, any government which is not environmentalist must go because on earth there are thousands of governments but there in only one earth! Continuing with the eco-traitor stupid governments means an environmental suicide! Enemies of nature are real barbarians and there is no place for these savages in our civilisation!","author":"Mehmet Murat ildan","tags":["civilisation","earth","earth-day","earth-day","earth-day","eco-warior","enemies-of-nature","environment","environmental","environmental-conservation","environmental-problems","environmental-protection","environmental-values","environmentalism","environmentalist","governments","green-peace","ildan-wisdom","ildan-wise-sayings","ildan-words","mehmet-murat-ildan","mehmet-murat-ildan","nature","traitor","turkish-aphorisms","turkish-","turkish-literature","turkish-playwrights","turkish","turkish","turkish-sayings","turkish-thinkers","turkish-wisdom-words","turkish-writers"],"id":31267,"author_id":"Mehmet+Murat+ildan"},{"text":"The twins were too young to know that these were only history’s henchmen. Sent to square the books and collect the dues from those who broke its laws. Impelled by feelings that were primal yet paradoxically wholly impersonal. Feelings of contempt born of inchoate, unacknowledged fear—civilization’s fear of nature, men’s fear of women, power’s fear of powerlessness. Man’s subliminal urge to destroy what he could neither subdue nor deify.","author":"Arundhati Roy","tags":["civilisation","history","human-nature","psychology"],"id":43574,"author_id":"Arundhati+Roy"},{"text":"In every civilized society, there is an established institution put in place to design laws that make people live civilized and having rights and privileges as citizens of that nation.","author":"Sunday Adelaja","tags":["citizens","civilisation","civilized-society","danger","darkness","destruction","god","ignorance","institution","knowledge","laws","life","light","mountain","nation","people","power","privileges","rights","society"],"id":73754,"author_id":"Sunday+Adelaja"},{"text":"And I'll close by saying this. Because anti-Semitism is the godfather of racism and the gateway to tyranny and fascism and war, it is to be regarded not as the enemy of the Jewish people, I learned, but as the common enemy of humanity and of civilisation, and has to be fought against very tenaciously for that reason, most especially in its current, most virulent form of Islamic Jihad. Daniel Pearl's revolting murderer was educated at the London School of Economics. Our Christmas bomber over Detroit was from a neighboring London college, the chair of the Islamic Students' Society. Many pogroms against Jewish people are being reported from all over Europe today as I'm talking, and we can only expect this to get worse, and we must make sure our own defenses are not neglected. Our task is to call this filthy thing, this plague, this—this pest, by its right name; to make unceasing resistance to it, knowing all the time that it's probably ultimately ineradicable, and bearing in mind that its hatred towards us is a compliment, and resolving (some of the time, at any rate) to do a bit more to deserve it. Thank you.","author":"Christopher Hitchens","tags":["ahmed-omar-saeed-sheikh","anti-semitism","christmas","civilisation","daniel-pearl","detroit","europe","fascism","islam","jews","jihad","london","murder","northwest-airlines-flight-253","pogroms","racism","speeches","tyranny","umar-farouk-abdulmutallab","war"],"id":84827,"author_id":"Christopher+Hitchens"},{"text":"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.","author":"Benjamin Disraeli","tags":["civilisation","comfort","materialism","progress","science"],"id":103053,"author_id":"Benjamin+Disraeli"},{"text":"Few travelled in these days, for, thanks to the advance of science, the earth was exactly alike all over. Rapid intercourse, from which the previous civilization had hoped so much, had ended by defeating itself. What was the good of going to Peking when it was just like Shrewsbury? Why return to Shrewsbury when it would all be like Peking? Men seldom moved their bodies; all unrest was concentrated in the soul.","author":"E.M. Forster","tags":["bodies","civilisation","civilization","future","machine","science-fiction","soul","travel","unrest"],"id":108980,"author_id":"E.M.+Forster"},{"text":"The Norweigian philosopher Tonnesen said that to think about anything but death is evasion. Society, art, culture, the whole of civilisation is nothing but evasion, one great collective self delusion, the intention of which is to make us forget that all the time we are falling through the air, at every moment getting closer to death.","author":"Sven Lindqvist","tags":["civilisation","death","philosophy","society"],"id":114549,"author_id":"Sven+Lindqvist"},{"text":"As he grew older, which was mostly in my absence, my firstborn son, Alexander, became ever more humorous and courageous. There came a time, as the confrontation with the enemies of our civilization became more acute, when he sent off various applications to enlist in the armed forces. I didn't want to be involved in this decision either way, especially since I was being regularly taunted for not having 'sent' any of my children to fight in the wars of resistance that I supported. (As if I could 'send' anybody, let alone a grown-up and tough and smart young man: what moral imbeciles the 'anti-war' people have become.).","author":"Christopher Hitchens","tags":["antiwar","civilisation","courage","enemies","fathers","humour","iraq","iraq-war","morality","resistance","sons","war","war-on-terror"],"id":122431,"author_id":"Christopher+Hitchens"},{"text":"Sweat, scalded meat, puke, blood, smoke and a dozen kinds of bad ale and wine: the bouquet of civilized nightlife.","author":"Scott Lynch","tags":["civilisation","drinking","humor"],"id":123602,"author_id":"Scott+Lynch"},{"text":"Fuck you, diet,” said Stuart. “The diet schmeer is the end of civilisation as we know it.","author":"David Pratt","tags":["civilisation","diet","end","schmeer"],"id":124520,"author_id":"David+Pratt"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":47,"pages":5,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}