We only refer to sapient creatures as civilized when their society is willingly self-correcting. That means that any problem or imbalance that arises is fixed, and I mean really fixed - not ignored, not hidden, and not passed off to a future generation.
I am beginning to understand, " said the little prince. "There is a flower... I think that she has tamed me...
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Unknown
It's in the morning, for most of us. It's that time, those few seconds when we're coming out of sleep but we're not really awake yet. For those few seconds we're something more primitive than what we are about to become. We have just slept...
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Jerry Spinelli
Civilization is vastly overrated.
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Patricia Briggs
When humor goes, there goes civilization.
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Erma Bombeck
There's nothing fundamentally wrong with people. Given a story to enact that puts them in accord with the world, they will live in accord with the world. But given a story to enact that puts them at odds with the world, as yours does, they...
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Daniel Quinn
More Quotes By J.Z. Colby
I don't think Tera is capable of working with you by her own choice, no matter how much grass you pull for her, no matter how much you brush her. I think she's more like ... a three or four-year-old child, and you are her...
I'm just a girl trying to learn where to put my feet ... and where not to.
The universe is so arranged that the power to destroy the climate or the ecosystem of your home planet only comes when you also have the wisdom to know that doing so is a fatal mistake. Therefore, any species that does that is suicidal, and...
I come from a place where everyone has great power, by your standards, and they steadfastly refuse to use it for self-aggrandizement ... anywhere ... ever.
The world has many places that can make us uncomfortable. Calling them evil, or any other bad name, doesn’t make them go away.
