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civilian
"All that civilization is and can be
exists within us.
If we forget that, we forget
literally everything."
- Jonah Goldberg
"The greatest advances of
civilization,
whether in architecture or painting,
in science and
literature, in industry or agriculture,
have never come from
centralized government."
- Milton Friedman, Presidential
Medal of Freedom, Riksbank
Prize
"A society that no longer recognizes that
nature and human life have a sacred
dimension, an intrinsic value beyond monetary value, commits collective
suicide. Such societies cannibalize themselves until they die."
-
Christopher Lynn Hedges
"One of the great problems about our civilization
is the divorce between public and private life, between fact and value, between
the privatization of faith and a public life which sometimes seems can only be
organized on the basis of number-based observations."
- Richard Chartres,
bishop of London
"Anything human civilization has ever created,
from the pyramids to the space station,
rests ultimately upon a
foundation of symbols."
-
Charles
Eisenstein
"So often we see ourselves as a lonely
cultural pinnacle, superior beyond all comparison.
But if recent excavations at Stonehenge offer anything, they put our era in
perspective, reminding us of an unbroken lineage shared across continents and
cultures. We are simply an extension of an ancient
age, living now in the next lost civilization."
- Craig Childs "I was saddened and angered by the
news that the Central Intelligence Agency chief
believes the infamous practice of waterboarding can
be justified under certain circumstances.
This practice has been universally recognized by civilized nations and
international law to be
torture.
That top officials of
our government are so out of step with
civilized notions of humanity is
extremely distressing.
Yes, the members of
al-Qa`ida do constitute
a threat to us. But have we thought about what we
are losing by lowering ourselves to their level of barbarity?
The only
victory that al-Qa`ida
can ever win is to cause us to abandon our fundamental notions of human decency and
liberty. If we, as a people, allow our
leaders to compromise our values and
humanity in the name of
national security, then we not only
share responsibility for the criminal actions they commit in our name, we
forfeit our place among civilized nations." - Chris Apostal 02/08
"All
of civilization is the struggle to rise above our base natural instincts - even
what we are hard-wired to do. We can make ourselves better. If someone slaps
you on the cheek, I think it is unnatural to turn the other cheek. The natural
thing would be to punch him very hard in the mouth. But is that always the
better or even the more effective thing to do?" - Mark Kurlansky
"We
have surrendered rationality to those who call themselves judges and
humanitarians and demonstrate it by spitting on the graves of the innocent
victims of bestial predators." - Charles K. Sergis
"State-sanctioned killing is barbaric, cruel and should be highly
unusual. We should join the civilized countries of the world in eliminating
it." - Joy Buckley
"In the reduction of reality to number and name, in the
program of owning and controlling the world, we have wrought a Tower of Babel,
seeking with our finite tools to take the infinite by storm. To do this we have
so specialized and separated, and so reduced and exhausted the world, that the
coherency of the vast megamachine that makes possible our ascent to the heavens
is threatened. Our tools of control are insufficient to manage the chaos we
have unleashed. Our ascent, even the illusion of our ascent, slows to a
standstill as the effort merely to hold everything together grows to consume
all resources. Now, as the Tower totters under its own weight, now as each
attempt to shore up its crumbling sections adds to the instability of the whole
edifice, perhaps we can see more clearly, from amid the ruins of our
civilization, what the collective purpose that we have yearned for might be." -
Charles
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Civilization is defined as:Cultural or intellectual refinement;
good taste.
A
society in an advanced state of
development.
The
act or process of civilizing
or reaching a civilized state.
The
act of civilizing, or the
state of being civilized; national culture;
refinement.
Modern society with its
conveniences: returned to civilization after camping in the
mountains.
The type of
culture and society
developed by a particular nation
or region or in a particular epoch.
An advanced
state of intellectual,
cultural, and material
development in
human society, marked by
progress in the arts and sciences, the extensive use of
record-keeping, including writing, and the appearance
of complex political and social
institutions.
Of or
pertaining to Hallstatt, Austria, or the Hallstatt civilization: a prehistoric
civilization of central Europe, variously dated at from 1000 to 1500 BC and
usually associated with the Celtic or Alpine race. It was characterized by
expert use of bronze, a
knowledge of iron,
possession of domestic
animals, agriculture,
and artistic skill,
sentiment in manufacturing pottery,
aethetic in ornaments, etc.
For any group of
people to start a civilization, six aspects
are required. These attributes are a system of laws,
government, specialization of labor,
system of writing, trade, and
taxation.
The
the best preserved ancient written code
of law was carved in basalt around 1760 BC in
Babylon. The
Code of Hammurabi consisted of 282
laws in total. The purpose of the
Code of Hammurabi was to cause
justice to prevail in the land, to prevent the
strong from oppressing the weak and to further the welfare of the
people.
The earlier Code of Ur-Nammu (21st century BC), the Hittite laws
(ca. 1300 BC), and Mosaic Law (traditionally ca. 1400 BC under Moses), all
contain statutes that bear resemblance to those in the
Code of Hammurabi and other law
codices from the same geographic area.
citizen
"The _civilized man_, is he whom
experience and sociality have enabled to draw from
nature the means of his own happiness, because he has learned to oppose
resistance to those impulses he receives from exterior beings, when
experience has taught him they would be
destructive to his welfare. " - Paul-Henri Thiry, Baron d'Holbach
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful,
committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever
has." - Margaret Mead a civilian
a resident of a
city or town,
especially one entitled to vote and enjoy
other privileges there.
an
individual owing loyalty to and
entitled by birth or naturalization to the protection of a state or nation.
a native, inhabitant, or denizen of a particular place: "We have
learned to be citizens of the Earth, members of the
human community."-Franklin D.
Roosevelt
For a civilization to function and remain viable
the citizens must continually agree that the laws are
just.
Citizens of a democracy must be given the ability to solicit for
modification of laws so the law
continues to remain just under changing
circumstances.
But citizens must not disobey even onerous
laws - even if the laws are ill
conceived, unjust
or appear brutal.
A failure
on the part of the citizens to obey
the natural or social law - an acceptance among a group of citizens, especially
leaders, that a law or a
group of laws need not be
obeyed - undermines the very
foundations upon which their civilization has been built.
"The only way to maintain a
government of laws, rather than one of men, is
to punish lawbreaking, no matter who the lawbreaker is."- Eric Stockel
This is the path that the following civilizations
took:
Harappan civilization of Indus Valley, Egyptian
civilization of the Nile Valley, the Shang dynasty, the Zhou dynasty of the
Yellow River valley, the Tang dynasty of China, the Yuan dynasty of
China, the Qing dynasty of
China, the Han dynasty of
China, the Tubo Kingdom of Tibet, the Yuan
Dynasty of Tibet, the Qing Dynasty of Tibet, the Mayan civilization, the Inca
civilization, the Aztec civilization,
the Cherokee Nation, the
Hallstatt civilization, the Roman Empire,
the Byzantium Empire, the Ottoman Empire, the Spanish Empire, the French
Empire, the British Empire, the Third Reich, the Japanese Empire, the United
Soviet Socialist Republic...
Applying to
ordinary citizens.
Of or in a condition of
social order.
Of, relating to, or befitting a citizen or citizens.
Of or in accordance with
organized society;
civilized.
Performing the duties of a citizen;
obedient to
government.
Divisions of
time legally recognized in
ordinary affairs of life.
Subject to
government; reduced to order; civilized;
not barbarous.
Sufficiently
observing or befitting accepted social usages; not
rude.
Of or relating to citizens and their
interrelations with one another or
with the state.
Relating to rights and remedies sought by action or suit
distinct from criminal proceedings.
Of
ordinary citizens or ordinary community
life as distinguished from the
military or the ecclesiastical.
Having the manners of one dwelling in a
city, as
opposed to those of
savages or rustics;
polite; courteous; complaisant; affable.
Relating to the rights of
private
individuals and legal
proceedings concerning these rights as distinguished from
criminal, military, or international regulations or
proceedings.
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America and is responsible for the collapse of morals, the elevation of
self-centered behavior and the destruction of global ecosystems. Civilization
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