Civilisation Quotes
Our civilisation has lost this bond between times, and tends to measure time with a yardstick, bit by bit, from one point to another.
No civilisation can claim to have a monopoly on universal values and no one can claim to be always faithful to his own values.
A stable climate is the most fundamental resource of all. No one has yet built a civilisation in an unstable climate
It is a sure criterion of the civilisation of ancient Egypt that the soldiers did not carry arms except on duty, and that the private citizens did not carry them at all.
Civilisation makes us all as alike as peas in a pod, and it is the very uncouth - uncivilised, if you will - element which individualises nations.
Scientific men can hardly escape the charge of ignorance with regard to the precise effect of the impact of modern science upon the mode of living of the people and upon their civilisation.
We are producing urban places which are disjointed and disconnected and not worthy of our civilisation
A great European federative system alone can be favourable to the development of civilisation.
If we ever talk to aliens, their civilisation will be far more advanced than ours (because of distances involved). They won't be religious!
In some ways, I lament the introduction of civilisation on such a huge scale, because it has given us a lot of room to abuse each other, which we continue to do.
Civilisation is hooped together, brought Under a rule, under the semblance of peace By manifold illusion.
CIVILISATION is not to be judged by the rapidity of communication, but by the value of what is communicated.
The future of our civilisation depends upon the widening spread and deepening hold of the scientific habit of mind.
Roving dogs do not indicate the civilisation or compassion of the society. They betray on the country the ignorance and lethargy of its members.
The progress and civilisation of the human race simply mean controlling this nature.
Civilisation is never so charming as when it is an island in the middle of simplicity, or of a civilisation of an alien kind.
When one is the agent of order and civilisation in the universe, one doesn't stoop to negotiate. Especially with nonhumans.
I have heard earnest American sociologists say that American children have a right to the divorce experience as an enriching element of an advanced civilisation.
The mood and temper of the public in regard to the treatment of crime and criminals is one of the most unfailing tests of the civilisation of any country.
Our civilisation cannot afford to let the censor-moron loose. The censor-moron does not really hate anything but the living and growing human consciousness.
As long as our civilisation keeps trundling along generally forwards, then there is the possibility of a future where ethnicity is merely an interesting badge, not a uniform you can't take off.
Science devises ever bloodier means of war until humanity's powers of destruction overcome our powers of creation and our civilisation drives itself to extinction.
We've been taught that the renaissance was one of the great golden ages of civilisation. The renaissance was not a golden age, it was the end of a golden age.
There is a physical, not moral, impossibility of supplying the wants of the intellect in the state of civilisation at which we have arrived.
If there is one country and its people that have contributed most to western civilisation's man-made world continuously for the last 2000 years, it must surely be Italy.
I think the degree of a nation's civilisation may be measured by the degree of enlightenment of its women.
The desire not to be impinged upon, to be left to oneself, has been the markof high civilisation both on the part of individuals and communities.
The goal of education should be to dismantle the Middle Pole view, not to reinforce it in the name of the need for a grounding in one's own civilisation.
Civilisation needs more than the law to hold it together. You see, all mankind are not equally willing to accept as divine justice what is called human law.
What really dissatisfies in American civilisation is the want of the interesting, a want due chiefly to the want of those two great elements of the interesting, which are elevation and beauty.
Life is full of a thousand red herrings, and it takes the history of a civilisation to work out which are the red herrings and which aren't.
Human beings have a need, generally, to destroy things. The Freudian principle of civilisation is correct. There's always, always a difference between the family image and the reality.
Indian civilisation does not distinguish in terms of religion. We are an impossible achievement in the world and I'm very proud to be an Indian.
Jesus is absolutely at the centre of Western civilisation and part of my fascination with him is, why? What is it about this particular man and his story?
The culture-heroes of our liberal bourgeois civilisation are ant-liberal and ant-bourgeois . . .
We are free, we are civilised, to little purpose, if we grudge to any portion of the human race an equal measure of freedom and civilisation.
