Civilization Quotes
Civilization Quote of the day
Civilization is a hopeless race to discover remedies for the evils it produces.
But that's the whole aim of civilization: to make everything a source of enjoyment.
It is impossible to overlook the extent to which civilization is built up upon a renunciation of instinct....
Tea is one of the main stays of civilization in this country.
The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization.
The capitalists are the brains of civilization, because they supply the entire fabric of which all education, enlightenment and human progress consists.
Barbarians are all alike... sit up half the night to discuss anything a Roman says.
(When asked what he thought of Western civilization): 'I think it would be a good idea.
To be a man is to feel that one's own stone contributes to building the edifice of the world.
There has never been but one question in all civilization-how to keep a few men from saying to many men: You work and earn bread and we will eat it.
The life of the arts, far from being an interruption, a distraction, in the life of the nation, is close to the center of a nation's purpose - and is a test to the quality of a nation's civilization.
Flushed with his impassioned gibberish, he saw himself standing alone on the last barrier of civilization.
Thus the great civilizer sends out its emissaries, sooner or later, to every sandy cape and light-house of the New World which the census-taker visits, and summons the savage there to surrender.
In the highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight. He who has once known its satisfactions is provided with a resource against calamity.
In order for us to have a future that's exciting and inspiring, it has to be one where we're a space-bearing civilization.
The old civilizations claimed that they were founded on love or justice. Ours is founded upon hatred. In our world there will be no emotions except fear, rage, triumph, and self-abasement.
We will never have true civilization until we have learned to recognize the rights of others.
If the Earth gets hit by an asteroid, it's game over. It's control-alt-delete for civilization.
And this also, " said Marlow suddenly, "has been one of the dark places of the earth.
A civilization is not destroyed by wicked people it is not necessary that people be wicked but only that they be spineless.
Girls should be taught at school that giving birth to an unnaturally over-sized western baby that no longer fits down the birth canal may lead to a multitude of long term health problems.
Thievery is for the civilized. It is what laws protect us from. I am a wild beast of no laws and no society. I want no laws. I want no more civilized things.
To what do I attribute our decline? It's far easier to be shocking than charming.
Modern civilisation has based its specific foundation on the principle of liberty which states that man is not a mere instrument to be used by others but rather a main autonomous living being.
Orgy-porgy, round and round and round, beating one another in six-eight time.
Civilization must be preserved, ' says he.'Civilization's doing fine, ' I said. 'We just don't happen to be where it is.
It was Francisco de Vitoria, a Catholic priest and professor, who earned the title of father of international law.
Green meant water, green patches meant farmers and farmers meant agriculture. Agriculture meant food to eat and food to sell, which meant towns and transport. They had reached civilization.
The premise of the Taker story is 'the world belongs to man'. … The premise of the Leaver story is 'man belongs to the world'.
Civilization did not come with fire. It came with the discovery of how to use fire to heat water.
The missing link between humans and apes? It's certainly those brutes who haven't yet learned to respect privacy.
Civilization is always threatened from below, by patterns of belief and emotion that may once have been useful to our ancestors, but that are useful no longer.
