Civilization Quotes

Civilization is the process of reducing the infinite to the finite.

The test of civilization is the estimate of woman.

The crimes of extreme civilization are probably worse than those of extreme barbarism, because of their refinement, the corruption they presuppose, and their superior degree of intellectuality.

I don't care two hoots about civilization. I want to wander in the wild.

A slight daily unconscious luxury is hardly ever wanting to the dwellers in civilization; like the gentle air of a genial climate, it is a perpetual minute enjoyment.

Science?is so greatly opposed to history and tradition that it cannot be absorbed by our civilization.

Muslims stand by their religion entirely. It is a sort of religious absolutism. While Europeans have stopped defending the values of their civilization. They confuse tolerance with relativism.

[To the South African parliament:] I do not know why we equate - and with the examples before us - a white skin with civilization.

... it is a matter of civilizing everyone or not being civilized at all: the decay has always come from a partial civilization.

We seem to be trapped by a civilization that has accelerated many physical aspects of evolution but has forgotten that other vital part of man -- his mind and his psyche.

The Bhagavad-Gita is a true scripture of the human race a living creation rather than a book, with a new message for every age and a new meaning for every civilization.

Would a NASA reality show "Lunar Shore" be more popular than "Jersey Shore?" Civilization's future depends on that answer.

Health is the fastest growing failing business in western civilization.

Simple practices like conscious breathing and smiling are very important. They can change our civilization.

As long as there are prisons, police, armies, navies; we are not civilized. When the Earth joins together and uses the Earth intelligently, that will be the beginning of civilization.

The price we pay for our advance in civilization is a loss of happiness through the heightening of the sense of guilt.

The human race has improved everything, but the human race.

The English think soap is civilization.

The moral development of a civilization is measured by the breadth of its sense of community.

Every civilization sees itself as the center of the world and writes its history as the central drama of human history.

So the story of man runs in a dreary circle, because he is not yet master of the earth that holds him.

One is a member of a country, a profession, a civilization, a religion. One is not just a man.

But Chinese civilization has the overpowering beauty of the wholly other, and only the wholly other can inspire the deepest love and the profoundest desire to learn.

The true pioneer of civilization is not the newspaper, not religion, not the railroad - but whiskey!

Historically, if you look at great civilizations, why do they crumble? Is it because of what's outside or because of something internal? It's always internal. It is.

It seems to me far more likely that an advanced civilization would communicate inter dimensionally and telepathically.

The true law of the race is progress and development. Whenever civilization pauses in the march of conquest, it is overthrown by the barbarian.

As a student of history, I also know civilization's debt to Islam.

Books are the carriers of civilization... Books are humanity in print.

Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled.

Civilization is in a race between education and catastrophe. Let us learn the truth and spread it as far and wide as our circumstances allow. For the truth is the greatest weapon we have.

Not by force of arms are civilizations held together, but by subtle threads of moral and intellectual principle.

The human heart as modern civilization has made it is more prone to hatred than to friendship. And it is prone to hatred because it is dissatisfied.

The periods of unemployment accompanying depression in the business cycle . . . present a challenge to all our claims to progress, humanity, and civilization.

In the cycle of a great civilization, the artist begins as priest, and ends as a clown or buffoon.

Monuments and archaeological pieces serve as testimonies of man's greatness and establish a dialogue between civilizations showing the extent to which human beings are linked.

We veneer civilization by doing unkind things in a kind way.

The home is the most important factor in civilization, and that civilization is to be measured at different stages largely by the development in the home.

Civilization is not a spontaneous generation with any race or nation known to history, but the torch is handed down from race to race and from age to age, and gains in brilliancy as it goes.

It is impossible to found a civilization on fear and hatred and cruelty. It would never endure.' 'Why not?' 'It would have no vitality. It would disintegrate. It would commit suicide.

The sickness of the individual is ultimately caused by and sustained by the sickness of his civilization

Back through the ages of barbarism and civilization, in all tongues, we find this instinctive pleasure in the imitative action that is the very essence of all drama.

I think governments are the cancer of civilization.

The measure of any great civilization is its cities and a measure of a city's greatness is to be found in the quality of its public spaces, its parks and squares.

The interesting thing is the field is so big - it's enormous. One thing a modern civilization needs is energy.

Civilization is the distance man has placed between himself and his excreta.

The main problem is that we, as an Earth civilization, have not come to understand ourselves - see ourselves in a cosmic sense at all.

We believe that civilization has been created under the pressure of the exigencies of life at the cost of satisfaction of the instincts.

Continue to express your dissent and your needs, but remember to remain civilized, for you will sorely miss civilization if it is sacrified in the turbulence of change.

Underneath all civilization, ancient or modern, moved and still moves a sea of magic, superstition, and sorcery. Perhaps they will remain when the works of our reason have passed away.