Civilization Quotes
The true law of the race is progress and development. Whenever civilization pauses in the march of conquest, it is overthrown by the barbarian.
It seems to me far more likely that an advanced civilization would communicate inter dimensionally and telepathically.
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.
The true pioneer of civilization is not the newspaper, not religion, not the railroad - but whiskey!
One is a member of a country, a profession, a civilization, a religion. One is not just a man.
Shall we go on conferring our Civilization upon the peoples that sit in darkness, or shall we give those poor things a rest?
What a commentary on our civilization, when being alone is considered suspect; when one has to apologize for it, make excuses, hide the fact that one practices it—like a secret vice!
Sweatpants painted to look like denim are the end of civilization. It drives me mental.
Never before has a civilization reached such a degree of a contempt for life; never before has a generation, drowned in mortification, felt such a rage to live.
Tea is one of the main stays of civilization in this country.
Patriotism is an indispensable weapon in the defense of civilization against barbarism.
A chair is the first thing you need when you don’t really need anything, and is therefore a peculiarly compelling symbol of civilization. For it is civilization, not survival, that requires design.
Yet, history has shown that if material force can defeat some ideologies it can no longer obliterate a civilization without destabilizing the whole planet.
As long as art is the beauty parlor of civilization, neither art nor civilization is secure.
If we built houses the way we build software, the first woodpecker to come along would destroy civilization.
The thin and precarious crust of decency is all that separates any civilization, however impressive, from the hell of anarchy or systematic tyranny which lie in wait beneath the surface .
Man is a thinking animal, a talking animal, a toolmaking animal, a building animal, a political animal, a fantasizing animal. But, in the twilight of a civilization he is chiefly a taxpaying animal.
Everything in modern civilization is based on this concept of time which is not really valid.
We must reject the idea of isolationism, . But that doesn't mean we should get involved in every civil war around the world.
In the vastness of the Cosmos there must be other civilizations far older and more advanced than ours.
I think the health of our civilization, the depth of our awareness about the underpinnings of our culture, and our concern for the future, can all be tested by how well we support our libraries.
I don't actually believe in a clash of civilizations. I believe in a clash of the civilized and the noncivilized.
This civilization is rapidly passing away, however. Let us rejoice or else lament the fact as much as everyone of us likes; but do not let us shut our eyes to it.
Liberty is a luxury of security; the free individual is a product and a mark of civilization.
Barbarism is needed every four or five hundred years to bring the world back to life. Otherwise it would die of civilization.
Today's interpretations of religion are often backward and contradict the needs of civilization.
I would like to see us get this place right first before we have the arrogance to put significantly flawed civilizations out onto other planets, even though they may be utterly uninhabited.
What men call civilization is the condition of present customs; what they call barbarism, the condition of past ones.
When all material advancements utilized in spiritual need that is the real advancement of human civilization.
Civilization is not necessary before Christianity; do both together if you will, but you will find civilization follow Christianity more easily than Christianity follow civilization.
Jesus wept; Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived the grace of present civilization.
The Imaginative Child will become the imaginative man or woman most apt to create, to invent, and therefore to foster civilization
Underlying the whole scheme of civilization is the confidence men have in each other, confidence in their integrity, confidence in their honesty, confidence in their future.
