Civilization Quotes

The crimes of extreme civilization are certainly more atrocious than those of extreme barbarism.

Religion is civilization, the highest.

civilization is a transient sickness.

I think our civilization is minimal enough without underlining it. Sculpture as a created object in space should enrich, not reflect, and should be beautiful. Beauty is its function.

Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy.

Civilization sails prettily like a child's rubber balloon until it hits a sharp object; then it is likely to collapse like the balloon.

It is just because civilization is ever evolving, changing, and becoming more complicated, that experts find it so difficult to define it in explicit terms.

There is a single thread of attitude, a single direction of flow, that joins our present time to it's early burgeoning in Mediterranean civilization...

The city is all right. To live in one Is to be civilized, stay up and read Or sing and dance all night and see sunrise By waiting up instead of getting up.

The city has become a serious menace to our civilization It has a peculiar attraction for the immigrant.

Extremes produce reaction. Beware that our boasted civilization does not lapse into barbarism.

A civilization is built on what is required of men, not on that which is provided for them.

The best test of the quality of a civilization is the quality of its leisure.

Barbarians always think of themselves as the bringers of civilization.

Man lowers his head and lunges into civilization, forgetting the days of his infancy when he sought truth in a snowflake or a stick. Man forgets the wisdom of the child.

If during their education our youths become alienated from their language, history, ancestors, culture and civilization, it means there is a very serious educational problem there.

America is the civilization of people engaged in transforming themselves. In the past, the stars of the performance were the pioneer and the immigrant. Today, it is youth and the Black.

True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written, and writing what deserves to be read.

The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization.

I hate paying taxes. But I love the civilization they give me

A German immersed in any civilization different from his own loses a weight equivalent in volume to the amount of intelligence he displaces.

The brown paper bag is the only thing civilized man has produced that does not seem out of place in nature.

One could surely argue that the Buddhist tradition, taken as a whole, represents the richest source of contemplative wisdom that any civilization has produced.

Family life was and always will be the foundation of any civilization. Destroy the family and you destroy the country.

Any civilization where the main symbol of religious veneration is a tool of execution is a bad place to have children.

If men do not now succeed in abolishing war, civilization and mankind are doomed.

No civilization, no matter how mighty it may appear to itself, is indestructible.

Our civilization is flinging itself to pieces. Stand back from the centrifuge.

The human landscape of the New World shows a conquest of nature by an intelligence that does not love it.

All civilizations at some time have fallen into this total terror, when the mystery of life was a kind of panic only to be assuaged by the spilling of blood.

Civilization is nothing else but the attempt to reduce force to being the last resort.

It is an altogether wrong idea that the modern product of civilization is less susceptible to love. I sometimes think it is the other way.

I have always said, heard, that it would not be strange that there had been civilization on Mars, but maybe capitalism arrived there, imperialism arrived and finished off the planet.

Simplicity is the peak of civilization.

Civilization is first of all a moral thing. Without truth, respect for duty, love of neighbor, and virtue, everything is destroyed. The morality of a society is alone the basis of civilization.

There is an old saying that the course of civilization is a race between catastrophe and education. In a democracy such as ours, we must make sure that education wins the race.

The civilization of cities is breeding a new race of monks who have none of the original religious drive towards chastity, but are just incapable of facing the responsibilities of marriage.

Nature is rarely allowed to enter the sacred portals of civilized society.

In the West you have every opportunity for civilization to triumph.

The civilization of a state should be measured by the amount of suffering it prevents and the degree of happiness it makes possible for its citizens.

... one can judge a civilization by the way its treats its women.

Almighty God: Our sons, pride of our Nation, this day have set upon a mighty endeavor, a struggle to preserve our Republic, our religion, and our civilization, and to set free a suffering humanity.

The papacy again, representing the traditional unity of European civilization, has also shown itself unable to limit effectively the push of nationalism.

When work goes out of style we may expect to see civilization totter and fall.

This is the reality of nuclear weapons: they may trigger a world war; a war which, unlike previous ones, destroys all of civilization.

Comedy speaks for civilization; farce bears an ill-concealed, sometimes unconcealed animus against civilization. Often against civility too.

The more rapidly a civilization progresses, the sooner it dies for another to rise in its place.

Civilizations proceed from the heart rather than from the head.

There are few substance to which it yields interest, when it is considered how very intimately the knowledge and properties and uses of iron is connected with human civilization.

Some people die before their time so that others can live. It's a cornerstone of civilization.