Civilization Quotes

In societies of low civilization, there is no money.

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.

There can be no high civilization where there is not ample leisure.

One might enumerate the items of high civilization, as it exists in other countries, which are absent from the texture of American life, until it should become a wonder to know what was left.

That amid our highest civilization men faint and die with want is not due to the niggardliness of nature, but to the injustice of man.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

There is in reality no such thing as modern art. Art is carried on up and down in immense cycles through centuries and civilizations.

The city is the nerve center of our civilization. It is also the storm center.

When the history of civilization is written, it will be a biological history and Margaret Sanger will be its heroine.

Civilization is the art of living in towns of such size the everyone does not know everyone else.

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.

Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty ones.

The refusal of the British and Russian peoples to accept what appeared to be inevitable defeat was the great factor in the salvage of our civilization.

Civilization is a disease produced by the practice of building societies with rotten material.

Those who admire modern civilization usually identify it with the steam engine and the electric telegraph.

Civilized society is one huge bourgeoisie: no nobleman dares now shock his greengrocer.

No community has ever yet passed beyond the initial phases in which its pugnacity and fanaticism enabled it to found a nation, and its cupidity to establish and develop a commercial civilization.

The history of civilization could actually be written in terms of the level of its women.

The fact remains that, if the supply of energy failed, modern civilization would come to an end as abruptly as does the music of an organ deprived of wind.

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 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.

We are like ignorant shepherds living on a site where great civilizations once flourished.

The fact is, that civilization requires slaves. Unless there are slaves to do the ugly, horrible, uninteresting work, culture and contemplation become almost impossible.

The ideal of a single civilization for everyone, implicit in the cult of progress and technique, impoverishes and mutilates us

Our civilization depends largely on paper.

An odd thing occurs in the minds of Americans when Indian civilization in mentioned: little or nothing.

Allen's Law of Civilization: It is better for civilization to be going down the drain than to be coming up it.

The sense of a long last night over civilization is back again.

The world is ruled, and the destiny of civilization is established, by the human emotions.

The market came with the dawn of civilization and it is not an invention of capitalism. ... If it leads to improving the well-being of the people there is no contradiction with socialism.

There's never been a civilization that has rewritten what marriage and family means and survived.

Next to the striking of fire and the discovery of the wheel, the greatest triumph of what we call civilization was the domestication of the human male.

It has been well said that tea is suggestive of a thousand wants, from which spring the decencies and luxuries of civilization.

I have no doubt that historians will conclude that we of the twentieth century had intelligence enough to create a great civilization but not the moral wisdom to preserve it.

It is always the moralists who do the most harm. Abortion is the logical outcome of civilization, only the jungle gives birth and moulders away as nature decrees. Man plans.

Our insatiable drive to rummage deep beneath the surface of the earth is a willful expansion of our dysfunctional civilization into Nature.

Our civilization survives in the complacency of cowardly or malignant minds -- a sacrifice to the vanity of aging adolescents

A world government with powers adequate to guarantee security is not a remote ideal for the distant future. It is an urgent necessity if our civilization is to survive.

Only an ethical movement can rescue us from barbarism, and the ethical comes into existence only in individuals.

Civilization has developed executive powers far beyond its understanding.

Civilization is not a burden. It is an opportunity.

Without adventure civilization is in full decay. ... The great fact [is] that in their day the great achievements of the past were the adventures of the past.

Tolerance is held to be a condition of mind which is encouraged by, and is necessary for, civilization.