Civilization Quotes
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.
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.
There's never been a civilization that has rewritten what marriage and family means and survived.
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.
The world is ruled, and the destiny of civilization is established, by the human emotions.
Allen's Law of Civilization: It is better for civilization to be going down the drain than to be coming up it.
An odd thing occurs in the minds of Americans when Indian civilization in mentioned: little or nothing.
The ideal of a single civilization for everyone, implicit in the cult of progress and technique, impoverishes and mutilates us
The fact is, that civilization requires slaves. Unless there are slaves to do the ugly, horrible, uninteresting work, culture and contemplation become almost impossible.
In going to America one learns that poverty is not a necessary accompaniment to civilization.
My play is the ultimate expression of my feeling of the twilight of Western civilization.
The purpose of civilization and growth is to be able to reach out and empathize with other people... For me, the movies are like a machine that generates empathy.
This extraordinary metal, the soul of every manufacture, and the mainspring perhaps of civilised society. Of iron.
Americans' great and secret fear is that America may turn out to be a phenomenon rather than a civilization.
What I am more concerned about is whether our whole civilization will be around in the next 25 years.
I have long been convinced that institutions purely democratic must, sooner or later, destroy liberty or civilization, or both.
Is man’s civilization only a wrappage, through which the savage nature of him can still burst, infernal as ever?
Some people say that taxes are the price we pay for civilization. But the runaway taxes of our time are the price we pay for being gullible.
There is no civilization that did not begin with art, Whether it was drawing a line in the sand, painting a cave or dancing.
Primitiveness and civilization are degrees of the same thing. If civilization has an opposite, it is war.
Cruelty practiced as a matter of social principle or public policy, and presented to the community as a means to a higher goal is the most obscene and decadent phenomenon of any civilization.
The great menace of civilization in the present is that we offer an education with too little regard for the roots.
Civilization must be destroyed. The hairy saints of the North have earned this crumb by their complaints.
Unless we redesign our civilization in numerous ways, all of the science in the world won't save us.
The enemies of American civilization-- for such are the enemies of slavery-- seem to be more on the alert than its friends.
In the advance of civilization, it is new knowledge which paves the way, and the pavement is eternal.
Not a single piece of material culture - not a single object - has been found at Giza that can be interpreted to come from a lost civilization.
We cannot hope to create a sustainable culture with any but sustainable souls.
Civilization did not come with fire. It came with the discovery of how to use fire to heat water.
The market system is the basis of our civilization. Its only alternative is the Führer principle.
We may be sure that out of the ruins of our capitalist civilization a new religion will emerge, just as Christianity emerged from the ruins of the Roman civilization.
