Civilization Quotes
Books are the building blocks of civilization and a people without books are a people without history, a people with no story older than the tales of the oldest man or woman.
Our whole civilization rests on the fact that men have always succeeded in beating off the attack of the re-distributors.
The very essence of our civilization is that we give a paramount place to morality in all our affairs, public or private.
I want co-operation between nations for the salvaging of civilization, but co-operation presupposes free nations worthy of co-operation.
We need to evolve and articulate a global ethics for a global civilization that integrates and evolves the passionate truths of every great system of knowledge - pre-modern, modern, and post-modern.
Organized charity itself is. . . the surest sign that our civilization has bred, is breeding and is perpetuating constantly increasing numbers of defectives, delinquents and dependents
Are we asserting the easy dominion of our civilization over all times and all places, as signs that we casually absorb as a form of loot?
What an extraordinary achievement for a civilization: to have developed the one diet that reliably makes its people sick!
If civilization ever achieves a higher standard of what constitutes normality, it will have been the neurotic who led the way.
I'm opposed to a lot of the time that we as a civilization have come to spend looking at screens. For my money, life is much delicious damn near everyplace but inside that screen.
The acceptance of homosexuality is the last step in the decline of Gentile civilization.
I am especially grateful, however, to have known the fifties, before we began to poison our own civilization - or at least before the effects of the poison began to be felt.
The science is in: either we go cold turkey on our coal, oil, and gas addictions, or we risk raising the planet's temperature to a level incompatible with the continued existence of civilization.
War has been with us ever since the dawn of civilization. Nothing has been more constant in history than war.
Civilization is a natural and inevitable consequence - whether good or evil I am not prepared to state.
For an America of wisdom that honors the family, knowing that if the family goes, so goes our civilization.
America seemed a virgin land waiting for civilization. But Europe had made the wilderness it found; America was not a virgin, she was a widow.
That religion may have served some necessary function for us in the past does not preclude the possibility that it is now the greatest impediment to our building a global civilization.
I always believe you have to show the symbolism of a civilization, whether it be the cave drawings or somebody drawing in the sand in Darfur to show a massacre.
Promises controversy on a scale not seen since Samuel Huntington’s Clash of Civilizations sought to reframe a new world order.
Civilization has taught us to eat with a fork, but even now if nobody is around we use our fingers.
Civilisation is hooped together, brought Under a rule, under the semblance of peace By manifold illusion.
Vanity as an impulse has without doubt been of far more benefit to civilization than modesty has ever been.
But the guilty person is only one of the targets of punishment. For punishment is directed above all at others, at all the potentially guilty.
Each time you admire the façade of the New York Public Library, you are paying homage to Western civilization.
English civilization rests largely upon tea and cricket, with mighty spurts of enjoyment on Derby Day, and at Newmarket.
A trial cannot be conducted by announcing the general culpability of a civilization. Only the actual deeds which, at least, stank in the nostrils of the entire world were brought to judgment.
Did you eat something that didn't agree with you?" asked Bernard. The Savage nodded "I ate civilization.
Civilization means food and literature all round. Beefsteaks and fiction magazines for all. First-class proteins for the body, fourth-class love-stories for the spirit.
The basic problem is that our civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man.
Artists are a free society's greatest advocates and its best bulwarks. Their triumphs are civilization's triumphs.
The worlds civilization started from the day on which everyone received reward for labour.
There is no escaping this fight. It is civilization or Jihadism. We can and should debate tactics; but the sides are clear enough.
Dietary fat, whether saturated or not, is not a cause of obesity, heart disease or any other chronic disease of civilization.
There is no clear or meaningful difference between insurgency and civil war, or between national terrorism and civil war for that matter.
A society based on Christian principles provides for pluralism, but with enough restrictions to prevent civilization from degenerating into chaos.
A civilization is complicated, in the first place, because it is dynamic; that is, it is constantly changing in the passage of time, until it has perished.