Civilization Quotes

We argue with our biology, and the result of that argument is civilization.

Scopes isn’t on trial; civilization is on trial.

One difference between savagery and civilization is a little courtesy. There's no telling what a lot of courtesy would do.

In the dust where we have buried the silent races and their abominations we have buried so much of the delicate magic of life.

That's what civilization sometimes did to threats, real or perceived. They walled them off. Us against them. Survival of the fittest. You die so I can live.

For all of higher civilization's recorded history, becoming a man was defined overwhelmingly as taking responsibility for a family.

I declare today for the world to hear that the West will never, ever be broken. Our values will prevail. Our people will thrive. And our civilization will triumph.

Our great civilization, here in America and across the civilized world has come upon a moment of reckoning.

A man's hope measures his civilization. The attainability of the hope measures, or may measure, the civilization of his nation and time.

That which we call civilization is merely the accumulated debris of a chilling number of bad nights.

The money-changers have fled from their high seats in the temple of our civilization. We may now restore that temple to the ancient truths.

We do not see faith, hope, and charity as unattainable ideals, but we use them as stout supports of a nation fighting the fight for freedom in a modern civilization.

Without men, civilization would last until the oil needed changing.

Civil war was not a mere strife for territory and dominion, but a contest of civilization against barbarism.

The degree of a nation’s civilization can be seen in the way it treats its prisoners

In a living society every day is a day of judgment; and its recognition as such is not the end of all things but the beginning ofa real civilization.

Civilization has run on ahead of the soul of man, and is producing faster than he can think and give thanks.

While denial leads to certainty, it is only the certainty of death. This is true for individuals and also for civilizations.

The origin of civilization is man's determination to do nothing for himself which he can get done for him.

Universities are meant to pass the torch of civilization.

The slaves of developed industrial civilization are sublimated slaves.

We are a scientific civilization. That means a civilization in which knowledge and its integrity are crucial. Science is only a Latin word for knowledge ... Knowledge is our destiny.

Without the institution of slavery, civilization would never have been achieved, for no one could ever have done anything intellectual if he had to spend all his time hewing and digging and fighting.

I see little more important to the future of our country and our civilization than the full recognition of the place of the artist.

As women go, so goes civilization.

Some people think it's naive to think we can make love our new bottom line. What I believe is naive is thinking human civilization as we know it will survive another two hundred years if we do not.

In our present high state of civilization, people are so much alike, that anything at all odd comes on one with the freshness and character of an antique coin among smooth shillings.

The poet Melvin B. Tolson once said "A civilization is judged only in its decline." That made sense to me. I would imagine the same is true for poets and tennis players.

Civilization has always been a bust.

In Kali yuga, whole atmosphere is surcharged with faithlessness, Material sense gratification is standard of civilization.

Civilization, to be worthy of the name, must afford other methods of settling human differences than those of blood letting.

Reading is at the center of our lives. The library is our brain. Without the library, you have no civilization.

I cannot think that espionage can be recommended as a technique for building an impressive civilization. It's a lout's game.

The saddest object in civilization, and to my mind the greatest confession of its failure, is the man who can work, who wants work, and who is not allowed to work.

Marketing is about spreading ideas, and spreading ideas is the single most important output of our civilization.

The Nobel Prizes are much more than awards to scholars; they are a celebration of civilization, of mankind, and of what makes humans unique - that is their intellect from which springs creativity.

Money no longer has any meaning. Civilization is coming to an end. If not the destruction of the world, it's an endless stalemate.

If we were to place our power at the service of our imaginations rather than our primate politics we would create a civilization worthy of the name.

Normality is the Great Neurosis of civilization.

The easily ridiculed, so-so status quo often hides Herculean efforts by those whom we take for granted, and who, working in the shadows, guarantee civilization instead of chaos.

No healthy civilization can ever be reared on a foundation of devitalized work.

Our lifetime may be the last that will be lived out in a technological society.

In order for us to have a future that's exciting and inspiring, it has to be one where we're a space-bearing civilization.

What can oppose the decline of the west is not a resurrected culture but the utopia that is silently contained in the image of its decline.

Civilization is vastly overrated.

If the world was made for us, then it BELONGS to us and we can do what we damn well please with it.

Books are precious things, but more than that, they are the strong backbone of civilization. They are the thread upon which it all hangs, and they can save us when all else is lost.

No civilization, including Plato's, has ever been destroyed because its citizens learned too much.

To the Indians it seemed that these Europeans hated everything in nature - the living forests and their birds and beasts, the grassy grades, the water, the soil, the air itself.

[O]ne person's 'barbarian' is another person's 'just doing what everybody else is doing.