Civilization Quotes

Civilization is coming to an end, you understand.

Love of liberty means the guarding of every resource that makes freedom possible-from the sanctity of our families and the wealth of our soil to the genius [of] our scientists.

I firmly believe that the future of civilization is absolutely dependent upon finding some way of resolving international differences without resorting to war.

The mind left to itself creates monstrosities, and not only in art galleries. Look at our urban landscapes and industrial wastelands. No civilization has ever produced so much ugliness.

If we don't change, if the egoic consciousness continues, I don't believe that humanity as a species can survive, or at least human civilization can survive, for another hundred years.

I remind everybody that the Sabbath was the Jewish gift to civilization.

We're not on a sustainable path in civilization. We're on an exponential growth curve, on which we perhaps always have been, but it has turned up sharply at the beginning of the 20th century.

Tell me what are the prevailing sentiments that occupy the minds of your young peoples, and I will tell you what is to be the character of the next generation.

A society that feels itself too poor to afford the preservation of wilderness is not worthy of the name civilization.

Civilization, like an airplane in flight, survives only as it keeps going forward.

There has never yet been a human society worthy of the name of civilization. Civilization remains a remote ideal.

In a state of nature, the weakest go to the wall; in a state of over-refinement, both the weak and the strong go to the gutter.

Poets are the leaven in the lump of civilization.

Every two days now we create as much information as we did from the dawn of civilization up until 2003.

One of the biggest problems of our contemporary civilization is that there's been an interruption of transmission. People have no past in their present.

The choice between starving and being eaten is an exotic one.

Unless man has the wit and the grit to build his civilization on something better than material power, it is surely idle to talk of plans for a stable peace.

Every civilization must contend with an unconscious force which can block, betray, or countermand almost any conscious intention of the collectivity.

Movies are to our civilization what dreams and ideals are to individual lives: They express the mystery and help define the nature of who we are and what we are becoming.

You cannot organize civilization around the core of militarism and at the same time expect reason to control human destinies.

In the Atlantean civilization, law existed to create order, that is to say, to see justice was done. In the old way, the law was equal for all, not the strong win and the weak lose.

We are in the twilight of this earth. The societies and civilizations of human beings will not endure much longer because of their abuses of power.

When a civilization, a race, a people, a society, when they lack love, they are soon destroyed.

Civilization merely develops man's capacity for a greater variety of sensations, and ... absolutely nothing else.

If you see, in the spectrum of a planet host star, strange chemical elements, it can be a signal from a civilization which is there.

Cities are the crucible of civilization.

What we are confronted with now is a growing perception that if we desire a certain type of civilization and culture we must exterminate the sort of people who do not fit into it.

The problem with the press is that they can't tell the difference between a bicycle crash and the end of civilization.

A writer is justly called 'universal' when he is understood within the limits of his civilization, though that be bounded by a country or an age.

Almost as swiftly as he had imagined it, she had torn her clothes off, and when she flung them aside it was with that same magnificent gesture by which a whole civilization seemed to be annihilated.

Does the thoughtful man suppose that...the present experiment in civilization is the last world we will see?

Any government that chooses to be an ally of terror has also chosen to be an enemy of civilization.

Who cares about 17-21 year olds? Jack Myers does, and you should, too, if you want a front row seat on where the future of business and civilization is going.

Civilization in certain respects is as inadequate as it was a thousand years ago.

No country can reach a high stage of civilization without a leisure class.

A period of high civilization is one in which thoughts fly freely from mind to mind, from one country to another-yes, from the past into the present.

Over-civilization and barbarism are within an inch of each other. And a mark of both is the power of medicine-men.

The true savage is a slave, and is always talking about what he must do; the true civilised man is a free man, and is always talking about what he may do.

Imagine what things would be like if the news media actually sided with civilization.

Never had there been such an attempt to make conquest the servant of civilization. About keeping India there is no question. England has a real duty there.

The consensus is that climate change ranks along with nuclear warfare as the top two risks facing human civilization.

Civilization, after all, is defined by what we forbid, more than what we permit.

Let us get together with other people of our sort and make over the world into a great world-civilization that will enable us to realize the promises and avoid the dangers of this new time.

It is Hell, of course, that makes priests powerful, not Heaven, for after thousands of years of so-called civilization fear remains the one common denominator of mankind

Marriage is the basic building block of civilization. We are redefining it at our own peril.

If men were ever to lose the appetite for meaning we call thinking, they would lose the capacity for asking all the unanswerable questions upon which every civilization is founded.

My book had a universal theme. It's not a "racial" novel. It portrays an aspect of civilization, not necessarily Southern civilization.

Rousseau defined civilizations as when people build fences.

There is nothing more fragile than civilization.

We cannot be sure that we ought not to regard the most criminal country as that which in some aspects possesses the highest civilization.