Civilization Quotes

A civilization has the ethics it can afford

Civilization is the art of creating useless needs.

But that's just the aim of civilization - to make everything a source of enjoyment.

Despite all the progress of civilization, women have remained exactly as they emerged from the hand of Nature.

It's very difficult to marry into another civilization.

War is a specific product of civilization.

In an automobile civilization, which was one of constant motion and activity, there was almost no time to think; in a television one, there is small desire.

Politics is the art of making civilization work.

Perhaps the two most valuable and satisfactory products of American civilization are the librarian on the one hand and the cocktail in the other.

each generation devises better ways to survive. Civilization may, in one sense, be a tribute to the ingeniousness of some children in outwitting parents.

The history of America is the history of a genocide that didn't end yet, the genocide of American civilizations.

The debris of civilization litters the landscapes and spoils the beaches. Conservation's concerns now is not only for man's enjoyment-but for man's survival.

Before the Greeks were the Tamils. The Tamils are one of the oldest civilizations thats still surviving.

The study of history, it seems to me, leads to the conviction that all important events tend toward the same end - the civilization of mankind.

A civilization based on nonviolence must be different from that organized for violence.

I think it would be an excellent idea.

Civilization is not an incurable disease, but it should never be forgotten that the English people are at present afflicted by it.

Civilizations have come and gone and, in spite of our vaunted progress, I am tempted to ask again and again, 'To what purpose?'

Civilization is that mode of conduct which points out to man the path of duty.

This civilization is such that one has only to be patient and it will be self-destroyed.

Is a civilization worth the name, which requires, for its existence the very doubtful prop of a racial legislation and a lynch law?

Modern civilization has taught us to convert night into day and golden silence into brazen din and noise.

Further march of civilization seems to employ increasing domination of man over beast, together with a growingly humane method of using them.

Our non-co-operation is with the system the English have established in India, with the material civilization and its attendant greed and exploitation of the weak.

My Swaraj is to keep intact the genius of our civilization.

The British Government in India constitutes a struggle between modern civilization, which is the Kingdom of Satan, and the ancient civilization, which is the Kingdom of God.

Because our civilization is woven of so many diverse strands, the ideas which any one group accepts will be found to contain numerous contradictions.

We need to shift from an economic to a humanitarian organizing principle for human civilization. And women, en masse, should be saying so.

Everybody should be able to choose according to his own values and history, within a European civilization that we all belong to.

I'm not trying to write a bleak and blistering screed against American civilization. I'm writing something that I hope is fun and satirical and full of possibility.

Difference between savage and civilized man: one is painted, the other gilded.

The peoples furthest from civilization are the ones where equality between man and woman are furthest apart-and we consider this one of the signs of savagery.

Civilization largely consists in hiding human nature. When the barbarian learns to hide it we account him enlightened.

The only very marked difference between the average civilized man and the average savage is that the one is gilded and the other is painted.

A mother can legitimately be said to 'have a baby' - but in a civilization such as ours, she can never claim to own a teenager.

In a culture that gives men irresponsible power and women powerless responsibility, the advancement of civilization cannot be a serious goal.

In the last analysis civilization itself is measured by the way in which children will live and what chance they will have in the world

History has been conceived--and with high justification in the records--as the human struggle for civilization against barbarism in different ages and places, from the beginning of human societies.

I zoomed in on the shoe department like a blonde homing pigeon. Shoes, shoes everywhere! Ah, sweet shoes. I truly think you can take the measure of a civilization by looking at its footwear.

Civilization creates discontents; barbarism creates quick endings.

English civilization the humanizing, the bringing into one harmonious and truly humane life, of the whole body of English society that is what interests me.

Every mob, in its ignorance and blindness and bewilderment, is a League of Frightened Men that seeks reassurance in collective action.

China is a civilization pretending to be a nation.

Without fathers you would have no civilization.

I am much afraid that we shall have very greatly hastened the decline and ruin of the New World by our contagion, and that we willhave sold it our opinions and our arts very dear.

Well, you know, in the fundamentalist milieu of the Afrikaners, there was a sense that they were a chosen people, that they were bringing civilization to the blacks.

Civilization does everything for the mind and favors it entirely at the expense of the body.

Practical dreamers have always been and always will be the pattern-makers of civilization.

You may as well know, also, that every great leader, from the dawn of civilization down to the present, was a dreamer.

India is a civilization with a history that is thousands of years old.The diversity of India, of our civilization, is actually a thing of beauty, which is something we are extremely proud of.