Civilization Quotes

India is a civilization where the principle and philosophy of sacrifice is ingrained as part of our upbringing.

...the first sign of civilization is always trash.

I think the material that inspires artists is the fabric of the soul of civilization.

It is in the best interests of civilization and our economy and our nation to understand what objective truths are as revealed by the methods and tools of science.

Gingrich - primary mission Advocate of civilization Definer of civilization Teacher of the Rules of Civilization... Leader (Possibly) of the civilizing forces...

Heterosexual marriage is the heart of our civilization.

Compassion isn't a sign of weakness, but a mark of civilization.

The sense of a long last night over civilization is back again; it has perhaps not been here so intensely in thirty years, not since the Nazis were prospering, but it is coming back.

On Mars, the crumbling remains of ancient civilizations may be found, mutely testifying to the one-time glory of a dying world.

Civilization is an enormous improvement on the lack thereof.

The transaction between writer and reader is human civilization's most dazzling feat, yet it's such a part of our lives that it's, well, prosaic.

We civilizations now know ourselves mortal.

While he was alive Peter Jennings did considerable damage to the cause of civilization and human deceny [sic] by his sympathy for Jew-hating terrorists and their supporters.

A warming of this magnitude would risk the end of civilization as we know it by the end of this century.

Civilization is to groups what intelligence is to individuals. It is a means of combining the intelligence of many to achieve ongoing group adaptation.

There were centuries when civilization had no theater.

The test of civilization is the power of drawing the most benefit out of cities.

What is civilization? I answer, the power of good women.

Emancipation is the demand of civilization. That is a principle; everything else is an intrigue.

People here always said to me, Why would you leave civilization to go to a place like Fiji? Fiji is a far more civilized place than California or New York City.

It is not funny that a man should be killed, but it is sometimes funny that he should be killed for so little, and that his death should be the coin of what we call civilization.

Women know the damnation of charity because the habit of civilization has always been to throw them cheap alms rather than give them good wages.

Hatred of domestic work is a natural and admirable result of civilization.

Is Europe a home for an alliance of civilizations or is it a Christian club? If the former is true, then Turkey should be part of it.

Civilization depends upon the vigorous pursuit of the highest values by people who are intelligent enough to know that their values are qualified by their interests and corrupted by their prejudices.

... each type of civilization has had diseases peculiar to it and at each period the various social groups in any community also have differed in this regard.

Library Science is the key to all science, just as mathematics is its language - and civilization will rise or fall, depending on how well librarians do their jobs.

In the hill country, civilization steals in last, and the people retain much of the crude but vigorous mode of expression of the colonial days and earlier.

Liberty is the condition of progress. Without Liberty, there remains only barbarism. Without Liberty, there can be no civilization.

Civilization has gotten further and further from the so-called 'natural' man, who uses all his faculties: perception, invention, improvisation.

It should not surprise us that there must be other civilizations in our galaxy and throughout the entire universe.

The physician...is the flower (such as it is) of our civilization.

the position of women, that sad and well-nigh universal blot on civilizations, was never far from her mind.

what about Christianity? Are we right in the face of so long a record of its poverty in international achievement, to keep invoking it as a standard, almost synonymous with civilization?

I am interested in climate change and other topics too. But this thing is so huge, in the worst case we are talking about the end of our civilization.

Ten thousand years of civilization shed in an instant when you put a woman behind the wheel of a car.

Fundamentalist tendencies and movements existed, so far as I know, in all societies and civilizations.

We're a planet of nearly six billion ninnies living in a civilization that was designed by a few thousand amazingly smart deviants.

Maybe they didn't want you to realize that every civilization has its weakness. There's always one thing we depend on. And if someone takes it away all that's left is some story in a history class.

Throughout its history, Islam has borrowed and adapted from other civilizations, both ancient and modern.

Human rights is the fruit of various civilizations.

Civilization runs a greater risk if we maintain our present attitude to religion than if we give it up.

The whole of our civilization is founded on specialization, which implies the enslavement of those who execute to those who coordinate.

The only true hope for civilization-the conviction of the individual that his inner life can affect outward events and that, whether or not he does so he is responsible for them.

Civilization’s shortening attention span is mismatched with the pace of environmental problems.

Everything we have of value as human beings - as a civilization - is the result of our intelligence.

Everything progresses in waves. The march of civilization, the progression of worlds, is in waves. All human activities likewise progress in waves - art, literature, science, religion.

This unique strategy that the advanced primates created, the strategy of using language to bind time, is what the process we call 'civilization' has been all about.

The psychedelic experience is not a journey into the human unconscious, or into the ghost bards of our human civilization. It's a journey into the presence of the Gaian mind.

The main thing going on in the 20th century is a dissolving of boundaries, all the boundaries that historical civilization put in place.