Civilization Quotes

For the liberal state to accommodate a diversity of beliefs while having few positive convictions is one of the more admirable achievements of civilization.

Our flag is a proud flag, and it stands for liberty and civilization. Where it has once floated, there must be no return to tyranny.

The inventor tries to meet the demand of a crazy civilization.

Speech is civilization itself. The word, even the most contradictions word, preserves contact - it is silence which isolates.

We live in a world of crisis, of challenge, and ... it's in our galleries that we can unpack the civilizations that we're seeing the current manifestations of.

Civilization is an enormous device for economizing knowledge,.

The demands of unbounded individualism need to be weighed in the light of inherent social constraints which can only change their form but cannot be eliminated without eliminating civilization.

Anybody who knows something about the history of the human race knows that there is no civilization which has condoned homosexual marriage widely and openly that has long survived.

But the center can be a harmful place for one who has lived so long on the edge.... Normality is the Great Neurosis of civilization.

You are an ignorant schoolgirl. You think civilization is a good thing.

God established the family as the foundation of civilization.

The photograph [of Che Guevara], for a civilization now accustomed to thinking in images, was not the description of a single event... it was an argument.

Who are we to say what's right for civilizations that were already thousands of years old when our own nation came into being?

The same old hypocrisy. Life is a fight, and the strongest wins. All civilization does is hide the blood and cover up the hate with pretty words!

Civilization survives on the constant discovery of amity and an equal supply of damnation.

Human civilization has been no more than a strange luminescence growing more intense by the hour, of which no one can say when it will begin to wane and when it will fade away.

Had Greek civilization never existed ... we would never have become fully conscious.

Terrorism is a horrible thing that is the great threat to civilization on our planet.

There is nothing that sets a nation back as far in civilization as prosperity.

Preach the blessings of our deeply incorporated civilization by the mouths of our eight-inch guns.

The doctrine of a material hell in its effect was to chill and deaden the sympathies, predispose men to inflict suffering, and to retard the march of civilization.

You cannot force growth of human life and civilization, any more than you can force these slow-growing trees. That is the economy of Almighty God, that all good growth is slow growth.

Civilization is a disease which is almost invariably fatal.

[On golf:] One of the most distressing defects of civilization.

From the days of Weishaupt to those of Karl Marx... this world-wide conspiracy for the overthrow of civilization and for the reconstitution of society... has been steadily growing.

We created a thing called culture and civilization, and now we're about to lose it because we're trying to destroy everything. And I kind of miss it. I miss culture and civilization.

In China's thousands of years of civilization, the conflict between humankind and nature has never been as serious as it is today.

(When asked what he thought of Western civilization): 'I think it would be a good idea.

There is a great deal of ruin in a nation.

The human body is not necessarily a human being.

The old civilizations claimed that they were founded on love or justice. Ours is founded upon hatred. In our world there will be no emotions except fear, rage, triumph, and self-abasement.

Flushed with his impassioned gibberish, he saw himself standing alone on the last barrier of civilization.

The capitalists are the brains of civilization, because they supply the entire fabric of which all education, enlightenment and human progress consists.

But that's the whole aim of civilization: to make everything a source of enjoyment.

It is impossible to overlook the extent to which civilization is built up upon a renunciation of instinct....

Barbarians are all alike... sit up half the night to discuss anything a Roman says.

The life of the arts, far from being an interruption, a distraction, in the life of the nation, is close to the center of a nation's purpose - and is a test to the quality of a nation's civilization.

Thus the great civilizer sends out its emissaries, sooner or later, to every sandy cape and light-house of the New World which the census-taker visits, and summons the savage there to surrender.

This is the way the world ends Not with a bang but a whimper.

If you would civilize a man begin with his grandmother.

A sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.

The development of civilization was marked by constant changes. This will continue – therefore, the future will belong to people ready for change.

The more we humanize the society, the more we will become humans.

No civilization can thrive or survive if it refuses to adapt or change.

Civilization was a defense against nature’s raw power.

civilization is the very root cause of the woes of civilization

I am beginning to understand, " said the little prince. "There is a flower... I think that she has tamed me...

[N]ow we have a clearer idea what this story is all about: The world was made for man, and man was made to rule it.

This is precisely how someone speaks who imagines that he is the world's divinely appointed ruler: 'I will not LET them starve. I will not LET the drought come. I will not LET the river flood.

I speak gibberish to the civilized world and it replies in kind.