Civilization Quotes

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And it came to me as I stood on the desert sand, looking at the Great Pyramid, that what any civilization says about God tells us more about that civilization than it does about God.

The day when two army corps can annihilate each other in one second, all civilized nations, it is to be hoped, will recoil from war and discharge their troops.

the veneer of civilization is exceedingly thin

He realized that the ritualized world he had dismissed as feminine was in fact civilization.

Since the same human mire remains beneath, does not all civilisation reduce itself to the superiority of smelling nice and living well?

There is no cure for madness except the madness as the cure.

The human race has improved everything except the human race.

A civilized society is one that exhibits the five qualities of truth beauty adventure art and peace.

We are in the first age since the dawn of civilization in which people have dared to think it practicable to make the benefits of civilization available to the whole human race.

Let us humour if we can The vertical man Though we value none But the horizontal one.

To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization.

Civilization is just a slow process of learning to be kind.

Civilization is a movement - not a condition a voyage - not a harbour.

Civilizations die from philosophical calm irony and the sense of fair play quite as surely as they die of debauchery.

The three great elements of modern civilization Gunpowder Printing and the Protestant Religion.

Nations like individuals live and die but civilization cannot die.

Civilization is a movement and not a condition a voyage and not a harbor.

There are ruins all over the world, testaments of the atrocities, and burial chambers of the lost souls. But the facts are always misinterpreted. History is inaccurate.

What lies beneath has pushed its way to the surface once again. Time to get away while there is still air left in our lungs.

Before language, cavemen simply grunted, and then they used the club. Communication changed that. It's the mechanism that created civilization and prevents its own destruction.

The test of civilization is its estimate of women.

In the cold, shivering twilight, preceding the daybreak of civilization, the dominating emotion of man was fear.

Human civilization as we know it is like the Titanic headed for the iceberg, whether the iceberg be nuclear, environmental or terrorism-related.