Civilization Quotes
The seeds of civilization are in every culture, but it is city life that brings them to fruition.
In our civilization, men are afraid that they will not be men enough and women are afraid that they might be considered only women.
It is insane that two men, sitting on opposite sides of the world, should be able to decide to bring an end to civilization.
The first light of human consciousness and the world's first civilizations were in Africa.
As civilization advances, the sense of wonder declines. Such decline is an alarming symptom of our state of mind. Mankind will not perish for want of information; but only for want of appreciation.
The boundary between civilization and barbarism is difficult to draw: put one ring in your nose and you are a savage, put two rings in your ears and you are civilized.
The downfall of every civilization comes, not from the moral corruption of the common man, but rather from the moral complacency of common men in high places.
Everywhere in the world the industrial regime tends to make the unorganized or unorganizable individual, the pauper, into the victim of a kind of human sacrifice offered to the gods of civilization.
I've been asked about UFOs and I've said publicly I thought they were somebody else, some other civilization.
In the twenty-first century, the robot will take the place which slave labor occupied in ancient civilization.
The careful student of history will discover that Christianity has been of very little value in advancing civilization, but has done a great deal toward retarding it.
Barbarianism is the natural state of mankind. Civilization is unnatural. It is the whim of circumstance. And barbarianism must ultimately triumph
The most enduring contributions made to civilization have not been made by brawn, they have been made by brain.
To be thoroughly lazy is a tough job, but somebody has to do it. Industrious people build industry. Lazy people build civilization.
America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization.
Life cannot be calculated. That's the big mistake our civilization made. We never accepted that randomness is not a mistake in the equation -- it is part of the equation.
A country in which the people are not healthy physically and psychologically, are poorly educated and illiterate, will never rise to the peaks of world civilization.
Civilization is a social plague on the planet, and vices are just as necessary to it as is a virus to disease.
America didn’t bypass or escape civilization. It did something far more profound, far cleverer: it simply changed what civilization could be.
When kids look up to great scientists the way they do to great musicians and actors, civilization will jump to the next level
What civilization is, is 6 billion people trying to make themselves happy by standing on each other's shoulders and kicking each other's teeth in. It's not a pleasant situation.
We may get to the point where the only way of saving the world will be for industrial civilization to collapse.
K is for "Kenghis Khan"; He was a very nice person. History has no record of him. There is a moral in that, somewhere.
Civilization means, above all, an unwillingness to inflict unnecessary pain ... those of us who heedlessly accept the commands of authority cannot yet claim to be civilized men.
A modern and humane civilization must control conception or sink into barbaric cruelty to individuals.
Isn't the only hope for the planet that the industrialized civilizations collapse? Isn't it our responsibility to bring this about?
specialists without spirit, sensualists without heart; this nullity imagines that it has attained a level of civilization never before achieved.
Wilderness itself is the basis of all our civilization. I wonder if we have enough reverence for life to concede to wilderness the right to live on?
The future is in your hearts and in your hands. God is entrusting to you the task, at once difficult and uplifting, of working with Him in the building of the civilization of love.
No civilization is complete which does not include the dumb and defenseless of God's creatures within the sphere of charity and mercy.
In God's wildness lies the hope of the world-the great fresh unblighted, unredeemed wilderness. The galling harness of civilization drops off, and wounds heal ere we are aware.
If civilization had been left in female hands we would still be living in grass huts.
My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!
We are not on the way to greater individualism, but are becoming an increasingly manipulated mass civilization.
The story of civilization is, in a sense, the story of engineering-that long and arduous struggle to make the forces of nature work for man's good.
The political technology of the Industrial age is no longer appropriate technology for the new civilization taking form around us. Our politics are obsolete.
Zoo is an artificial territory, an approximation. Civilization is our natural territory.
For it is my opinion that we enclose and celebrate the freaks of our nation and our civilization. Yellowstone National Park is no more representative of America than is Disneyland.
Good soldiers, bad officers; however don't forget that without them we would not have any Civilization.
Government should uphold-and not undermine-those institutions which are custodians of the very values upon which civilization is founded: religion, education and, above all, family.
