Civilization Quotes
In the highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight. He who has once known its satisfactions is provided with a resource against calamity.
If civilization has risen from the Stone Age, it can rise again from the Wastepaper Age.
Deception is a developed art of civilization and the most potent weapon in the game of power
The destiny of world civilization depends upon providing a decent standard of living for all mankind.
When blacks are left entirely to their own devices, Western civilization - any kind of civilization - disappears.
Man must be able to escape civilization if he is to survive. Some of his greatest needs are for refuges and retreats where he can recapture for a day or a week the primitive conditions of life.
One might say that science itself, and civilization and art, are all about different orderings of the world - to contain it, and to make it in some sense intelligible, communicable. And bearable.
The survival of the United States of America as we know it is at risk. And even more — if more should be required — the future of human civilization is at stake.
The Christian theory of the sacredness of the Bible has been at the cost of the world's civilization.
Classes struggle, some classes triumph, others are eliminated. Such is history; such is the history of civilization for thousands of years.
There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations, cultures, arts, civilizations--these are mortal, and their life is to ours as the life of a gnat.
"The making of peace is a continuing process that must go on from day to day, from year to year, so long as our civilization shall last."
Teachers must be celebrated for moving civilization from ignorance to enlightenment, from apathy to responsibility.
If we wish our civilization to survive we must break with the habit of deference to great men.
My goal in life is to change the entire social and economic structure of western civilization, to make it a feminist world.
Civilization and the life of nations are governed by the same laws as prevail throughout nature and organic life.
No civilization other than that which is Christian, is worth seeking or possessing.
One of the great dreams of man must be to find some place between the extremes of nature and civilization where it is possible to live without regret.
Man cannot pretend to be higher in ethics, spirituality, advancement, or civilization than other creatures and at the same time live by lower standards than the vulture or hyena.
On a group of theories one can found a school; but on a group of values one can found a culture, a civilization, a new way of living together among men.
The family dinner table is the cornerstone of civilization and those who 'graze' from refrigerators or in front of the television sets are doomed to remain in a state of savagery.
Well, we can't afford blindness anymore. There are tens of thousands of thugs who loathe liberty and love death, and want to annihilate Western civilization.
The true civilization is where every man gives to every other every right that he claims for himself.
The sole precoccupation of this learned society was the destruction of humanity for philanthropic reasons and the perfection of weapons as instruments of civilization.
I saw someone peeing in Jermym Street the other day. I thought, is this the end of civilization as we know it? Or is it simply someone peeing in Jermyn Street?
The truth is, our civilization is not Christian; it is a tragic compound of great ideal and fearful practice, of loving charity and fearful clutching of possessions.
Babies who have not yet been taught to speak any language are the only race of the earth, the race of man: all the rest is pretence, what we call civilization, hatred, fear, desire for strength.
In Antarctica you get to know people so well that in comparison you do not seem to know the people in civilization at all.
Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years.
Civilization has made man, if not always more bloodthirsty, at least more viciously, more horribly bloodthirsty.
We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology.
The personal life of every individual is based on secrecy, and perhaps it is partly for that reason that civilized man is so nervously anxious that personal privacy should be respected.
The luxuries of civilization satisfy only those wants which they themselves create.
A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values.
From India to Spain, the brilliant civilization of Islam flourished. What was lost to christendom at this time was not lost to civilization, but quite the contrary.
People have separated from each other with walls of concrete that blocked the roads to connection and love. and Nature has been defeated in the name of development.
The concept of conservation is a far truer sign of civilization than that spoilation of a continent which we once confused with progress.
My tendency to idealize Western civilization arises from my nationalistic desire to use the West in order to reform China. But this has led me to overlook the flaws of Western culture.
As long as you have war, police, prisons, crime, you are in the early stages of civilization.
It is so stupid of modern civilization to have given up believing in the devil when he is the only explanation of it.