Civilization Quotes
Nihilism is a natural consequence of a culture (or civilization) ruled and regulated by categories that mask manipulation, mastery and domination of peoples and nature.
It will take a long time, and certainly the West will remain the dominant civilization well into the next century, but the decline is occurring.
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.
The world no longer has a choice between force and law; if civilization is to survive, it must choose the rule of law.
It is so stupid of modern civilization to have given up believing in the devil when he is the only explanation of it.
As long as you have war, police, prisons, crime, you are in the early stages of civilization.
The concept of conservation is a far truer sign of civilization than that spoilation of a continent which we once confused with progress.
The greatest problem for the human species, the solution of which nature compels him to seek, is that of attaining a civil society which can administer justice universally.
I do not believe that civilizations have to die because civilization is not an organism. It is a product of wills.
John Stockton is one of the true marvels, not just of basketball, or in America, but in the history of Western Civilization!
I would have been dead if it weren't for that great gift to civilization from the Chemistry Department of Harvard, which was napalm, or sticky jellied gasoline.
There were 5 Exabytes of information created between the dawn of civilization through 2003, but that much information is now created every 2 days.
No university in the world has ever risen to greatness without a correspondingly great library... When this is no longer true, then will our civilization have come to an end.
Planet Earth, creation, the world in which civilization developed, the world with climate patterns that we know and stable shorelines, is in imminent peril.
On one side, the forces of destruction, the forces of the desert, have risen, and on the other hand stand firm the forces of civilization, but we will not be stopped.
Of all the works of civilization that interfere with the natural water distribution system, irrigation has been by far the most pervasive and powerful.
While the farmer holds the title to the land, actually, it belongs to all the people because civilization itself rests upon the soil.
The disastrous feature of our civilization is that it is far more developed materially than spiritually. Its balance is disturbed.
Fear of change is a part of the state of fear man has ever lived in but out of which he has begun to escape. Civilization might be defined indeed as the steps in his escape.
The writer in western civilization has become not a voice of his tribe, but of his individuality. This is a very narrow-minded situation.
I do believe that the future of civilization belongs to those who would lay emphasis on working together instead of talking about clash of civilizations.
The internet, our greatest tool of emancipation, has been transformed into the most dangerous facilitator of totalitarianism we have ever seen. The internet is a threat to human civilization.
To one who believes that really good industrial conditions are the hope for a machine civilization, nothing is more heartening than to watch conference methods and education replacing police methods
When people come to play music as they do to play bridge, civilization will have taken the longest stride forward since the beginning of time.
If modern civilization man had to kill the animals he eats, the number of vegetarians would rise astronomically.
Taken over the centuries, scientific ideas have exerted a force on our civilization fully as great as the more tangible practical applications of scientific research.
Our civilization depends critically on software, and we have a dangerously low degree of professionalism in the computer fields
I reject the idea that there is some sort of existential "clash of civilizations." I am an interventionist, but not a militarist. War should always be a last resort.
The measure of a civilization is how it treats those at the dawn of life, the margins of life and the twilight of life.
In Indian civilization I am a Baptist, because I believe in immersing the Indians in our civilization and when we get them under holding them there until they are thoroughly soaked.
War is one of the constants of history, and it has not diminished with civilization or democracy.
Is Islam a religion of peace? I'm sure for some of the practitioners, but it's been hijacked by people who have an ideology that wants to destroy western civilization, and they're barbarians.
I am apt to suspect the Negroes to be naturally inferior to the Whites. There scarcely ever was a civilization of their complexion, nor even any individual, eminent either in action or speculation.
The destruction that barbarians leave behind has a grim fascination, doesn't it? We're reminded how thin is the veneer of civilization.
The entire world economy rests on the consumer; if he ever stops spending money he doesn't have on things he doesn't need -- we're done for.
I speak of the current civilization and I consider her not as a symbol but as victim-victim, really, of the commercialization, of the falsification of this real world. That is my theme.