Civilization Quotes

It's women who have embraced their own sexuality, it's why women wear makeup, it's why they wear high heels. It's what civilization is all about.

The measure of a civilization is how it treats those at the dawn of life, the margins of life and the twilight of life.

The love of domination and an uncontrolled lust of arbitrary power have prevailed among all nations and perhaps in proportion to the degrees of civilization.

Art is like a border of flowers along the course of civilization.

There is a higher form of patriotism than nationalism, and that higher form is not limited by the boundaries of one's country; but by a duty to mankind to safeguard the trust of civilization.

we came to realize that a civilization which rode roughshod over the way of life of other peoples was incorporating evil in its own way of life.

In the most civilized and progressive countries freedom of discussion is recognized as a fundamental principle.

The price of civilization is instinctual renunciation.

Nations, like individuals, live and die; but civilization cannot die.

If there are no books. There is no civilization.

In the end what will happen will be what has happened whenever a civilization breaks up. The people who have brains and courage come through and the ones who haven't are winnowed out.

I trust the time is nigh when, with the universal assent of civilized people, all international differences shall be determined without resort to arms by the benignant processes of civilization.

Civilization, in the real sense of the term, consists not in the multiplication, but in the deliberate and voluntary reduction of wants.

A civilization in which there is not a continuous controversy about important issues is on the way to totalitarianism and death

I am well convinced that Aerial Navigation will form a most prominent feature in the progress of civilization.

For me, politeness is a sine qua non of civilization.

In the highest civilization the book is still the highest delight.

I do not think that any civilization can be called complete until it has progressed from sophistication to unsophistication, and made a conscious return to simplicity of thinking and living.

Labor is the fruit of civilization, not the basis of it.

The South creates the civilizations, the North conquers them, ruins them, borrows from them, spreads them: this is one summary of history.

She was so evidently the victim of the civilization which had produced her, that the links of her bracelet seemed like manacles chaining her to her fate.

People don't like the true and simple; they like fairy tales and humbug.

The last great struggle for our rights; the battle for our own civilization, is entirely with ourselves, and the problem is to be solved by us.

We don't understand the power of nature and the world because we don't live with it. Our environment is designed to sustain us. We are the domestic pets of a human zoo called civilization.

If the Aborigine drafted an I.Q. test, all of Western civilization would presumably flunk it.

Christianity is the very root and foundation of Western civilization.

One mind awake can become stronger than a thousand zombies sleepwalking in a dying civilization.

When humor go's, there go's civilization.

How a society treats its disabled is the true measure of a civilization.

The West may collapse very suddenly. Complex civilizations do that, because they operate, most of the time, on the edge of chaos.

In essence the Renaissance was simply the green end of one of civilization's hardest winters.

To correct the evils, great and small, which spring from want of sympathy and from positive enmity among strangers, as nations or as individuals, is one of the highest functions of civilization.

Our most intimate contact with civilizations long since dust has been through the art which has survived them.

We made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends.

I think fundamentalism is this radical attitude toward one's own identity and civilization as compared to other people's identities and cultures.

A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization.

Civilization is sterilization.

Civilization is what makes you sick.

In civilizations without boats, dreams dry up, espionage takes the place of adventure and the police take the place of pirates.

There's never been a civilization, ever in history, that has embraced homosexuality and turned away from traditional fidelity and traditional marriage, traditional child rearing, and has survived.

I think the first prerequisite to civilization is an ability to make polite conversation.

The quantity of civilization is measured by the quality of imagination.

Civility isn't just some optional value in a multicultural, multistate democratic republic. Civility is the key to civilization.

How idiotic civilization is! Why be given a body if you have to keep it shut up in a case like a rare, rare fiddle?

I think of myself as a kind of reporter; I report on the nature of certain events. I think of art as a report on civilization at a certain time.

The soul of a civilization is its religion, and it dies with its faith.

We look to Scotland for all our ideas of civilisation.

To be a man is to feel that one's own stone contributes to building the edifice of the world.

Access to knowledge is the superb, the supreme act of truly great civilizations. Of all the institutions that purport to do this, free libraries stand virtually alone in accomplishing this mission.

Dining is the privilege of civilization. . . . The nation which knows how to dine has learnt the leading lesson of progress.