Civilization Quotes

In a dying civilization, political prestige is the reward not of the shrewdest diagnostician, but of the man with the best bedside manner.

A hermit is simply a person to whom civilization has failed to adjust itself.

The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards

Security, the chief pretense of civilization, cannot exist where the worst of dangers, the danger of poverty, hangs over everyone's head.

I think the theatre is as essential to civilization as safe, pure water.

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.

Civilization exists precisely so that there may be no masses but rather men alert enough never to constitute masses.

A pioneer destroys things and calls it civilization.

Each new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little barbarians, who must be civilized before it is too late.

Go to work! Go to work in the morn of a new creation... until you have... reached the height of self-progress, and from that pinnacle bestow upon the world a civilization of your own.

Every advance in civilization has been denounced as unnatural while it was recent

The measure of a civilization is in the courage, not of its soldiers, but of its bystanders.

Civilization consists in the multiplication and refinement of human wants.

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

What do I consider a teacher should be? One who breathes life into knowledge so that it takes new form in progress and civilization.

Civilization is not by means an easy thing to attain to. There are only two ways by which man can reach it. One is by being cultured, the other by being corrupt.

The bureaucracy is expanding to meet the needs of the expanding bureaucracy.

Civilization is nothing more than the effort to reduce the use of force to the last resort.

Civilization itself is housed in the human being.

Art is the response of the living to life. It is therefore the record left behind by civilization.

Listen, I have been educated. I have learned about Western Civilization. Do you know What the message of Western Civilization is? I am alone.

Ideas are the factors that lift civilization. They create revolutions. There is more dynamite in an idea than in many bombs.

The most striking contradiction of our civilization is the fundamental reverence for truth which we profess and the thorough-going disregard for it which we practice.

No matter what we call it, poison is still poison, death is still death, and industrial civilization is still causing the greatest mass extinction in the history of the planet.

A higher standard of living also brings about a higher standard of culture and civilization.

Human civilization is not something achieved against nature; it is rather the outcome of the working of the innate qualities of man.

What feminism calls patriarchy is simply civilization , an abstract system designed by men but augmented and now co-owned by women.

The glossy surface of our civilization hides a real intellectual decadence.

We have before us the glorious opportunity to inject a new dimension of love into the veins of our civilization.

The true test of civilization is not the census, nor the size of cities, nor the crops - no, but the kind of man the country turns out.

In the midst of our applauding the feats of civilization, the Bible flings itself like a knife slashing our complacency; remind us that God, too, has a voice in history.

The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization.

Civilization is paralysis.

Death has always been the first sign of European civilization when introduced in the Pacific.

Real freedom lies in wildness, not in civilization.

If the Earth gets hit by an asteroid, it's game over. It's control-alt-delete for civilization.

Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization.

If a test of civilization be sought, none can be so sure as the condition of that half of society over which the other half has power.

Wherever an altar is found, there civilization exists.

The moral development of a civilization is measured by the breadth of its sense of community.

Simple practices like conscious breathing and smiling are very important. They can change our civilization.

A slight daily unconscious luxury is hardly ever wanting to the dwellers in civilization; like the gentle air of a genial climate, it is a perpetual minute enjoyment.

Science?is so greatly opposed to history and tradition that it cannot be absorbed by our civilization.

Muslims stand by their religion entirely. It is a sort of religious absolutism. While Europeans have stopped defending the values of their civilization. They confuse tolerance with relativism.

The English think soap is civilization.

[To the South African parliament:] I do not know why we equate - and with the examples before us - a white skin with civilization.

... it is a matter of civilizing everyone or not being civilized at all: the decay has always come from a partial civilization.

Health is the fastest growing failing business in western civilization.

Would a NASA reality show "Lunar Shore" be more popular than "Jersey Shore?" Civilization's future depends on that answer.

Every civilization sees itself as the center of the world and writes its history as the central drama of human history.