Civilization Civilization Quotes

One must not judge everyone in the world by his qualities as a soldier: otherwise we should have no civilization. ~ Erwin Rommel

Liberty is a luxury of security; the free individual is a product and a mark of civilization. ~ Will Durant

Like our bodies and our desires, the machines we have devised are possessed of a heart which is slowly reduced to embers. From the earliest times, human civilization has been no more than a strange luminescence growing more intense by the hour, of which no one can say when it will begin to wane and when it will fade away. ~ W.G. Sebald

The charms of seclusion are seldom combined with the conveniences of civilization. ~ Ethel Smyth

The farmers are the founders of civilization. ~ Daniel Webster

The Jews always complained, kvetching about false gods, and erected the
biggest false God, Jehovah, in middle of western civilization. ~ Allen Ginsberg

You will find liberals always rooting for savages against civilization. ~ Ann Coulter

The inclination to aggression constitutes the greatest impediment to civilization. ~ Sigmund Freud

No community has ever yet passed beyond the initial phases in which its pugnacity and fanaticism enabled it to found a nation, and its cupidity to establish and develop a commercial civilization. ~ George Bernard Shaw

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

Survival must come before civilization. ~ Lois Wyse

I once heard the survivors of a colony of ants that had been partially obliterated by a cow's foot seriously debating the intention of the gods towards their civilization. ~ Don Marquis

Marketing is about spreading ideas, and spreading ideas is the single most important output of our civilization. ~ Seth

If I had to fault President [Barack] Obama, I would say that sometimes governs like a visitor from a morally superior civilization. ~ David Brooks

Is one of the fairest portions of the globe to remain in a state of nature, the haunt of a few wretched savages, when it seems destined by the Creator to give support to a large population and to be the seat of civilization? ~ William Henry Harrison

The African tribesman, with his complete contempt for truth and his emphasis on brutality and savagery for others but not for himself, is a no-civilization. ~ L. Ron Hubbard

The solution to women's issues can only be achieved in a free and democratic society in which human energy is liberated, the energy of both women and men together. Our civilization is called human civilization and is not attributed only to men or women. ~ Tawakkol Karman

The sentence is the greatest human invention of civilization. ~ John Banville

No civilization can thrive or survive if it refuses to adapt or change. ~ Debasish Mridha

The yearning after equality [in economic outcome] is the offspring of envy and covetousness, and there is no possible plan for satisfying that yearning which can do aught else than rob A to give to B; consequently all such plans nourish some of the meanest vices of human nature, waste capital, and overthrow civilization. ~ William Graham Sumner

A higher standard of living also brings about a higher standard of culture and civilization. ~ Ludwig Von Mises

He realized that the ritualized world he had dismissed as feminine was in fact civilization. ~ Wilson Rawls

We should lay aside every hindrance and endeavour by uniting the whole force and spirit of our people to raise again a great British nation standing up before all the world; for such a nation, rising in its ancient vigour, can even at this hour save civilization. ~ Winston Churchill

I believe empathy is the most essential quality of civilization. ~ Roger Ebert

Handwriting enables civilization. ~ Toba Beta

A tablecloth restaurant is still one of the great rewards of civilization. ~ Harry Golden

That's what painting does; it organizes vision in a certain way or suggests that certain things be paid attention to and certain other things not be paid attention to. It functions in that way to a certain extent in our civilization. ~ Jasper Johns

An immaterial but visible being that inhabited the air when the air was an element and before it was fatally polluted with factory smoke, sewer gas and similar products of civilization. ~ Ambrose Bierce

Interlibrary loans are a wonder of the world and a glory of civilization. ~ Jo Walton

Once we allow ourselves to be disobedient to the test of an accountant's profit, we have begun to change our civilization. ~ John Maynard Keynes

Poets are the leaven in the lump of civilization. ~ Elizabeth Janeway

What about Christianity? Are we right in the face of so long a record of its poverty in international achievement, to keep invoking it as a standard, almost synonymous with civilization? ~ Rose Macaulay

In Kali yuga, whole atmosphere is surcharged with faithlessness, Material sense gratification is standard of civilization. ~ Radhanath Swami

The whole civilized world runs on trust - people trust journalists to provide accurate information, doctors to provide accurate treatment, scientists to provide accurate answers and solutions to unanswered questions and unsolved problems, pilots to provide safe and fast air transportation, and so on. So, the integrity of the civilized world is predicated on the integrity of the individual in their chosen field of work. Upon their sense of responsibility depends the healthy functioning of an entire species. ~ Abhijit Naskar

There is as yet no civilized society, but only a society in the process of becoming civilized. There is as yet no civilized nation, but only nations in the process of becoming civilized. From this standpoint, we can now speak of a collective task of humankind. The task of humanity is to build a genuine civilization. ~ Felix Adler

I'd like - inviting aliens and have them observe what we do because so much of what we do that we take for granted will just be weird or extraordinary or just plain dumb when observed by an alien from another civilization. ~ Neil DeGrasse Tyson

To serve Armenia is to serve civilization. ~ William E. Gladstone

What I tell you three times is true. What I tell you three million times is civilization. ~ Mark Pesce

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. ~ Chester A. Arthur

Maybe we're about to radically change the operating system of the human condition. If so, then this would be a really good time to make backups of our civilization. ~ Bruce Sterling

Revolution is the larva of civilization. ~ Victor Hugo

We created a thing called culture and civilization, and now we're about to lose it because we're trying to destroy everything. And I kind of miss it. I miss culture and civilization. ~ Yoko Ono

Liberty built civilization. It can rebuild civilization. ~ Ron Paul

We must remember that any oppression, any injustice, any hatred, is a wedge designed to attack our civilization. ~ Franklin D. Roosevelt

Adoration is a sign of an infant civilization. ~ Toba Beta

Are some free fonts a gift to humanity rather than a blight on typographic civilization ? ~ Ellen Lupton

If we built houses the way we build software, the first woodpecker to come along would destroy civilization. ~ Clifford Stoll

I cannot think who my residents hurt but how I can give them tools to remain on the right side of civilization. ~ Thomm Quackenbush

Is a planetary surface the right place for an expanding technological civilization? ~ Gerard K. O'Neill

When humor goes, there goes civilization. ~ Erma Bombeck

Society turns away from the aged worker as though he belonged to another species. That is why the whole question is buried in a conspiracy of silence. Old age exposes the failure of our entire civilization. ~ Simone De Beauvoir

Human history began as an act of disobedience, and it is not unlikely that it will be terminated by an act of obedience. At this point in history the capacity to doubt, to criticize and to disobey may be all that stands between a future for mankind and the end of civilization. ~ Erich Fromm

Health is the fastest growing failing business in western civilization. ~ E. Cheraskin

Historical capitalism is a materialist civilization. ~ Immanuel Wallerstein

My Swaraj is to keep intact the genius of our civilization. ~ Mahatma Gandhi

Good soldiers, bad officers; however don't forget that without them we would not have any Civilization. ~ Erwin Rommel

Transcendence gets you beyond ego. If you go beyond ego, you see all of this in a more decent perspective and you can start to put all the pieces together. We haven't done that yet. Not as a civilization. ~ Edgar Mitchell

The longer I live and the more I study the question, the more I am convinced that it is not so much the problem of what you will do with Negro, as what the Negro will do with you and your 'civilization'. ~ Booker T. Washington

...any attempt to define the characteristics of modern society is akin to defining the color of a chameleon. ~ Yuval Noah Harari

Learning is nothing without cultivated manners, but when the two are combined in a woman, you have one of the most exquisite products of civilization. ~ Andre Maurois

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

The consensus is clear. We need an immediate and determined shift to a clean, renewable economy. The continued mass burning of fossil fuels is inconsistent with a healthy, prosperous future for our civilization. ~ Al Gore

Cities are the least permanent things in our civilization. ~ Reynolds Price

But, for myself, the Earth's records had taught me to look for widest ruin as the price of highest civilization. ~ Edgar Allan Poe

Some people die before their time so that others can live. It's a cornerstone of civilization. ~ John Malkovich

The sovereign state has in our times become a lethal danger to human civilization because technical developments enable it to employ an infinite number and variety of means of destruction. ~ Christian Lous Lange

There has never yet been a human society worthy of the name of civilization. Civilization remains a remote ideal. ~ Edward Abbey

Simplicity is the peak of civilization. ~ Henry David Thoreau

We argue with our biology, and the result of that argument is civilization. ~ Charles Siebert

Liberty is the condition of progress. Without Liberty, there remains only barbarism. Without Liberty, there can be no civilization. ~ Robert Green Ingersoll

There is nothing more savage than modern civilization. ~ Bryant McGill

And what we're looking toward is a moment when the artificial language structures which bind us within the notion of ourselves are dissolved in the presence of the realization that we are a part of nature. And when that happens, the childhood of our species will pass away, and we will stand tremulously on the brink of really the first moment of coherent human civilization. ~ Terence McKenna

Civilization was a defense against nature's raw power. ~ Gregory Benford

The sole precoccupation of this learned society was the destruction of humanity for philanthropic reasons and the perfection of weapons as instruments of civilization. ~ Jules Verne

All of us confront limits of body, talent, temperament. But that is not all. We are, all of us, also constrained by our time, our place, our civilization. ~ Jeane Kirkpatrick

The taming and domestication of religion is one of the unceasing chores of civilization. ~ Christopher Hitchens

The family is the nucleus of civilization. ~ Will Durant

Specialization is the great evil of civilization. ~ Wendell Berry

NOISE, n. A stench in the ear. Undomesticated music. The chief product and authenticating sign of civilization. ~ Ambrose Bierce

I believe that without strict enforcement of penalties for any offence violating the principles of truth and honesty, Nigeria and Africa will not be able to move from our present state of underdevelopment into civilization. ~ Sunday Adelaja