Civilization Quotes
Against the dark background of this contemporary civilization of well-being, even the arts tend to mingle, to lose their identity.
~Eugenio Montale
~Eugenio Montale
Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them.
~Alfred North Whitehead
~Alfred North Whitehead
Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty, and dies with chaos.
~Will Durant
~Will Durant
Civilization grew in the beginning from the minute that we had communication - particularly communication by sea that enabled people to get inspiration and ideas from each other and to exchange basic raw materials.
~Thor Heyerdahl
~Thor Heyerdahl
Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men.
~Jane Addams
~Jane Addams
Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor.
~Arnold Toynbee
~Arnold Toynbee
Civilization is built on a number of ultimate principles...respect for human life, the punishment of crimes against property and persons, the equality of all good citizens before the law...or, in a word justice.
~Max Nordau
~Max Nordau
Civilization is maintained by a very few people in a small number of places and we need only some bombs and a few prisons to blot it out altogether.
~Cyril Connolly
~Cyril Connolly
Civilization is the art of living in towns of such size the everyone does not know everyone else.
~Julian Jaynes
~Julian Jaynes
Civilization is the process of reducing the infinite to the finite.
~Oliver Wendell Holmes
~Oliver Wendell Holmes
Civilization rests on the fact that most people do the right thing most of the time.
~Dean Koontz
~Dean Koontz
Clearly, a civilization that feels guilty for everything it is and does will lack the energy and conviction to defend itself.
~Jean Francois Revel
~Jean Francois Revel
Here the Frenchman, Spaniard, and Englishman all passed, leaving each his legend; and a brilliant and more or less feudal civilization with its aristocracy and slaves has departed with the economic system upon which it rested.
~Hervey Allen
~Hervey Allen
I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two-thirds of the people of the earth will be killed.
~Albert Einstein
~Albert Einstein
I don't believe civilization can do a lot more than educate a person's senses.
~Grace Paley
~Grace Paley
I think God's going to come down and pull civilization over for speeding.
~Steven Wright
~Steven Wright
I would say colonialism is a wonderful thing. It spread civilization to Africa. Before it they had no written language, no wheel as we know it, no schools, no hospitals, not even normal clothing.
~Ian Smith
~Ian Smith
If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.
~Thomas Jefferson
~Thomas Jefferson
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.
~Harriet Martineau
~Harriet Martineau
If we cannot by reason, by influence, by example, by strenuous effort, and by personal sacrifice, mend the bad places of civilization, we certainly cannot do it by force.
~Auberon Herbert
~Auberon Herbert
In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.
~Ambrose Bierce
~Ambrose Bierce
In our civilization, men are afraid that they will not be men enough and women are afraid that they might be considered only women.
~Theodor Reik
~Theodor Reik
In our rich consumers' civilization we spin cocoons around ourselves and get possessed by our possessions.
~Max Lerner
~Max Lerner
Iraq is no diversion. It is a place where civilization is taking a decisive stand against chaos and terror, we must not waver.
~George W. Bush
~George W. Bush
It is better for civilization to be going down the drain than to be coming up it.
~Henry Allen
~Henry Allen
It was the Law of the Sea, they said. Civilization ends at the waterline. Beyond that, we all enter the food chain, and not always right at the top.
~Hunter S. Thompson
~Hunter S. Thompson
It's just a show. It's not the end of Western Civilization. It's chewing gum.
~Jerry Springer
~Jerry Springer
Jesus wept; Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived the grace of present civilization.
~Victor Hugo
~Victor Hugo
My play is the ultimate expression of my feeling of the twilight of Western civilization.
~Richard Foreman
~Richard Foreman
One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person.
~William Feather
~William Feather
Self-righteous people can talk themselves into forgetting they are part of a civilization. They can then feed on that culture, bringing it down. It's happened many times in the past. It could happen to us.
~David Brin
~David Brin
Sensible and responsible women do not want to vote. The relative positions to be assumed by man and woman in the working out of our civilization were assigned long ago by a higher intelligence than ours.
~Grover Cleveland
~Grover Cleveland
Slavery is the first step towards civilization. In order to develop it is necessary that things should be much better for some and much worse for others, then those who are better off can develop at the expense of others.
~Alexander Herzen
~Alexander Herzen
The center of Western culture is Greece, and we have never lost our ties with the architectural concepts of that ancient civilization.
~Stephen Gardiner
~Stephen Gardiner
The city has become a serious menace to our civilization... It has a peculiar attraction for the immigrant.
~Josiah Strong
~Josiah Strong
The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.
~Fyodor Dostoevsky
~Fyodor Dostoevsky
The disease of mutual distrust among nations is the bane of modern civilization.
~Franz Boas
~Franz Boas
The evidence of a Jewish civilization going back more than two millennia is overwhelmingly borne out in the archaeology of the region. The heritage of the Jews in Palestine is documented.
~Jack Schwartz
~Jack Schwartz
The more rapidly a civilization progresses, the sooner it dies for another to rise in its place.
~Havelock Ellis
~Havelock Ellis
The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion.
~Thomas Carlyle
~Thomas Carlyle
The true civilization is where every man gives to every other every right that he claims for himself.
~Robert Ingersoll
~Robert Ingersoll
There are historic situations in which refusal to defend the inheritance of a civilization, however imperfect, against tyranny and aggression may result in consequences even worse than war.
~Reinhold Niebuhr
~Reinhold Niebuhr
There are people accusing me that I'm sick, that I'm a danger to morals, western civilization and basically everything under the sun. And they've got these wild stories about me, completely off the wall, completely untrue. They thought them up and it makes you wonder what goes on in their brain, but of course, they don't consider themselves sick. They think they're normal because they don't dress like I do.
~Marilyn Manson
~Marilyn Manson
To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization.
~Arnold Toynbee
~Arnold Toynbee
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