Civilization Quotes

It's the Law of God that gave the stability to Christian civilization.

Probably, no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both.

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

Back through the ages of barbarism and civilization, in all tongues, we find this instinctive pleasure in the imitative action that is the very essence of all drama.

When humor goes, there goes civilization.

The line of least resistance in the progress of civilization is to make that theoretical postulate real by the continually increasing force of the world's public opinion.

I have increasingly, over the years, felt that religion today does our civilization more harm than good.

The two World Wars came in part, like much modern literature and art, because men, whose nature is to tire of everything in turn... tired of common sense and civilization.

The first requisite of civilization is that of justice.

There was an age, however, when the transition from savagery to civilization, with all its impressive outward manifestations in art and architecture, took place for the first time.

We may get to the point where the only way of saving the world will be for industrial civilization to collapse.

If men do not now succeed in abolishing war, civilization and mankind are doomed.

We will create a civilization of the Mind in Cyberspace. May it be more humane and fair than the world your governments have made before.

Education is the transmission of civilization.

The greatest task before civilization at present is to make machines what they ought to be, the slaves, instead of the masters of men.

But you have to understand, my beard is so nasty. I mean, it's the only beard in the history of Western civilization that makes Bob Dylan's beard look good.

Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

Chastity is the cement of civilization and progress. Without it there is no stability in society, and without it one cannot attain the Science of Life.

Tolerance is held to be a condition of mind which is encouraged by, and is necessary for, civilization.

The condition of the tribes which occupy the country set apart for them in the West is highly prosperous, and encourages the hope of their early civilization. They have for the most part abandoned the hunter state and turned their attention to agricultural pursuits.

The story of civilization is, in a sense, the story of engineering - that long and arduous struggle to make the forces of nature work for man's good.

The more rapidly a civilization progresses, the sooner it dies for another to rise in its place.

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.

Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.

A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within.

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.

The true civilization is where every man gives to every other every right that he claims for himself.

Wherever an altar is found, there civilization exists.

On a group of theories one can found a school; but on a group of values one can found a culture, a civilization, a new way of living together among men.

I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.