Civilization Quotes

Give me civilization. I don't want to be pampered.

The Muslims refuse our culture and try to impose their culture on us. I reject them, and this is not only my duty toward my culture-it is toward my values, my principles, my civilization.

The old interests of aristocracy - the romance of action, the exalted passions of chivalry and war - faded into the background, and their place was taken by the refined and intimate pursuits of peace and civilization.

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.

The American economic, political, and social organization has given to its citizens the benefits of material prosperity, political liberty, and a wholesome natural equality; and this achievement is a gain, not only to Americans, but to the world and to civilization.

The face of nature and civilization in this our country is to a certain point a very sufficient literary field. But it will yield its secrets only to a really grasping imagination. To write well and worthily of American things one need even more than elsewhere to be a master.

The slum is the measure of civilization.

Speech is civilization itself.

No administration could stop the tidal wave of immigration that swept over the land; no political party could restrain or control the enterprise of our people, and no reasonable man could desire to check the march of civilization.

I believe that what we are fighting here is not just a small group of people who have hijacked a religion, but it is a civilization bent on destroying ours.

When humor goes, there goes civilization.

Thus lynch law held sway in the far West until civilization spread into the Territories and the orderly processes of law took its place. The emergency no longer existing, lynching gradually disappeared from the West.

Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos.

To make the moral achievement implicit in science a source of strength to civilization, the scientist will have to have the cooperation also of the philosopher and the religious teacher.

Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime.

I would seriously question whether anybody is really foolish enough to really say what they mean. Sometimes I think that civilization as we know it would kind of break down if we all were completely honest.

In our rich consumers' civilization we spin cocoons around ourselves and get possessed by our possessions.

The papacy again, representing the traditional unity of European civilization, has also shown itself unable to limit effectively the push of nationalism.

The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.

Barbarism is needed every four or five hundred years to bring the world back to life. Otherwise it would die of civilization.

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

Civilization had too many rules for me, so I did my best to rewrite them.

If mankind were to continue in other than the present barbarism, a new path must be found, a new civilization based on some other method than technology.

Every great movement in the history of Western civilization from the Carolingian age to the nineteenth century has been an international movement which owed its existence and its development to the cooperation of many different peoples.

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

I've been thinking about the distorted view of science that prevails in our culture. I've been wondering about this, because our civilization is completely dependent on science and high technology, yet most of us are alienated from science.

Iraq is no diversion. It is a place where civilization is taking a decisive stand against chaos and terror, we must not waver.

Civilization is a conspiracy. Modern life is the silent compact of comfortable folk to keep up pretences.

It is only through books that we partake of the great harvest that is human civilization across the ages.

Christianity is the enemy of liberty and civilization.