Civilization Quotes

It will take a long time, and certainly the West will remain the dominant civilization well into the next century, but the decline is occurring.

Today, human civilization is drowning in a sea of lies.

There is precious little in civilization to appeal to a Yeti.

Iran is a country of 80 million people, educated and dynamic. It sits astride a crucial part of the world. It cannot be sanctioned and pressed down forever. It is the last great civilization to sit outside the global order.

And we owe science to the combined energies of individual men of genius, rather than to any tendency to progress inherent in civilization.

Everybody thinks that this civilization has lasted a very long time but it really does take very few grandfathers' granddaughters to take us back to the dark ages.

A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan.

So long as the system of competition in the production and exchange of the means of life goes on, the degradation of the arts will go on; and if that system is to last for ever, then art is doomed, and will surely die; that is to say, civilization will die.

It is just because civilization is ever evolving, changing, and becoming more complicated, that experts find it so difficult to define it in explicit terms.

Equal and united people can above all become a part of the civilization toward which mankind is moving. If we cannot be at the head of the column leading to such a civilization, there is certainly no need for us to be at is tail.

Well, I think, you know, the arts are really what - one of the things that make this country strong. We always think it's our economy or our military power, but in fact, I think it's our culture, our civilization, our ideas, our creativity.

I consider that there are different degrees of civilization and there are many different ways of expressing it. But one is civilized or is not.

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

Disinterested intellectual curiosity is the life blood of real civilization.

There is every indication that we are to see new developments of the power of aggregated capital to serve civilization, and that the new developments will be made right here in America.

The age in which we live can only be characterized as one of barbarism. Our civilization is in the process not only of being militarized, but also being brutalized.

New York... when civilization falls apart, remember, we were way ahead of you.

Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for education... no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both.

The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.

I think governments are the cancer of civilization.

The greatest advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science and literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government.

To deal with the true causes of war one must begin by recognizing as of prime relevancy to the solution of the problem the familiar fact that civilization is a partial, incomplete, and, to a great extent, superficial modification of barbarism.

From first to last the civilization of America has been bound up with its physical environment.