Civilization Quotes

Justice has nothing to do with victor nations and vanquished nations, but must be a moral standard that all the world's peoples can agree to. To seek this and to achieve it - that is true civilization.

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.

When tillage begins, other arts follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of human civilization.

I ever will profess myself the greatest friend to those whose actions best correspond with their doctrine; which, I am sorry to say, is too seldom the case amongst those nations who pretend most to civilization.

We've persevered because of a belief we share with the Iraqi people - a belief that out of the ashes of war, a new beginning could be born in this cradle of civilization. Through this remarkable chapter in the history of the United States and Iraq, we have met our responsibility. Now, it's time to turn the page.

In our civilization, men are afraid that they will not be men enough and women are afraid that they might be considered only women.

If civilization has risen from the Stone Age, it can rise again from the Wastepaper Age.

All of the philosophers I studied were white (with a few Eastern exceptions), and, for that matter, they were all male. Africa, the cradle of civilization, seemed to have no footing in the highest form of human thought.

We are all afraid for our confidence, for the future, for the world. That is the nature of the human imagination. Yet every man, every civilization, has gone forward because of its engagement with what it has set itself to do.

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.

Surely the only sound foundation for a civilization is a sound state of mind.

I see little of more importance to the future of our country and of civilization than full recognition of the place of the artist. If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.

Hold fast to the Bible. To the influence of this Book we are indebted for all the progress made in true civilization and to this we must look as our guide in the future.

I ascribe a basic importance to the phenomenon of language. To speak means to be in a position to use a certain syntax, to grasp the morphology of this or that language, but it means above all to assume a culture, to support the weight of a civilization.

No doubt Western civilization has in the past been full of wars and revolutions, and the national elements in our culture, even when they were ignored, always provided an unconscious driving force of passion and aggressive self-assertion.

Civilization is not a spontaneous generation with any race or nation known to history, but the torch to be handed down from race to race from age to age.

The Lincoln Memorial is related to the toga and the civilization that wore it.

America is the civilization of people engaged in transforming themselves. In the past, the stars of the performance were the pioneer and the immigrant. Today, it is youth and the Black.

The gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature, and poetry, and all that is spiritual.

I have seen the science I worshiped, and the aircraft I loved, destroying the civilization I expected them to serve.

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.

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.

Civilization is a youth with a molotov cocktail in his hand. Culture is the Soviet tank or L.A. cop that guns him down.

America may be unique in being a country which has leapt from barbarism to decadence without touching civilization.