Civilization Quotes

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.

All over the world the wildlife that I write about is in grave danger. It is being exterminated by what we call the progress of civilization.

He would see civilization in danger of perishing under the oppression of a gigantic paradox: he would see multitudes of people starving in the midst of plenty, and nations preparing for war although pledged to peace.

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.

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.

Civilization is the limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.

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.

Barbarians always think of themselves as the bringers of civilization.

We have always been taught that navigation is the result of civilization, but modern archeology has demonstrated very clearly that this is not so.

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.

No university in the world has ever risen to greatness without a correspondingly great library... When this is no longer true, then will our civilization have come to an end.

The world runs on individuals pursuing their self interests. The great achievements of civilization have not come from government bureaus. Einstein didn't construct his theory under order from a, from a bureaucrat. Henry Ford didn't revolutionize the automobile industry that way.

I don't believe civilization can do a lot more than educate a person's senses.

To the present writer a careful study of the facts now available seems to leave no doubt that civilization was born at the southeast corner of the Mediterranean.

Our civilization has evolved through the continuous adjustment of society to the stimulus of new knowledge.

It is what you do from now on that will either move our civilization forward a few tiny steps, or else... begin to march us steadily backward.

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.

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.