Civilization Quotes

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.

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.

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.

The statistics of life out there and the statistics of intelligent beings and advanced civilization is a certainty, the way I look at it. that It has not been accepted, because we've been in an anthropocentric era.

Civilization is the limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.

Civilization has given us enormous successes: going to the moon, technology. But then this is the civilisation that took us to debt, environmental crisis, every single crisis. We need a civilization where we say goodbye to these things.

I am especially grateful, however, to have known the fifties, before we began to poison our own civilization - or at least before the effects of the poison began to be felt.

The test of civilization is its estimate of women.

Feminists are in an untenable position, defending something they no longer believe in, and which history will force them to recognize was destructive of most of the central pillars of civilization. I'm just the first one to point it out publicly.

If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.

Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty ones.

I have to bring to your notice a terrifying reality: with the development of nuclear weapons Man has acquired, for the first time in history, the technical means to destroy the whole of civilization in a single act.

Civilization as it is known today could not have evolved, nor can it survive, without an adequate food supply.

The contribution of Islam to history and modern civilization is the product of the efforts of peoples of many races and tongues which came to accept its way of life.

The only people who steal are thieves, and that's a very small percentage of civilization. Most people want to have some way to make the economic transaction valid. They want to return the favor, if you will... return the benefit and reciprocate.

The ultimate tendency of civilization is towards barbarism.

One of the tests of the civilization of people is the treatment of its criminals.

Right now, there's the illusion of order and civilization, but there's a tremendous amount of economic tension in this country and the educational system is constantly eroding.