Civilization Quotes

Slavery is the first step towards civilization. In order to develop it is necessary that things should be much better for some and much worse for others, then those who are better off can develop at the expense of others.

Of course, one way of thinking about all of life and civilization is as being about how the world registers and processes information. Certainly that's what sex is about; that's what history is about.

The next war... may well bury Western civilization forever.

In this respect, the history of science, like the history of all civilization, has gone through cycles.

The worth of a civilization or a culture is not valued in the terms of its material wealth or military power, but by the quality and achievements of its representative individuals - its philosophers, its poets and its artists.

People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization.

We were discussing civilization and the fact that young men among the Greeks at that time were idiots and uneducated, so the men had emotional and friendly relationships with members of their own sex.

It was the Law of the Sea, they said. Civilization ends at the waterline. Beyond that, we all enter the food chain, and not always right at the top.

It has been said that the position of woman is the test of civilization, and that of our women was secure. In them was vested our standard of morals and the purity of our blood.

Sex appeal is the keynote of our civilization.

When urbanity decays, civilization suffers and decays with it.

You know when civilization began? With the invention of the mirror.

The love of domination and an uncontrolled lust of arbitrary power have prevailed among all nations and perhaps in proportion to the degrees of civilization.

The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization.

It's too hard a life for me. I could only do it - check out in that sense - if I checked out somewhere that was luxurious and within hailing distance of civilization.

If we cannot by reason, by influence, by example, by strenuous effort, and by personal sacrifice, mend the bad places of civilization, we certainly cannot do it by force.

I believe with all my heart that civilization has produced nothing finer than a man or woman who thinks and practices true tolerance.

Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.

We strain to tell Americans and aliens in this country that there's nothing unique about America, nothing unique about American civilization, nothing that requires their allegiance, nothing of great value that they should sacrifice for.

Civilization is what makes you sick.

Human rights is a universal standard. It is a component of every religion and every civilization.

You think that a wall as solid as the earth separates civilization from barbarism. I tell you the division is a thread, a sheet of glass. A touch here, a push there, and you bring back the reign of Saturn.

Without civilization, we would not turn into animals, but vegetables.

Patriotism is an indispensable weapon in the defense of civilization against barbarism.

The high point of civilization is that you can hate me and I can hate you but we develop an etiquette that allows us to deal with each other because if we acted solely upon our impulse we'd probably go to war.

For all of higher civilization's recorded history, becoming a man was defined overwhelmingly as taking responsibility for a family.

Western civilization, unfortunately, does not link knowledge and morality but rather, it connects knowledge and power and makes them equivalent.

A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed.

What I am more concerned about is whether our whole civilization will be around in the next 25 years.

I feel this is very important for us to have serene buildings because our civilization is chaotic as it is, you see; our whole machine age has brought about a chaos that has to be somehow counterbalanced, I think.