Civilization Quotes

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.

Civilization is the limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.

Civilization, we shall find, like Universalism and Christianity, is anti evolutionary in its effects; it works against the laws and conditions which regulated the earlier stages of man's ascent.

By vulgarity I mean that vice of civilization which makes man ashamed of himself and his next of kin, and pretend to be somebody else.

Women know what men have long forgotten. The ultimate economic and spiritual unit of any civilization is still the family.

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.

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.

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.

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.