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.

What do I think of Western civilization? I think it would be a very good idea.

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.

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.

I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.

For in this century, within the next decades, will be decided for generations whether all mankind is to become Communist, whether the whole world is to become free, or whether, in the struggle, civilization as we know it is to be completely destroyed or completely changed.

Four years of world war, at a cost in human suffering which our minds are mercifully too limited to imagine, led to the very clear realization that international anarchy must be abandoned if civilization was to survive.

We may be sure that out of the ruins of our capitalist civilization a new religion will emerge, just as Christianity emerged from the ruins of the Roman civilization.

Civilization is the lamb's skin in which barbarism masquerades.

Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor.

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.

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.