Civilization Quotes

We are born princes and the civilizing process makes us frogs.

When humor goes, there goes civilization.

It (modernization) is just another jungle closing in.

Flushed with his impassioned gibberish, he saw himself standing alone on the last barrier of civiliz...

Civilization is in fact the longest story of all. Civilization can persist through a series of econo...

The technologies which have had the most profound effects on human life are usually simple. A good e...

It is not the sanctuary that is in danger; it is civilization. It is not infallibility that may go d...

The strength of a civilization is not measured by its ability to fight wars, but rather by its abili...

It seems to me that you can almost define civilization by saying it's people who are not willing to ...

Fighting is found everywhere in the animal kingdom and nowhere so much as among human animals. Anima...

We sleep soundly in our beds, because rough men stand ready in the night to do violence on those who...

The old civilizations claimed that they were founded on love or justice. Ours is founded upon hatred...

Tea is one of the main stays of civilization in this country.

Since barbarism has its pleasures it naturally has its apologists.

The test of civilization is its estimate of women.

Modern man has successfully razed the imaginative landscapes of primal peoples the whole world over....

Civilization was a defense against nature’s raw power.

The human mind is a lucky little local, passing accident which was totally unforeseen, and condemned...

Civilization is a race between disaster and education.

You've made a beast of yourself,- to the beasts you may go.

Since ideology, particularly in it's shallower versions, is peculiarly destructive of the capacity t...

He says that there can be no high civilization without enslavement of the masses, either nominal or ...

If a test of civilization be sought, none can be so sure as the condition of that half of society ov...

The people who build high, strong fences are the ones who survive the best. You deny that reality on...

Thus the great civilizer sends out its emissaries, sooner or later, to every sandy cape and light-ho...

If it is asserted that civilization is a real advance in the condition of man — and I think that it ...

I have no doubt that it is a part of the destiny of the human race, in its gradual improvement, to l...

‎I love even to see the domestic animals reassert their native rights — any evidence that they have ...

It's funny how people think that they have "a right to life". Now isn't that the biggest load you ev...

One civilization after another has been wrecked upon the attempt to secure sufficient leadership fro...

The fiendlike skill we display in the invention of all manner of death-dealing engines, the vindicti...

We sit by and watch the barbarian. We tolerate him in the long stretches of peace we are not afraid...

The Barbarian hopes — and that is the mark of him, that he can have his cake and eat it too.He will ...

Have you ever plunged into the immensity of space and time by reading the geological treatises of Cu...

Where the human need for order meetsthe human tendency to mayhem, where civilization runs smack agai...

Our lifetime may be the last that will be lived out in a technological society.

Every human generation has its own illusions with regard to civilization; some believe they are taki...

In my own opinion, the average American's cultural shortcomings can be likened to those of the educa...

What is peace? Balance three iron skewers tip to tip, one upon the other; at the summit, emplace an ...

...the/ supreme end-result of/ early Gothic phallic forms/ is the skyscraper & the/ oil drill & powe...

Japhy was considered an eccentric around the campus, which is the usual thing for campuses and colle...

The fleeting systems lapse like foam,'" he mumbled what was evidently a quotation. "That's it—foam, ...

We are all afraid - for our confidence for the future for the world. That is the nature of the hum...

If civilization has risen from the Stone Age, it can rise again from the Wastepaper Age.

Public libraries have been a mainstay of my life. They represent an individual's right to acquire kn...

It oughtn't to need a war to make us talk to each other in buses, and invent our own amusements in t...

In much of the rest of the world, rich people live in gated communities and drink bottled water. Tha...

Not until the beginning of the 20th century did Europe's urban populations finally become self-susta...

Twelve thousand years ago, everybody on earth was a hunter-gatherer; now almost all of us are farmer...

Thanks to this availability of suitable wild mammals and plants, early peoples of the Fertile Cresce...

Civilization is a hopeless race to discover remedies for the evils it produces.

The first man, who, after enclosing a piece of ground, took it into his head to say, "This is mine,"...

I know that [civilized men] do nothing but boast incessantly of the peace and repose they enjoy in t...

There is always a city. There is always a civilisation. There is always a barbarian with a pickaxe. ...

There is always a city. There is always a civilization. There is always a barbarian with a pickaxe. ...

It's in the morning, for most of us. It's that time, those few seconds when we're coming out of slee...

By the time of the arrival of Islam in the early seventeenth century CE, what we now call the Middle...

This Voyager spacecraft was constructed by the United States of America. We are a community of 240 m...

This is a present from a small, distant world, a token of our sounds, our science, our images, our m...

Interlibrary loans are a wonder of the world and a glory of civilization.

Civilization must be preserved,' says he.'Civilization's doing fine,' I said. 'We just don't happen ...

The first Abenaki word I ever learned was Bitawbagok – the word they use for Lake Champlain. It mea...

The hardest part about being back in the human world was relearning emotion. Everything a wolf does ...

Most of human history had been industry versus nature, with industry winning.

All scornful descriptions of American landscapes with ruined tenements, automobile dumps, polluted r...

A savage is simply a human organism that has not received enough news from the human race.

Our political system is now run by the Big People for their own interests. If they ever deign to not...

The life of the arts, far from being an interruption, a distraction, in the life of the nation, is c...

And what were the rules at St. Cloud's? What were Larch's rules? Which rules did Dr. Larch observe, ...

It was unearthly, and the men were--No, they were not inhuman. Well, you know, that was the worst of...

And this also," said Marlow suddenly, "has been one of the dark places of the earth.

And he knew something else as a social evolutionist that he might stress someday in his 'Every Chang...

Civilizations die from philosophical calm irony and the sense of fair play quite as surely as they...

Wherever an altar is found, there civilization exists.

Civilization is nothing more than the effort to reduce the use of force to the last resort.

The constant tug between nature and civilization is what keeps on our toes. Though of course, that d...

By speech first, but far more by writing, man has been able to put something of himself beyond death...

Everything might scatter. You might be right. I suppose it's something we can't easily get away from...

I believe order is better than chaos, creation better than destruction. I prefer gentleness to viole...

What happened? It took Gibbon six volumes to describe the decline and fall of the Roman Empire, so I...

In the early twelfth century century the Virgin had been the supreme protectress of civilisation. Sh...

Imagination has brought mankind through the Dark Ages to its present state of civilization. Imaginat...

All civilizations at some time have fallen into this total terror, when the mystery of life was a ki...

Instead of the former divinely appointed aims of the Jewish, Greek, or Roman nations, which ancient ...

But that's the whole aim of civilization: to make everything a source of enjoyment.

Spiritual activity, education, civilization, culture, the idea are all vague, indefinite concepts, u...

In God's scheme what is a few billion years here and there. Perhaps there have come and gone a dozen...

Books are precious things, but more than that, they are the strong backbone of civilization. They ar...

I realize then that the disappearance of a culture does not signify the disappearance of human value...

The market system is the basis of our civilization. Its only alternative is the Führer principle.

If men do not now succeed in abolishing war, civilization and mankind are doomed.

And it came to me as I stood on the desert sand, looking at the Great Pyramid, that what any civiliz...

(When asked what he thought of Western civilization): 'I think it would be a good idea.

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

Human civilization as we know it is like the Titanic headed for the iceberg, whether the iceberg be ...

In February 1912, ancient China came to an end when the last of three millennia of Chinese emperors ...

What I tell you three times is true. What I tell you three million times is civilization.

There are many humorous things in the world; among them, the white man's notion that he is less sava...

And what does it amount to?" said Satan, with his evil chuckle. "Nothing at all. You gain nothing; y...

The equality prescribed by the Revolution is simply the weak man's revenge upon the strong; it's jus...