Civilization Quotes

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...

But the guilty person is only one of the targets of punishment. For punishment is directed above all...

Sadism ... is a massive cultural fact that appeared precisely at the end of the eighteenth century a...

The capitalists are the brains of civilization, because they supply the entire fabric of which all e...

By the middle twentieth century, few European nation-states had not at one time or another figured t...

It has been said that civilization is twenty-four hours and two meals away from barbarism.

No civilization, no matter how mighty it may appear to itself, is indestructible.

Our approach to existential risks cannot be one of trial-and-error. There is no opportunity to learn...

Far from being the smartest possible biological species, we are probably better thought of as the st...

Violence is not necessary to destroy a civilization. Each civilization dies fromindifference toward ...

The year 2100 will see eugenics universally established. In past ages, the law governing the surviva...

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

The human landscape of the New World shows a conquest of nature by an intelligence that does not lov...

A person who knows nothing about literature may be an ignoramus, but many people don't mind being th...

All of us have to be prevaricators, hypocrites, and liars every day of our lives; otherwise the soci...

You're obliged to pretend respect for people and institutions you find absurd. You live attached in ...

I like to pay taxes. With them, I buy civilization.

I hate paying taxes. But I love the civilization they give me

In Europe the rich are refined enough to act as if they're not wealthy. That is how civilized people...

If there hadn't been women we'd still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civili...

I see, in place of that empty figment of one linear history which can be kept up only by shutting on...

Why wasn't I already kissing this woman? Why wasn't I naked, eating violets, and playing music under...

What is word for good together living? Nobody shits in the well?"I laughed. "Civilization?"He nodded...

Looking at him she felt she knew what the people of antiquity had been like. Thirty centuries or mor...

Fatally, the term 'barbarian' is the password that opens up the archives of the twentieth century. I...