Civilization Quotes · Page 31

The civilization of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.

— Cyril Connolly

The real triumph of civilization is the extent to which coercion is banished from human relations.

— Anthony Gregory

“...my civilization is not even skin deep - it does not go deeper than my clothes.”

— Edgar Rice Burroughs

When civilization stands at the edge of a cliff, a step forward doesn't make much sense.

— Denis Hayes

One of the tests of the civilization of people is the treatment of its criminals.

— Rutherford B. Hayes

Literature, art, like civilization itself, are only accidents.

— Joyce Carol Oates

“The further from civilization you get, the louder your whispers become.”

— Cody Edward Lee Miller

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

— George Orwell

I think it is a sad reflection on our civilization that while we can and do measure the temperature in the atmosphere…

— Nicholas Kurti

Civilization is so hard on the body that some have called it a disease, despite the arts that keep puny bodies alive…

— G. Stanley Hall

Even on the most solemn occasions I got away without wearing socks and hid that lack of civilization in high boots

— Albert Einstein

The very essence of our civilization is that we give a paramount place to morality in all our affairs, public or private.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Lucifer represents life, though, progress, civilization, liberty, independence. Lucifer is the Logos, the Serpent, the Savior.

— H. P. Blavatsky

“There is always a possibility that a higher civilization in the universe could visit the Earth and destroy our civilization, or on…

— Mehmet Murat ildan

There is not a respectable system of civilization known to history whose foundations were not laid in the institution of domestic slavery.

— Robert M. T. Hunter

America may be unique in being a country which has leapt from barbarism to decadence without touching civilization.

— John O'Hara

What does it mean for a civilisation to be a million years old? We have had radio telescopes and spaceships for a…

— Carl Sagan

First, I worry about climate change. It's the only thing that I believe has the power to fundamentally end the march of…

— William J. Clinton

I'm really hopeful about the future of space exploration and human spaceflight. Civilization as we know it has been defined by exploration.…

— Alan G. Poindexter

“The advent of civilization--an overly optimistic word--didn't change things as much as one might think, because no matter how large a city…

— Gene Doucette

I am the son of two civilizations that at a certain age in history have formed a happy marriage. The first of…

— Naguib Mahfouz

Wise cultivated, genial conversation is the last flower of civilization, and the best result which life has to offer us,--a cup for…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Few can contemplate without a sense of exhilaration the splendid achievements of practical energy and technical skill, which, from the latter part…

— E. F. Schumacher

Mark you, if you give up spirituality, leaving it aside to go after the materializing civilization of the West, the result will…

— Swami Vivekananda

Though nihilism has been relentlessly criticized for overemphasizing the dark side of human experience, it might be equally true that this overemphasis…

— John Marmysz

It's my guess that something like 5% of GDP goes to money management and itsattendant friction. I define it broadly - annuities,…

— Charlie Munger

“From my childhood I had heard read, and read the Bible myself. Morning and evening the sacred volume was opened and prayers…

— Robert G. Ingersoll

These European White Men, then, with civilization in their blood and in their destiny, crossed the Atlantic and set up a new…

— Ben Klassen

The world's most 'primitive' people have few possessions, but they are not poor. Poverty is not a certain small amount of goods,…

— Marshall Sahlins

“To extend the digital metaphor, both rivals must also reconsider the fitness of their apps for the twenty-first century. In his book…

— Graham Allison

“Our dream of heaven cannot be realized on earth. Once we begin to rely upon our reason, and to use our powers…

— Karl Popper

The first western gardens were those in the Mediterranean basin. There in the desert areas stretching from North Africa to the valleys…

— Penelope Hobhouse

Civilization had too many rules for me, so I did my best to rewrite them.

— Bill Cosby

Civilization is the process of reducing the infinite to the finite.

— Anonymous

Civilization rests on the fact that most people do the right thing most of the time.

— Dean Koontz

Each succeeding civilization forgets its predecessor. Civilizations are ghouls.

— Gutzon Borglum

Machinery is the chief symbol of modern civilization; it represents a great sin.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Illusions mistaken for truth are the pavement under our feet. They are what we call civilization.

— Barbara Kingsolver

Civilization is only a series of victories against nature.

— William Harvey

I don't believe civilization can do a lot more than educate a person's senses.

— Grace Paley