Civilization Quotes · Page 69

Anglo-Saxon civilization has taught the individual to protect his own rights; American civilization will teach him to respect the rights of others.

— William Jennings Bryan

“Of course there is no veneer, the process is one of growth, and primitiveness and civilization are degrees of the same thing.…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

If we cannot come together to pause, to respect our dead and the heroic lives of meaning they led, then ours is…

— Mark McKinnon

The disastrous feature of our civilization is that it is far more developed materially than spiritually. Its balance is disturbed.

— Albert Schweitzer

In the twenty-first century, the robot will take the place which slave labor occupied in ancient civilization.

— Nikola Tesla

There is no salvation for civilization, or even the human race, other than the creation of a world government.

— Albert Einstein

No community has ever yet passed beyond the initial phases in which its pugnacity and fanaticism enabled it to found a nation,…

— George Bernard Shaw

Theory of the true civilization. It is not to be found in gas or steam or table turning. It consists in the…

— Charles Baudelaire

Just as liberalism is the main force that drives conservatism and maintains its popularity in some quarters, conservatism is the reason liberalism…

— L. Neil Smith

The function of the rebel is to shake the fixated mores of the rigid order of civilization; and this shaking, though painful,…

— Rollo May

We must teach our people the greatness of China's historical culture. In our educational program we must stress Chinese history and geography…

— Chiang Kai-shek

After all, [female genital mutilation is] a key pillar of institutional misogyny in Islam: its entire purpose is to deny women sexual…

— Mark Steyn

Fire, ice, asteroids and pole shifts are bogeymen with which we distract ourselves from the real threat of our time. In an…

— Dean Koontz

“And all this is happening in the richest and freest country in the world, and in the middle of the 20th century.…

— james baldwin

To realize life in the abstract as noble or beautiful or humane, to set it forth so with radiance upon it, that…

— George Edward Woodberry

Before we can build a stable civilization worthy of humanity as a whole, it is necessary that each historical civilization should become…

— Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

“We wrap up our violent and mysterious world in a pretense of understanding. We paper over the voids of our comprehension with…

— Mark Lawrence

“The most obvious and the most distinctive features of the History of Civilisation, during the last fifty years, is the wonderful increase…

— Thomas Henry Huxley

Totalitarianism extends to whatever touches it...psychological technique, as it operates in the army or in a great industrial plant, entails a direct…

— Jacques Ellul

“One thus gets an impression that civilization is something which was imposed on a resisting majority by a minority which understood how…

— Sigmund Freud

Ideas about a person's place in society, his role, lifestyle, and ego qualities will lose their hold as the cohesive forces in…

— Peter J. Carroll

“Then to give the kids a historical perspective, Chacko told them about the earth woman. He made them imagine that the earth…

— Arundhati Roy

The world in the past has been ruled by force, and man has dominated over woman by reason of his more forceful…

— Abdu'l-Bahá

I rejoice that horses and steers have to be broken before they can be made the slaves of men, and that men…

— Henry David Thoreau

For four hundred years European civilization has dominated the world - for better or for worse. It is convenient, and flattering, for…

— William Pfaff

For it is my opinion that we enclose and celebrate the freaks of our nation and our civilization. Yellowstone National Park is…

— John Steinbeck

Marketing is about spreading ideas, and spreading ideas is the single most important output of our civilization.

— Seth

“Civilization transformed man from a food gatherer to a gatherer of pieces of paper: diplomas, employment contracts, money, etc.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years.

— John Burroughs

“Sirius was not merely a star to them. It was a symbol—a guide, a witness to the birth and death of worlds.”

— Viktor Tonchev

“...the/ supreme end-result of/ early Gothic phallic forms/ is the skyscraper & the/ oil drill & powered/ compressor & pistons of/ great engines...”

— Jack Kerouac

British physician, West African Countries and Peoples Man's place is higher than the sky. Respect for man is the underlying spirit of…

— Muhammad Iqbal

Family life was and always will be the foundation of any civilization. Destroy the family and you destroy the country.

— Erin Pizzey

The great advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science or literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from…

— Milton Friedman

Whatever is goode in its kinde ought to be preserv'd in respect for antiquity, as well as our present advantage, for destruction…

— Nicholas Hawksmoor

Technological civilization has now dominated the earth to the point where there is a big question what is going to happen next.

— Howard Rheingold

We are not on the way to greater individualism, but are becoming an increasingly manipulated mass civilization.

— Erich Fromm

Civilization must stand up and combat the current collapse of governance, the rise of violence, and the spread of chaos and fear…

— Rudy Giuliani

CO2 is the exhaling breath of our civilization, literally... Changing that pattern requires a scope, a scale, a speed of change that…

— Al Gore

“So holding many factors constant, we find that living in a civilization reduces one’s chances of being a victim of violence fivefold.”

— Steven Pinker