Civilization Quotes

Civilization and profit go hand in hand.

— Calvin Coolidge

Simplicity is the peak of civilization.

— Henry David Thoreau

Civilization is paralysis.

— Paul Gauguin

“Agriculture is the source of civilization, and”

— Sarah Ballantyne

Civilization can never be sustainable.

— Derrick Jensen

“My Walden was no walk from civilization.”

— Lawrence F. Lihosit

Art is the signature of civilizations.

— Beverly Sills

We civilizations now know ourselves mortal.

— Paul Valery

The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“A civilization must be judged by its standards not by its expenditure.”

— Amit Kalantri

Intelligent discontent is the mainspring of civilization.

— Eugene V. Debs

“Civilization is a race between education and catastrophe.”

— Ken Robinson

Every civilization finds it necessary to negotiate compromises with its own values.

— Golda Meir

Civilizations should be measured by the degree of diversity attained and the degree of unity retained.

— W. H. Auden

The slaves of developed industrial civilization are sublimated slaves.

— Herbert Marcuse

“Good sex is the basis of any truly civilized society.”

— Gil A. Waters

Love is the spirit of life unto the adorned body of mankind, the establisher of true civilization in this mortal world, and…

— Abdu'l-Bahá

Tenderness has created the first 'social order' - that of the mother with her offspring. Through motherliness, woman later makes her great…

— Ellen Key

The personal life of every individual is based on secrecy, and perhaps it is partly for that reason that civilized man is…

— Anton Chekhov

We can tentatively credit capitalist civilization with a positive, if very geographically uneven, record in the struggle against disease.

— Immanuel Wallerstein

Artists are the gatekeepers of truth. We are civilization’s anchor. We are the compass for humanity’s conscience.

— Harry Belafonte

Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty ones.

— Anonymous

Modern technology has become a total phenomenon for civilization, the defining force of a new social order in which efficiency is no…

— Jacques Ellul

The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.

— William James

[On peanut M&Ms:] It is the eggness of them. A shell, chocolate placenta, proteiny peanut baby. Life shape, birth shape, cell shape,…

— Cynthia Heimel

I believe that truth is the glue that holds government together, not only our Government but civilization itself. That bond, though strained,…

— Gerald R. Ford

“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

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

— Dean Koontz

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

Internationalism is a community theory of society which is founded on economic, spiritual, and biological facts. It maintains that respect for a…

— Christian Lous Lange

What is different in capitalist civilization has been two things. First, the process of meritocracy has been proclaimed as an official virtue…

— Immanuel Wallerstein

“We evolved haphazardly within a random universe; no purpose underpins us, no God watches over us, and no assured glorious future awaits…

— Colin Feltham

The reward of commercial civilization is the ability to consume a never-ending array of products.There are limits beyond which commodities cannot be…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

With his decision to use force against the violent extremists of the Islamic State, President Obama ... is stepping once again -…

— Hisham Melhem

Modern civilization is largely devoted to the pursuit of the cult of delusion. There is no general information about the nature of…

— Sogyal Rinpoche

During my span of life science has become a matter of public concern and the l'art pour l'art standpoint of my youth…

— Max Born

“How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man…

— Winston Churchill