Civilization Quotes · Page 27

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

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

The soul of a civilization is its religion, and it dies with its faith.

— Will Durant

“Orgy-porgy, round and round and round, beating one another in six-eight time.”

— Aldous Huxley

The last struggle for our rights, the battle for our civilization, is entirely with ourselves.

— William Wells Brown

The danger of civilization, of course, is that you will piss away your life on nonsense.

— Jim Harrison

The test of the moral quality of a civilization is its treatment of the weak and powerless.

— Jerome Frank

The philosopher cannot seriously put to himself questions that his civilization has not lived.

— William Barrett

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

— Neil Gaiman

Every civilization must contend with an unconscious force which can block, betray, or countermand almost any conscious intention of the collectivity.

— Frank Herbert

The Muslims refuse our culture and try to impose their culture on us. I reject them, and this is not only my…

— Oriana Fallaci

What feminism calls patriarchy is simply civilization , an abstract system designed by men but augmented and now co-owned by women.

— Camille Paglia

Dietary fat, whether saturated or not, is not a cause of obesity, heart disease or any other chronic disease of civilization.

— Andrew Weil

[Barack Obama] believes climate change is a bigger threat to our country than these barbaric Islamic terrorists that have as their organizing…

— Jeb Bush

When civilization takes a nose dive, how can you look away? You've got to be there. You've got to be at the…

— Gary Shteyngart

“No offense, but it seems like the whole point of civilization is to get someone else to do your killing for you.”

— Mark Russell

You cannot organize civilization around the core of militarism and at the same time expect reason to control human destinies.

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

If I say your voice is an amber waterfall in which I yearn to burn each day, if you eat my mouth…

— Aberjhani

“Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them. —Alfred North Whitehead, An Introduction…

— Robert Wachter

But however secure and well-regulated civilized life may become, bacteria, Protozoa, viruses, infected fleas, lice, ticks, mosquitoes, and bedbugs will always lurk…

— Hans Zinsser

As I walked back to civilization, I realized that for the first time in the six months I had known Curran, we…

— Ilona Andrews

For 200 years, the West has been so dominant in the world that it's not really needed to understand other cultures, other…

— Martin Jacques

I'm sorry that government involves filling out a lot of forms. ... I'm sorry myself that we're not still on the frontier,…

— Molly Ivins

“And you don’t like my saying that, but here’s the truth: luxury always comes at someone else’s expense. One of the many…

— Ann Leckie

I am among those who believe that our Western civilization is on its way to perishing. It has many commendable qualities, most…

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

When I go biking, I repeat a mantra of the day's sensations: bright sun, blue sky, warm breeze, blue jay's call, ice…

— Diane Ackerman

Do the people of the world not yet realize that by fighting on until the bitter end I am not only performing…

— Haile Selassie

Too many people think that the faith line divides Muslims and Christians or Jews and Hindus, or just to say that there…

— Eboo Patel

I don't think it had ever occurred to me that man's supremacy is not primarily due to his brain, as most of…

— John Wyndham

Because Roman civilization perished through barbarian invasions, we are perhaps too much inclined to think that that is the only way a…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

Progress has brought us both unbounded opportunities and unbridled difficulties. Thus, the measure of our civilization will not be that we have…

— Theodore Roosevelt

“Every single empire in its official discourse has said that it is not like all the others, that its circumstances are special,…

— Edward W. Said

“Have you ever plunged into the immensity of space and time by reading the geological treatises of Cuvier? Borne away on the…

— Honoré de Balzac

Civilization is the art of living together with people not entirely like oneself.

— Helen Cam

“An old man who plants a tree whose shade he will never use is the primary component of civilization.”

— Vaughn Heppner

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

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

Practical dreamers have always been and always will be the pattern-makers of civilization.

— Napoleon Hill

There is something even more valuable to civilization than wisdom, and that is character.

— H. L. Mencken

When tillage begins, other arts follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of human civilization.

— Daniel Webster

Present-Day Wickedness, Apostasy and Modern Civilization Cannot Prevent Revival.

— John R. Rice

They do not understand the fragility of civilization and the constant nearness of savage nature.

— Camille Paglia