Civilization is that mode of conduct which points out to man the path of duty. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Zoo is an artificial territory, an approximation. Civilization is our natural territory. — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
To defend a country you need an army, but to defend a civilization you need education. — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image
Civilization never recedes; the law of necessity ever forces it onwards. — Jules Verne Copy Share Image
When civilizations collide, it usually isn't the more primitive one that prevails. — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
To us the family is the cornerstone of civilization and must ever be. It is the foundation of proper human relationships. — Mark E. Petersen Copy Share Image
The world no longer has a choice between force and law; if civilization is to survive, it must choose the rule of… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
“Nations rise and fall, flourish and decay, by what they believe in and by what their culture stands for.” — Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha Copy Share Image
“The mark of the truly civilized is their (truly baffling to the likes of you and me) patience with what truly baffles.” — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
She was so evidently the victim of the civilization which had produced her, that the links of her bracelet seemed like manacles… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
what about Christianity? Are we right in the face of so long a record of its poverty in international achievement, to keep… — Rose Macaulay Copy Share Image
We are not a civilized country if we can read in a newspaper what a lady tells her boyfriend or husband. — Silvio Berlusconi Copy Share Image
I would suggest that barbarism be considered as a permanent and universal human characteristic which becomes more or less pronounced according to… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
It is my belief that we need a new transnational sustaining 'myth' that can impart value and respect. It is my further… — Stuart Kauffman Copy Share Image
People say 'what do you mean' when you talk about 'bringing down civilization.' What I really mean is depriving the rich of… — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
The key is the Internet. The United States is by far the most advanced country in this new digital culture, so we… — Carlos Slim Copy Share Image
Without metaphor the handling of general concepts such as culture and civilization becomes impossible, and that of disease and disorder is the… — Johan Huizinga Copy Share Image
Here we are at the edge of the world, the very edge of Western civilization, and all of us are so desperate… — M.I.A Copy Share Image
We have progressed in a technological sense, but I'm not so sure whether we have progressed in a civilizational matter - the… — Laszlo Nemes Copy Share Image
Humankind has suddenly entered into a brand new relationship with our planet. Unless we quickly and profoundly change the course of our… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
Is civilization progress? The challenge, I think, is clear; and, as clearly, the final answer will be given not by our amassing… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
The miracle of man is not how far he has sunk but how magnificently he has risen. We are known among the… — Robert Ardrey Copy Share Image
You see that pale, blue dot? That's us. Everything that has ever happened in all of human history, has happened on that… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
“Dogmatic theology is, by its very nature, unchangeable. The same can be said in regard to the spirit of the law. Law… — Alfred Korzybski Copy Share Image
As we enter the 21st Century it is clear that we have entered an unprecedented global age in which our diverse cultures,… — Ashok Gangadean Copy Share Image
I believe with all my heart that civilization has produced nothing finer than a man or woman who thinks and practices true… — Frank Knox Copy Share Image
“Civilization is social order promoting cultural creation. Four elements constitute it: economic provision, political organization, moral tradition, and the pursuit of knowledge… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
“NINETEENTH-CENTURY AUTHORS TENDED TO INTERPRET history as a progression from savagery to civilization. Key hallmarks of this transition included the development of… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
I think that the global consciousness concerning all those elements that produce tension, fractions of societies, is changing in the sense that… — Gilberto Gil Copy Share Image
Civilization - a heap of rubble scavenged by scrawny English Lit. vultures. — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
“Someone just broke pretty much all of human civilization overnight.” The” — James S.A. Corey Copy Share Image
When thought races ahead of Being, a civilization is racing towards destruction. — Jacob Needleman Copy Share Image
Everything in modern civilization is based on this concept of time which is not really valid. — Jose Arguelles Copy Share Image
“There is no document of civilization that is not also a document of barbarism.” — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
Civilization does not have to perish. The brutes are winning only by default. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
