Civilization Quotes · Page 58

Let's face it - think of Africa, and the first images that come to mind are of war, poverty, famine and flies.…

— Henry Louis Gates

Indeed it is the protean ability of Western civilization to be self-critical and self-correcting - not only in producing wealth but over…

— Paul Johnson

“The employed are punished by having to do what they do not love. The self-employed are punished by the opposite.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I think most of us secretly know – and those of us at the radical middle are inclined to say – that…

— Mark Satin

The issue is whether the ultimate civil authority of the United States can tolerate actions in contempt of constitutional lines of authority.…

— Harold Russell

The South creates the civilizations, the North conquers them, ruins them, borrows from them, spreads them: this is one summary of history.

— Will Durant

Civil movements and riots are as old as human civilization. Long before Twitter was created, mobilization of the discontented was mouth-to-mouth, or…

— Eduardo Paes

...What is at stake is civilization and humanity, nothing less. The idea that everything is permitted, as Nietzsche put it, rests on…

— Irving Kristol

No previous civilization has been able to achieve it, nor can we see even in the remote distance, that day of the…

— Leon Pinsker

The vigour of civilised societies is preserved by the widespread sense that high aims are worth while. Vigorous societies harbour a certain…

— Alfred North Whitehead

I think that we, as a civilization, need to sit down and figure out how to solve political problems over a table,…

— Gary Sherman

Since the main problem that American, the Afro- Americans have is a lack of cultural identity. It is necessary to teach [people]…

— Malcolm X

I take "We, the People" seriously because I don't know how we build a civilization without reciprocity.

— Bill Moyers

But that's just the aim of civilization - to make everything a source of enjoyment.

— Leo Tolstoy

“Most children have been cursed with parents who have forgotten the joy of walking barefoot.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

What I am more concerned about is whether our whole civilization will be around in the next 25 years.

— Sonny Rollins

Every civilization is founded on sins - every single one. Dispossession, violence, appropriation. What distinguishes civilizations are the ones who rise above…

— Charles Krauthammer

The Roman Pontiff can, and ought to, reconcile himself, and come to terms with progress, liberalism and modern civilization.

— Pope Pius IX

Love as a concrete foundation for an authentically functional civilization requires the around-the-clock labors of forgiveness. Without it, Love fails, Friendship fails,…

— Aberjhani

Speech is civilization itself. The word, even the most contradictions word, preserves contact - it is silence which isolates.

— Thomas E. Mann

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

Are we asserting the easy dominion of our civilization over all times and all places, as signs that we casually absorb as…

— Martha Rosler

I am convinced that not only do children need children's books to fine-tune their brains, but our civilization needs them if we…

— E. L. Konigsburg

There is such a thing as too much couth.

— S. J. Perelman

There are 400 billion stars out there, just in our galaxy alone. If just one out of a million of those had…

— Jodie Foster

For the first time in its history, Western Civilization is in danger of being destroyed internally by a corrupt, criminal ruling cabal…

— Carroll Quigley

The famous Greek physician Hippocrates administered musical treatments to his patients in 400 B.C. Although this type of treatment did not originate…

— Corinne Heline

The "environmental movement" is becoming an economic movement, is joining the social justice movement, is becoming a sustainability movement. It's leaving behind…

— Edward Norton

It's an essential fight librarians are making, an age-old fight; yours is a battle for civilization. It's a fight for our country's…

— Jim Hightower

The most enduring contributions made to civilization have not been made by brawn, they have been made by brain.

— Benjamin Hooks

Civilization has taught us to eat with a fork, but even now if nobody is around we use our fingers.

— Will Rogers

“The only gain of civilisation for mankind is the greater capacity for variety of sensations - and absolutely nothing more.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

There is a radical and unprecedented shift [in war] that is part of the general transformation of civilization. First, understand that the…

— George Friedman

So the conclusion that I reach, visa vie the individual and civilization, is this: Culture is not our friend. Culture is not…

— Terence McKenna

You can't have a healthy civilization without healthy soil. You can't have junk food and have healthy people.

— Joel Salatin

We had our own civilization in Africa before we were captured and carried off to this land. We smelted iron, danced, made…

— Richard Wright

Throughout its history, Islam has borrowed and adapted from other civilizations, both ancient and modern.

— Shereen El Feki

A trial cannot be conducted by announcing the general culpability of a civilization. Only the actual deeds which, at least, stank in…

— Albert Camus

Armaments, universal debt and planned obsolescence - those are the three pillars of Western prosperity.

— Aldous Huxley

The reverence for the Scriptures is an element of civilization, for thus has the history of the world been preserved, and is…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson