Civilization Quotes · Page 86

Zionism has gained my full sympathy and I appreciate it much higher than what is called nationalism in modern France. It is…

— Tomas Garrigue Masaryk

Arcturus is the highest civilization in our galaxy,

— Edgar Cayce

It seems to me that there must be an ecological limit to the number of paper pushers the earth can sustain, and…

— Barbara Ehrenreich

Offering thanks in the midst of tragedy is an American tradition, . even during a bloody Civil War.

— Abraham Lincoln

You cannot force growth of human life and civilization, any more than you can force these slow-growing trees. That is the economy…

— William Jay Gaynor

We have gone a long way toward civilization and religious tolerance, and we have a good example in this country. Here the…

— Harry S. Truman

As we enter the 21st Century it is clear that we have entered an unprecedented global age in which our diverse cultures,…

— Ashok Gangadean

Togetherness, for me, means teamwork. It makes us reflect how completely dependent we are upon one another in our social and commercial…

— Walt Disney

Civilization merely develops man's capacity for a greater variety of sensations, and ... absolutely nothing else.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships - the ability of all peoples, of all kinds,…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

By putting business before every other manifestation of life, our mechanical and financial civilization has forgotten the chief business of life: namely,…

— Lewis Mumford

My play is the ultimate expression of my feeling of the twilight of Western civilization.

— Richard Foreman

Civilization is a hopeless race to discover remedies for the evils it produces.

— Anonymous

How aware are we of our own inner life, our spirituality-something so intangible yet so priceless? How much effort do we make…

— Daisaku Ikeda

If today I had a young mind to direct, to start on the journey of life, and I was faced with the…

— Tom Brown, Jr

If we wish our civilization to survive we must break with the habit of deference to great men.

— Karl Popper

Cities should function more like ecosystems, or even metabolisms. When we build, we should be thinking about how we can integrate into…

— Annalee Newitz

One civilization after another has been wrecked upon the attempt to secure sufficient leadership from a single group or class.

— Herbert Hoover

Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them.

— Alfred North Whitehead

...evil is a force and, like the physical and chemical forces, we cannot annihilate it; we may only change its form. We…

— James Weldon Johnson

We may be sure that out of the ruins of our capitalist civilization a new religion will emerge, just as Christianity emerged…

— Herbert Read

I think the biggest reason otherwise radical people don't want to face the necessity of ending industrial civilization is privilege. We're the…

— Lierre Keith

Our civilization is characterized by the word "progress." Progress is its form rather than making progress being one of its features. Typically…

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

Civilization is drugs, alcohol, engines of war, prostitution, machines and machine slaves, low wages, bad food, bad taste, prisons, reformatories, lunatic asylums,…

— Henry Miller

The future of human liberty ... means the future of civilization.

— Henry Hazlitt

Movies are to our civilization what dreams and ideals are to individual lives: They express the mystery and help define the nature…

— Frank Pierson

When Western civilization invaded the Near and Far East and what is now called the Third World it imposed its own ideas…

— Paul Feyerabend

We the human species, are confronting a planetary emergency-a threat to the survival of our civilization that is gathering ominous and destructive…

— Al Gore

There can be no high civility without a deep morality

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

No matter what we call it, poison is still poison, death is still death, and industrial civilization is still causing the greatest…

— Derrick Jensen

The human race is doomed to sink back farther and farther into the primitive night ere again it begins its bloody climb…

— Jack London

New approaches are needed, new orientations in both thought and action. We must make the transition to a new civilization...We are talking…

— Mikhail Gorbachev

For in a civilization which has lost the meaning of life, the most important thing a Christian can do is to live,…

— Jacques Ellul

“Civilization depends on continually making the effort, of never giving in. It needs to be cared for by men of goodwill, protected…

— Iain Pears

The West may collapse very suddenly. Complex civilizations do that, because they operate, most of the time, on the edge of chaos.

— Niall Ferguson

Is not the history of real civilization the slow and gradual emancipation of the intellect, of the judgment, from the mastery of…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

We are in the twilight of this earth. The societies and civilizations of human beings will not endure much longer because of…

— Frederick Lenz

I don't believe civilization can do a lot more than educate a person's senses.

— Grace Paley

Through the wholesale destruction of the representatives of a class that from the beginning of history had been the directing and creative…

— Ralph Adams Cram

Not a single piece of material culture - not a single object - has been found at Giza that can be interpreted…

— Zahi Hawass