Augustus Quote by Augustus William Hare

Civilization - and by this I do not mean talking cinemas and tinned food, nor even surgery and hygienic houses, but the whole moral…

— Evelyn Waugh

The praise of a civilized world is justly due to Christianity;—war, by the influence of the humane principles of that religion, has been stripped…

— Alexander Hamilton

“Looking at the sweep of Christian history, we are often reminded of this message of the transience of human affairs, and, based on that,…

— Philip Jenkins

But herein lies the rub: Christianity has been on a long-term trend of decline in every Western cultural context that we can identify.

— Alan Hirsch

Christianity ruined emperors, but saved peoples.

— Alfred de Musset

“Civilization – and by this I do not mean talking cinemas and tinned food, nor even surgery and hygienic houses, but the whole moral…

— Evelyn Waugh

From India to Spain, the brilliant civilization of Islam flourished. What was lost to christendom at this time was not lost to civilization, but…

— Bertrand Russell

Civilization is not necessary before Christianity; do both together if you will, but you will find civilization follow Christianity more easily than Christianity follow…

— Samuel Marsden

No true civilization can be expected permanently to continue which is not based on the great principles of Christianity.

— Tryon Edwards

what about Christianity? Are we right in the face of so long a record of its poverty in international achievement, to keep invoking it…

— Rose Macaulay

Despite its protests to the contrary, modern Christianity has become willy-nilly the religion of the state and the economic status quo. Because it has…

— Wendell Berry

Christianity is the very root and foundation of Western civilization.

— Dinesh D'Souza