Civilization Quote by Bruce Cockburn

Let us not forget that the cultivation of the earth is the most important labor of man. When tillage begins, other arts will follow.…

— Daniel Webster

Not much was really invented during the Renaissance, if you don't count modern civilization.

— P. J. O'Rourke

America is a nation that conceives many odd inventions for getting somewhere but it can think of nothing to do once it gets there.

— Will Rogers

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

— Richard Wright

People never knew we were poor, but out of that poverty came the most incredible inventions - board games, recipes... we never stopped inventing.

— Lynn Johnston

Civilization is first of all a moral thing. Without truth, respect for duty, love of neighbor, and virtue, everything is destroyed. The morality of…

— Henri Frederic Amiel

Civilization could not exist until there was written language, because without written language no generation could bequeath to succeeding generations anything but its simpler…

— Charlton Laird

The way I think we were living is an invention. The truth is nobody can own anything. That was an unheard-of concept among indigenous…

— Tom Shadyac

For centuries we have been living in the society where not laws but people ruled, where there was no legal state.

— Nursultan Nazarbayev

You know when civilization began? With the invention of the mirror.

— Shimon Peres

I know that everything essential and great originated from the fact that the human being had a homeland and was rooted in tradition.

— Martin Heidegger

Civilizations rise and fall on confidence. America had figured out a way to borrow money to manufacture it.

— Ron Suskind