Civilization Quotes

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Our society must make it right and possible for old people not to fear the young or be deserted by them, for the test of… — Pearl S. Buck
The condition of the tribes which occupy the country set apart for them in the West is highly prosperous, and encourages the hope of their… — Martin Van Buren
Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years. — John Burroughs
Iraq is no diversion. It is a place where civilization is taking a decisive stand against chaos and terror, we must not waver. — George W. Bush
Personally, my interests are ancient history and ancient civilizations. In my own life, I'd like to go to places like Easter Island. — Nicolas Cage
God makes it really clear that society and civilization is really held together by the glue of families... When a man and a woman come… — Kirk Cameron
The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion. — Thomas Carlyle
Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the… — Winston Churchill
A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed. — Emile M. Cioran
Egypt gave birth to what later would become known as 'Western Civilization,' long before the greatness of Greece and Rome. — John Henrik Clarke
The role of religions in the domination and destruction of African civilizations was ruthless... Islam was as guilty as all the rest. — John Henrik Clarke
America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization. — Georges Clemenceau
Sensible and responsible women do not want to vote. The relative positions to be assumed by man and woman in the working out of our… — Grover Cleveland
Over-civilization and barbarism are within an inch of each other. And a mark of both is the power of medicine-men. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Civilization has run on ahead of the soul of man, and is producing faster than he can think and give thanks. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
When people talk as if the Crusades were nothing more than an aggressive raid against Islam, they seem to forget in the strangest way that… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
That which lies before the human race is a constant struggle to maintain and improve, in opposition to State of Nature, the State of Art… — Thomas Huxley
...if we want to meet the obligations of our civilization and our culture which are to create communities for our children that provide them with… — Robert Kennedy
Hospitals are only an intermediate stage of civilization, never intended ... to take in the whole sick population. May we hope that the day will… — Florence Nightingale
The sum total of each man's giving determines the standard of man's civilization. — Walter Russell

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