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Civilization Quotes by Bertrand Russell
- From India to Spain, the brilliant civilization of Islam flourished. What was lost to christendom at this time was not lost to civilization, but quite…
- To us it seems that West-European civilization is civilization, but this is a narrow view.
- And all this madness, all this rage, all this flaming death of our civilization and our hopes, has been brought about because a set of…
- Against the vast majority of my countrymen, even at this moment, in the name of humanity and civilization, I protest against our share in the…
- The first essential character [of civilization], I should say, is forethought. This, I would say, is what distinguishes men from brutes and adults from children.
- Every advance in civilization has been denounced as unnatural while it was recent
- Whether science-and indeed civilization in general-can long survive depends upon psychology, that is to say, it depends upon what human beings desire.
- The military superiority of Europe to Asia is not an eternal law of nature, as we are tempted to think, and our superiority in civilization…
- The human heart as modern civilization has made it is more prone to hatred than to friendship. And it is prone to hatred because it…
- To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level.
- To be able to use leisure intelligently will be the last product of an intelligent civilization.
More Civilization Quotes
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- We released 400,000 classified documents, the most extraordinary history of a war to ever have been released in our civilization. Those documents… — Julian Assange
- Debt is part of the human condition. Civilization is based on exchanges - on gifts, trades, loans - and the revenges and… — Margaret Atwood
- The papacy again, representing the traditional unity of European civilization, has also shown itself unable to limit effectively the push of nationalism. — Irving Babbitt
- Civilization... wrecks the planet from seafloor to stratosphere. — Richard Bach
- Civilization is a youth with a molotov cocktail in his hand. Culture is the Soviet tank or L.A. cop that guns him… — Edward Abbey
- Imagination has brought mankind through the dark ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination led Columbus to discover America. Imagination led… — L. Frank Baum
- Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men. — Jane Addams
- Civilization exists precisely so that there may be no masses but rather men alert enough never to constitute masses. — Georges Bernanos
- Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization. — Ambrose Bierce
- In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from… — Ambrose Bierce