Civilization Quotes

2122 Civilization quotes by 1210 unique authors

Poverty is a national waste as well as individual waste. We are all diminished when any of us are denied proper education. The nation is… — Gough Whitlam
As long as civilization is essentially one of property, of fences, of exclusiveness, it will be mocked by delusions. Our riches will leave us sick;… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The sentence is the greatest human invention of civilization. — John Banville
My goal in life is to change the entire social and economic structure of western civilization, to make it a feminist world. — Marilyn French
Civilization has ceased to be that delicate flower which was preserved and painstakingly cultivated in one or two sheltered areas of a soil rich in… — Claude Levi-Strauss
What little wilderness remains displays the patterns we must return to, if our species and as many others as now remain are to persist here… — Stephanie Mills
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… — Bertrand Russell
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… — Bertrand Russell
The great question is, can war be outlawed from the world? If so, it would mark the greatest advance in civilization since the Sermon on… — Douglas MacArthur
War is a damnable, filthy thing and has destroyed civilization after civilization — Philip Noel-Baker, Baron Noel-Baker
I am convinced that love is the most durable power in the world. It is not an expression of impractical idealism, but of practical realism.… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
The biggest farce of man's history has been the argument that wars are fought to save civilization. — Charles E. McKenzie
Having a thirteen-year-old in the family is like having a general-admission ticket to the movies, radio and TV. You get to understand that the glittering… — Max Lerner
We are paying for and even submitting to the dictates of an ever increasing, unceasingly spawning class of human beings who never should have been… — Margaret Sanger
Wilderness is the raw material out of which man has hammered the artifact called civilization. — Aldo Leopold
How idiotic civilization is! Why be given a body if you have to keep it shut up in a case like a rare, rare fiddle? — Katherine Mansfield
This was life! Ah, how he loved it! Civilization held nothing like this in its narrow and circumscribed sphere, hemmed in by restrictions and conventionalities.… — Edgar Rice Burroughs
We've bought into the idea that education is about training and "success," defined monetarily, rather than learning to think critically and challenge. We should not… — Chris Hedges
The best defence [for a democracy, for the public good] is aggressiveness, the aggressiveness of the involved citizen. We need to reassert that slow, time-consuming,… — John Ralston Saul
Civilization is the process in which one gradually increases the number of people included in the term 'we' or 'us' and at the same time… — Unknown Author
Our civilization is locked in the grip of an ideology - corporatism. An ideology that denies and undermines the legitimacy of individuals as the citizen… — John Ralston Saul
The Empathic Civilization is emerging. A younger generation is fast extending its empathic embrace beyond religious affiliations and national identification to include the whole of… — Jeremy Rifkin
More than any other time in history, the 1990s will be a turning point for human civilization. — David Suzuki
Isn't the only hope for the planet that the industrialized civilizations collapse? Isn't it our responsibility to bring that about? — Maurice Strong
First, I worry about climate change. It's the only thing that I believe has the power to fundamentally end the march of civilization as we… — William J. Clinton

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