Civilization Quotes

2122 Civilization quotes by 1210 unique authors

What's at risk [in 100 years] if we do not take action, truly is the survival of civilization as we know it... Literally that is… — Al Gore
Global warming is not a threat. But environmentalism's response to it is....Even if global warming is a fact, the free citizens of an industrial civilization… — George Reisman
You see that pale, blue dot? That's us. Everything that has ever happened in all of human history, has happened on that pixel. All the… — Al Gore
Modern civilization is a product of an energy binge. Binges often end in hangovers. — Alfred W. Crosby
Saving Greenland is both a metaphor and a precondition for saving civilization. If its ice sheet melts, sea levels will rise 23 feet. Hundreds of… — Lester R. Brown
If we would reach a degree of civilization higher and grander than any yet attained, we should welcome to our ample continent all nations, kindreds… — Frederick Douglass
Unless we stop dumping 70 million tons of global warming pollution into the atmosphere every 24 hours, which we are doing right now ... the… — Al Gore
There was something horrifying in the realization that, in this twenty-first century of what we call 'civilization,' we have carved up what we claim is… — Howard Zinn
A commercial civilization is money-oriented, profit-oriented. Commercial values always tend to wrench a society free of tradition.Economics from education to public service is being reorganized… — John Ralston Saul
The reward of commercial civilization is the ability to consume a never-ending array of products.There are limits beyond which commodities cannot be multiplied without preventing… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
We can tentatively credit capitalist civilization with a positive, if very geographically uneven, record in the struggle against disease. — Immanuel Wallerstein
Wars between states and people seem to have existed under all historical systems for as long as we have some recorded evidence. War is quite… — Immanuel Wallerstein
What is different in capitalist civilization has been two things. First, the process of meritocracy has been proclaimed as an official virtue instead of being… — Immanuel Wallerstein
Historical capitalism is a materialist civilization. — Immanuel Wallerstein
Are there still other possibilities? Of course there are. What is important to recognize is that all three historical options are really there, and the… — Immanuel Wallerstein
The Roman Pontiff can, and ought to, reconcile himself, and come to terms with progress, liberalism and modern civilization. — Pope Pius IX
Yes, the civilization of love is possible; it is not a utopia. But it is only possible by a constant and ready reference to the… — Pope John Paul II
Utilitarianism is a civilization of production and of use, a civilization of "things" and not of "persons," a civilization in which persons are used in… — Pope John Paul II
It is Hell, of course, that makes priests powerful, not Heaven, for after thousands of years of so-called civilization fear remains the one common denominator… — H. L. Mencken
If we did not take action to solve this crisis, it could indeed threaten the future of human civilization. That sounds shrill. It sounds hard… — Al Gore
Fairness is an efficiency parameter if we look at the whole global civilization. It is not an efficient way of meeting human needs if one… — Karl-Henrik Robert
Morals are not the important thing-nor enlightenment-nor civilization. A man can do absolutely well without them, but he can't do without something to eat. The… — Mark Twain
The human drama is reaching its denouement. The great unveiling is approaching, a time when the power structures of the world begin to crumble and… — Anodea Judith
The character of Anglo-American civilization . . . is the product . . . of two perfectly distinct elements that elsewhere have often made war… — Alexis de Tocqueville
Nations are beginning to look to some vague organization, some nebulous course of humanity, to pay their bills and tell them what to do. This… — Calvin Coolidge

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