Civilization Quotes

2122 Civilization quotes by 1210 unique authors

There is something even more valuable to civilization than wisdom, and that is character. — H. L. Mencken
My opposition to war is not based upon pacifist or non-resistant principles. It may be that the present state of civilization is such that certain… — Henry Ford
Next to the striking of fire and the discovery of the wheel, the greatest triumph of what we call civilization was the domestication of the… — Max Lerner
To rescue from oblivion even a fragment of a language which men have used and which is in danger of being lost -that is to… — Victor Hugo
No civilization would ever have been possible without a framework of stability, to provide the wherein for the flux of change. Foremost among the stabilizing… — Hannah Arendt
Civilization...is a matter of imponderables, of delight in the thins of the mind, of love of beauty, of honor, grace, courtesy, delicate feeling. Where imponderables,… — Edith Hamilton
Every problem that the country faces is being solved in some community by some group or some individual. The question is how to get connected… — George H. W. Bush
We must have no carelessness in our dealings with public property or the expenditure of public money. Such a condition is characteristic either of an… — Calvin Coolidge
"It is against their own insoluble problem of being human that the dull and base in humanity are in revolt in anti-Semitism. Judaism, nevertheless, together… — Unknown Author
Gay people are not in the habit of thinking of ourselves as leading our civilization, and yet we do. — Judy Grahn
The sickness of the individual is ultimately caused by and sustained by the sickness of his civilization — Herbert Marcuse
Nobody before the Pythagorean had thought that mathematical relations held the secret of the universe. Twenty-five centuries later, Europe is still blessed and cursed with… — Arthur Koestler
If a test of civilization be sought, none can be so sure as the condition of that half of society over which the other half… — Harriet Martineau
He felt himself in suspension between the two worlds, the warm, neat civilization behind his back, the cool, dark mystery outside. We all write poems;… — John Fowles
The evidence that at least one extraterrestrial civilization has visited Earth is extensive both in scope and detail. In its totality it comprises a body… — Steven M. Greer
We have to learn to deal with this situation and prepare for contact. Studying the behavior pattern of the phenomenon, I came to the conclusion… — Michael Hesemann
A contact with an extraterrestrial civilization is the greatest challenge for mankind in the Third Millennium. We would finally realize that we are indeed not… — Michael Hesemann
It pleased God to make one nation the medium of all His communications with mankind: This the nation of the Jews has done to a… — Joseph Priestley
I've been asked about UFOs and I've said publicly I thought they were somebody else, some other civilization. — Gene Cernan
The possibility of reduced-time interstellar travel either by advanced extraterrestrial civilizations at present or ourselves in the future, is not fundamentally constrained by physical principles. — Unknown Author
Several days in a row we sighted groups of metallic, saucer-shaped vehicles at great altitudes over the base Germany, 1951 and we tried to get… — Gordon Cooper
Statistically it's a certainty there are hugely advanced civilizations, intelligences, life forms out there. I believe they're so advanced they're even doing interstellar travel. I… — Story Musgrave
The skylines lit up at dead of night, the air-conditioning systems cooling empty hotels in the desert and artificial light in the middle of the… — Jean Baudrillard
The reason for the slow progress of the world seems to lie in a single fact. Every man is born under the yoke, and grows… — John Jay Chapman
The keynote of American civilization is a sort of warm-hearted vulgarity. The Americans have none of the irony of the English, none of their cool… — Raymond Chandler

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