Civilization Quotes

2122 Civilization quotes by 1210 unique authors

The United States is just now the oldest country in the world, there always is an oldest country and she is it, it is she… — Gertrude Stein
There is a cheap literature that speaks to us of the need of escape. It is true that when we travel we are in search… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
The holistic acupuncturist and the sea turtle rescuer may not be able to explain the feeling, 'We are serving the same thing,' but they are.… — Charles Eisenstein
The present dominant values (xenophilia, cosmopolitanism, narcissistic individualism, humanitarianism, bourgeois economism, hedonism, homophilia, permissivenes, etc.) are actually anti-values - values of devirilising weakness, since they… — Guillaume Faye
So the Buddha is presenting awakening not as a single mystical experience that may come upon us at some meditation, some private moment of transcendence,… — Stephen Batchelor
Each time the dharma moved into a different civilization or historical period, it faced a twofold challenge: to maintain its integrity as an internally coherent… — Stephen Batchelor
It could be that at some earlier time, somewhere in the universe, a civilization evolved by probably some kind of Darwinian means to a very,… — Richard Dawkins
Artists are the gatekeepers of truth. We are civilization’s anchor. We are the compass for humanity’s conscience. — Harry Belafonte
I know a lot of Americans in Paris who have married Frenchmen. They keep bringing up their experience, the clash of civilizations, the clash of… — Leslie Caron
Give me civilization. I don't want to be pampered. — Jennifer Esposito
There's a completely new culture out there. I'm not a participant of texting and driving - or texting at all - but I see there's… — Werner Herzog
There are 400 billion stars out there, just in our galaxy alone. If just one out of a million of those had planets, and just… — Jodie Foster
First there was Greek civilization. Then there was the Renaissance. Now we’re entering the Age of the Ass. — Jean-Luc Godard
I think the health of our civilization, the depth of our awareness about the underpinnings of our culture, and our concern for the future, can… — Carl Sagan
I would be very ashamed of my civilization if we did not try to find out if there is life in outer space. — Carl Sagan
Industrial civilization is only possible when there's no self-denial. Self-indulgence up to the very limits imposed by hygiene and economics. Otherwise the wheels stop turning. — Aldous Huxley
I think [contacting an alien civilization] would be a disaster. The extraterrestrials would probably be far in advance of us. The history of advanced races… — Stephen Hawking
If a superior alien civilization sent us a message saying, 'We'll arrive in a few decades', would we just reply, 'OK, call us when you… — Stephen Hawking
You will find liberals always rooting for savages against civilization. — Ann Coulter
Gingrich - Primary mission, Advocate of civilization, Definer of civilization, Teacher of the rules of civilization, Leader of the civilizing forces. — Newt Gingrich
To be sure, the story of Hurricane Katrina does have a moral for anyone not deliberately blind. The races are different. Blacks and whites are… — Jared Taylor
The world's most 'primitive' people have few possessions, but they are not poor. Poverty is not a certain small amount of goods, nor is it… — Marshall Sahlins
I saw a photo of the Svoboda leader, Yatseniuk [Arseniy Yatseniuk, one of Batkivschyna leaders] and Klitschko [Vitali Klitschko, UDAR party leader] together demonstrating the… — Unknown Author
Any suggestion that Mexicans are fundamentally different from Americans should be taken as racist on its face; America, after all, is a pluralistic society, and… — David Plotz
Bombs fall and wipe out civilization as we know it, two things come up out of the ashes: roaches and F-150s. — James Sallis

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