Civilization Quotes

2122 Civilization quotes by 1210 unique authors

We do not see faith, hope, and charity as unattainable ideals, but we use them as stout supports of a nation fighting the fight for… — Franklin D. Roosevelt
Access to knowledge is the superb, the supreme act of truly great civilizations. Of all the institutions that purport to do this, free libraries stand… — Toni Morrison
No civilization other than that which is Christian, is worth seeking or possessing. — Otto von Bismarck
Civilization will end within 15 or 30 years unless immediate action is taken against problems facing mankind. — George Wald
Civilization has little to fear from educated people and brain-workers. In them the replacement of religious motives for civilized behaviors by other, secular motives, would… — Sigmund Freud
Agitators are a set of interfering, meddling people, who come down to some perfectly contented class of the community and sow the seeds of discontent… — Oscar Wilde
What most people don't seem to realize is that there is just as much money to be made out of the wreckage of a civilization… — Margaret Mitchell
Many people correctly make the point that our only hope is to turn to God. For example, Charles Lindbergh, who said that in his young… — Marion G. Romney
Most of these people will never make the headlines and their names will not appear in Who's Who. Yet when years have rolled past and… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Books are the building blocks of civilization and a people without books are a people without history, a people with no story older than the… — Louis L'Amour
But the greatest menace to our civilization today is the conflict between giant organized systems of self-righteousness - each system only too delighted to find… — Herbert Butterfield
Dining is the privilege of civilization. . . . The nation which knows how to dine has learnt the leading lesson of progress. — Isabella Beeton
Coal is the single greatest threat to civilization and all life on our planet. — James Hansen
I think governments are the cancer of civilization. — Chuck D
Civilization is an active deposit which is formed by the combustion of the present with the past. Neither in countries without a Present nor in… — Cyril Connolly
America became a great civilization thanks to a culture based on the value of having to earn almost everything an American got in life. As… — Dennis Prager
Prejudices are the props of civilization. — Andre Gide
Ideas are the factors that lift civilization. They create revolutions. There is more dynamite in an idea than in many bombs. — John H. Vincent
Man is a thinking animal, a talking animal, a toolmaking animal, a building animal, a political animal, a fantasizing animal. But, in the twilight of… — Hugh MacLennan
It is so basic. A human being is an innocent part of nature. Our civilization has distorted this universal quality that allows us to feel… — Ruth Bernhard
Under the continual contact with the pebbles my feet have become hardened and used to the ground. My body, almost constantly nude, no longer suffers… — Paul Gauguin
Sex-appeal is the keynote of our whole civilization. — Henri Bergson
The man who sat on the ground in his tipi meditating on life and its meaning, accepting the kinship of all creatures and acknowledging unity… — Luther Standing Bear
This the American Black man knows: his fight is a fight to the finish. Either he dies or he wins. He will enter modern civilization… — W. E. B. Du Bois
"Civilization" has been thrust upon me since the days of the reservations, and it has not added one whit to my sense of justice, to… — Luther Standing Bear

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