Civilization Quotes

2122 Civilization quotes by 1210 unique authors

As we enter the 21st Century it is clear that we have entered an unprecedented global age in which our diverse cultures, religions, philosophies, worldviews… — Ashok Gangadean
Civilization is in no immediate danger of running out of energy or even just out of oil. But we are running out of environment-that is,… — Unknown Author
Civilization no longer needs to open up wilderness; it needs wilderness to help open up the still largely unexplored human mind. — David Wallace
Unless modern civilization is a failure, it is entirely feasible and practicable for two races in such essential political, economic and religious harmony as the… — W. E. B. Du Bois
You may have practical ethics and that kind of thing, but there is no spirituality in any aspect of our Western civilization. Our religious life… — Unknown Author
Civilization sails prettily like a child's rubber balloon until it hits a sharp object; then it is likely to collapse like the balloon. — Austin O'Malley
Civilization is the world with its leg asleep. — Austin O'Malley
Civilization comes at a cost of manliness. It comes at a cost of wildness, of risk, of strife. It comes at a cost of strength,… — Jack Donovan
Strength, Courage, Mastery, and Honor are the alpha virtues of men all over the world. They are the fundamental virtues of men because without them,… — Jack Donovan
If men can be made to understand that society, with its rigid codes and stratifications, is in its confused infancy rather than in the apex… — Joost Meerloo
When authoritative reports of radical-design craft having spectacular performance are viewed in the light of a stream of astrobiological discoveries, the possibility that some UFOs… — Don Berliner
What’s looming in the shadows of our ignorance and denial is a critique of civilization itself. — Lierre Keith
In the same way that banks succeeded at privatizing the profits and socializing the losses as they led the global economy to the brink of… — Unknown Author
Greek customs such as wine drinking were regarded as worthy of imitation by other cultures. So the ships that carried Greek wine were carrying Greek… — Tom Standage
I didn't go to bookshops to buy. That's a little bourgeois. I went because they were civilized places. It made me happy there were people… — Jerry Pinto
To provide its happy people with perpetual fun is now the deepest purpose of Western civilization. — Jeremy Seabrook
The right tools for solving disputes within our community are precision instruments such as reason, communication, empathy, curiosity, and understanding. They are also the right… — Paul K. Chappell
A warming of this magnitude would risk the end of civilization as we know it by the end of this century. — Unknown Author
One of the tests of the civilization of people is the treatment of its criminals. — Rutherford B. Hayes
Next to the right of liberty, the right of property is the most important individual right guaranteed by the Constitution and the one which, united… — William Howard Taft
Revolution is the larva of civilization. — Victor Hugo
I have to bring to your notice a terrifying reality: with the development of nuclear weapons Man has acquired, for the first time in history,… — Joseph Rotblat
This is the reality of nuclear weapons: they may trigger a world war; a war which, unlike previous ones, destroys all of civilization. — Joseph Rotblat
Not everything in man's life is summed up in the problem of food. Anyone who thinks that a civilization can be founded on bread alone… — Toyohiko Kagawa
Is not the history of real civilization the slow and gradual emancipation of the intellect, of the judgment, from the mastery of passion? Is not… — Robert Green Ingersoll

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