Civilization Quotes

2122 Civilization quotes by 1210 unique authors

The United States has lost her unique position as a leader in the progress of civilization and has taken up her place simply as one… — Charles Eliot Norton
The war of ideas is a Greek invention. It is one of the most important inventions ever made. Indeed, the possibility of fighting with with… — Karl Popper
Today, human civilization is drowning in a sea of lies. — L. Neil Smith
If our civilization is destroyed, it will not be by barbarians from below. Our barbarians come from above. — Henry Demarest Lloyd
Slavery is the first step towards civilization. In order to develop it is necessary that things should be much better for some and much worse… — Alexander Herzen
By the same right under which France took Flanders, Lorraine and Alsace, and will sooner or later take Belgium -- by that same right Germany… — Friedrich Engels
The world generally speaking is now drifting on a more and more devastating course towards the absurd target of extermination - or rather, to be… — Alva Myrdal
The age in which we live can only be characterized as one of barbarism. Our civilization is in the process not only of being militarized,… — Alva Myrdal
The great lie is that it is civilization. It's not civilized. It has been literally the most blood thirsty brutalizing system ever imposed upon this… — John Trudell
There were 5 Exabytes of information created between the dawn of civilization through 2003, but that much information is now created every 2 days. — Eric Schmidt
We were discussing civilization and the fact that young men among the Greeks at that time were idiots and uneducated, so the men had emotional… — Marion Zimmer Bradley
Forests precede civilizations and deserts follow them. — FranÃ§ois-RenÃ© de Chateaubriand
Spanish civilization crushed the Indian. English civilization scorned and neglected him. French civilization embraced and cherished him. — Francis Parkman
Every marvel of our age arose out of the critical give and take of an open society. No other civilization ever managed to incorporate this… — David Brin
And I cried… for all of the women who stretched their bodies for civilizations, only to find ruins. — Sonia Sanchez
Civilization’s shortening attention span is mismatched with the pace of environmental problems. — Stewart Brand
Deception is a developed art of civilization and the most potent weapon in the game of power — Robert Greene
Architecture belongs to culture, not to civilization. — Alvar Aalto
One of the most pathetic aspects of human history is that every civilization expresses itself most pretentiously, compounds its partial and universal values most convincingly,… — Reinhold Niebuhr
What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions. Life is plurality, death is uniformity. By suppressing differences and pecularities,… — Octavio Paz
There are those who say that when civilization progresses a bit further transportation facilities will move into the skies and under the ground, and that… — Junichiro Tanizaki
We all are born with a certain package. We are who we are: where we were born, who we were born as, how we were… — Roger Ebert
Tolerance is the only real test of civilization. — Arthur Helps
The 'tide in the affairs of men' does not remain at the flood; it ebbs. We may cry out desperately for time to pause in… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Unless we redesign our civilization in numerous ways, all of the science in the world won't save us. — William H. Calvin

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