Civilization Quotes

2122 Civilization quotes by 1210 unique authors

We can dream of an America, and a world, in which love and not money are civilization's bottom line. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Civilization can only revive when there shall come into being in a number of individuals a new tone of mind independent of the one prevalent… — Albert Schweitzer
Unless man has the wit and the grit to build his civilization on something better than material power, it is surely idle to talk of… — Francis Bowes Sayre, Sr.
A dialogue among civilizations can be seen as a dialogue between the individual and the universal. — Abdelaziz Bouteflika
If the lives of men can be measured in terms of years, ideologies in decades, and nations in centuries, then the unit measuring civilizations, born… — Abdelaziz Bouteflika
Yet, history has shown that if material force can defeat some ideologies it can no longer obliterate a civilization without destabilizing the whole planet. — Abdelaziz Bouteflika
Many clever men like you have trusted to civilization. Many clever Babylonians, many clever Egyptians, many clever men at the end of Rome. Can you… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Every great movement in the history of Western civilization from the Carolingian age to the nineteenth century has been an international movement which owed its… — Christopher Dawson
George Bush doesn't represent any civilization! — George Galloway
The ultimate tendency of civilization is towards barbarism. — David Hare
Wherever an altar is found, there civilization exists. — Joseph de Maistre
The future of English fiction may rest with this Unknown Public - a reading public of three millions which lies right out of the pale… — Wilkie Collins
Legalized abortion is a national holocaust; an affront to our national character; a contradiction of established principles subscribed to from the beginning of Western Civilization;… — Chuck Baldwin
Are some free fonts a gift to humanity rather than a blight on typographic civilization ? — Ellen Lupton
A civilization can easily drown in what it knows as in what doesn't know. Consider,' he continued, Gotho's Folly. Gotho's curse was in being too… — Steven Erikson
Civilization after civilization, it is the same. The world falls to tyranny with a whisper. The frightened are ever keen to bow to a perceived necessity, in… — Steven Erikson
In the very end, civilizations perish because they listen to their politicians and not to their poets. — Jonas Mekas
Western civilization, unfortunately, does not link knowledge and morality but rather, it connects knowledge and power and makes them equivalent. — Vine Deloria, Jr.
It has been said that the position of woman is the test of civilization, and that of our women was secure. In them was vested… — Charles Alexander Eastman
I don't make a Bible argument in the ad, nor have I made a bible argument in the public space. My argument is simple, which… — Gary Bauer
Human civilization has been no more than a strange luminescence growing more intense by the hour, of which no one can say when it will… — W G Sebald
Everything our civilization has produced is entombed. — W G Sebald
What if a small group of these world leaders were to conclude the principal risk to the earth comes from the actions of the rich… — Maurice Strong
Scopes isn’t on trial; civilization is on trial. — Clarence Darrow
If we would have civilization and the exertion indispensable to its success, we must have property; if we have property, we must have its rights;… — James F. Cooper

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