Civilization Quotes

2122 Civilization quotes by 1210 unique authors

I should like to say that I am as proud of my Chinese heritage and background as I am devoted to modern science, a part… — Chen-Ning Yang
No ancient story, not even Homer's Iliad or Odyssey, has remained as popular through the course of time. The story of Rama appears as old… — David Frawley
Sharing is the essence of teaching. It is, I have come to believe, the essence of civilization...Without it, the imagination is but the echo of… — Bill Moyers
Marriage is the beginning and pinnacle of civilization. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
A great civilization is not conquered from without, until it has destroyed itself from within. The essential causes of Rome's decline lay in her people,… — Will Durant
In careless ignorance they think it civilization, when in reality it is a portion of their slavery...To ravage, to slaughter, to usurp under false pretenses,… — Tacitus
Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. — Ayn Rand
The first essential character [of civilization], I should say, is forethought. This, I would say, is what distinguishes men from brutes and adults from children. — Bertrand Russell
Every attempt, by whatever authority, to fix a maximum of productive labor by a given worker in a given time is an unjust restriction upon… — Nicholas Murray Butler
It is well for civilization that human beings constantly strive to gain greater and greater rewards, for it is this urge, this ambition, this aspiration… — B. C. Forbes
A slight daily unconscious luxury is hardly ever wanting to the dwellers in civilization; like the gentle air of a genial climate, it is a… — Walter Bagehot
Every advance in civilization has been denounced as unnatural while it was recent — Bertrand Russell
Why does one want to walk wings? Why force one's body from a plane to make a parachute jump? Why should man want to fly… — Charles Lindbergh
I do not believe the greatest threat to our future is from bombs or guided missiles. I don't think our civilization will die that way.… — Unknown Author
Justice has nothing to do with victor nations and vanquished nations, but must be a moral standard that all the world's peoples can agree to.… — Hideki Tojo
Thus we behold Kentucky, lately an howling wilderness, the habitation of savages and wild beasts, become a fruitful field; this region, so favourably distinguished by… — Daniel Boone
This civilization is rapidly passing away, however. Let us rejoice or else lament the fact as much as everyone of us likes; but do not… — Joseph A. Schumpeter
The culture of a civilization is the art and literature through which it rises to consciousness of itself and defines its vision of the world. — Roger Scruton
The solution to women’s issues can only be achieved in a free and democratic society in which human energy is liberated, the energy of both… — Tawakkol Karman
Saving civilization is not a spectator sport. — Lester R. Brown
Prior to the advent of the civilization of the Third Estate (mercantilism, capitalism), the social ethics that was religiously sanctioned in the West consisted in… — Julius Evola
The closest Western Civilization has come to unity since the Congress of Vienna in 1815 was the week the Sgt. Pepper album was released.. .… — Langdon Winner
The discovery of printing in the middle of the fifteenth century implied the beginning of a return to a type of civilization dominated by the… — Harold Innis
The method of doubt must be applied to civilization; we must doubt its necessity, its excellence, and its permanence. — Charles Fourier
To me, every fundamentalist Muslim, no matter how peaceable in his own behavior, is part of a murderous movement and is thus, in some fashion,… — Daniel Pipes

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