Civilization Quotes

2122 Civilization quotes by 1210 unique authors

Family life was and always will be the foundation of any civilization. Destroy the family and you destroy the country. — Erin Pizzey
Love as a concrete foundation for an authentically functional civilization requires the around-the-clock labors of forgiveness. Without it, Love fails, Friendship fails, Intelligence fails, Humanity:… — Aberjhani
Ladies, you may not realize this, understand this, or even believe this, but everything else we do is ultimately for you. Men don't do anything-create… — Tucker Max
One of the effects of civilization is to diminish the rigour of the application of the law of natural selection. It preserves weakly lives that… — Francis Galton
We talk about civilization as though it's a static state. There are no civilized people yet, it's a process that's constantly going on... As long… — Jacque Fresco
The only hope for developing a new civilization is to accept responsibility for improving our lives through knowledge, understanding, and a deeper comprehension of humanity’s… — Jacque Fresco
As long as there are prisons, police, armies, navies; we are not civilized. When the Earth joins together and uses the Earth intelligently, that will be… — Jacque Fresco
Every system tries to get people to conform to support that system. That goes for communism, socialism, free enterprise, or any other civilization. If they… — Jacque Fresco
Far from being the smartest possible biological species, we are probably better thought of as the stupidest possible biological species capable of starting a technological… — Nick Bostrom
The civil liberty of every mode of worship, and full power given to all of openly and publicly manifesting their opinions and their ideas conduce… — Pope Pius IX
I think that a lot of people are in love with stress. It's the dirty little secret of Western civilization. People often mistake stress for… — Jerry Stahl
Beyond [known peoples of black West Africa] to the south there is no civilization in the proper sense. There are only humans who are closer… — Ibn Khaldun
Great numbers of children will be born who understand electronics and atomic power as well as other forms of energy. They will grow into scientists… — Edgar Cayce
Is one of the fairest portions of the globe to remain in a state of nature, the haunt of a few wretched savages, when it… — William Henry Harrison
There's never been a civilization, ever in history, that has embraced homosexuality and turned away from traditional fidelity and traditional marriage, traditional child rearing, and… — Pat Roberts
Ethiopians, that is, Negroes, gave the world the first idea of right and wrong and thus laid the basis of religion and all true culture… — Unknown Author
The history of civilization could actually be written in terms of the level of its women. — Fulton J. Sheen
Everything around a writer, or musician in the record business, probably everything in all the United States or in all of western civilization, is about… — T Bone Burnett
The West will continue to conquer peoples, even if it means a confrontation with another civilization, Islam, firmly entrenched where it was 1,400 years ago. — Silvio Berlusconi
What it values most of all is the sum total of events and the advance of civilization, which carries individuals along with it; but, indifferent… — Alfred de Vigny
The destructive impact of psychiatry upon our civilization has been given far too little attention, and the role of psychiatry in Nazi Germany almost no… — Peter Breggin
What I question is the extent to which any of us truly knows what the facts really are. I mistrust every ideal cherished in western… — Boyd Rice
No civilization, including Plato's, has ever been destroyed because its citizens learned too much. — Robert McKee
When urbanity decays, civilization suffers and decays with it. — James Norman Hall
The sentiments attributed to Christ are in the Old Testament. They were familiar in the Jewish schools and to all the Pharisees, long before the… — Joseph McCabe

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