Civilization Quotes

2122 Civilization quotes by 1210 unique authors

The big lie perpetrated on Western society is the idea of women’s inferiority, a lie so deeply ingrained in our social behaviour that merely to… — Molly Haskell
And we owe science to the combined energies of individual men of genius, rather than to any tendency to progress inherent in civilization. — Chauncey Wright
America didn’t bypass or escape civilization. It did something far more profound, far cleverer: it simply changed what civilization could be. — A. A. Gill
My play is the ultimate expression of my feeling of the twilight of Western civilization. — Richard Foreman
It is pretty well settled that the city is the Negro's great contribution to civilization, for it was in Africa where the first cities grew… — E. Haldeman-Julius
Tutankhamun was not black, and the portrayal of ancient Egyptian civilization as black has no element of truth to it. — Zahi Hawass
Our civilization is characterized by the word "progress." Progress is its form rather than making progress being one of its features. Typically it constructs. It… — Ludwig Wittgenstein
The true law of the race is progress and development. Whenever civilization pauses in the march of conquest, it is overthrown by the barbarian. — William Gilmore Simms
There is little hope for us until we become tough-minded enough to break loose from the shackles of prejudice, half-truths, and downright ignorance. The shape… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
If civilization is in danger today... it will do so with the enthusiastic assistance of credulous people. They seem to me more dangerous than the… — Unknown Author
No university in the world has ever risen to greatness without a correspondingly great library... When this is no longer true, then will our civilization… — Lawrence Clark Powell
Civilization has taught man how to live in dense crowds, and by that very fact those crowds are likely ultimately to constitute a majority of… — Charles Galton Darwin
Roddenberry had his own utopian vision about he perfectibility of man, and I never really believed that. And I don’t think the show demonstrates that.… — Nicholas Meyer
As the publisher of the 'Tory,' I strive to defend the pillars of Western civilization against the distractions of diversity. — Pete Hegseth
I came home from Portugal convinced that nothing is so important as making known what the Mother of God asked in those apparitions of 1917… — William Thomas Walsh
The significance of the vast Islamic scientific tradition for Muslims and especially for young Muslims today is not only that it gives them a sense… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr
It oughtn't to need a war to make us talk to each other in buses, and invent our own amusements in the evenings, and live… — Jan Struther
This peace is not the absence of anything. Real peace is the presence of something beautiful. Both peace and the thirst for it have been… — Prem Rawat
Hate-on-the-highway is an institution occupying a high place in our modern civilization....The godawful glares that drivers exchange as they pass each other, the mutual hatred… — H. Allen Smith
The public realm in America has two roles: it is the dwelling place of our civilization and our civic life, and it is the physical… — James Howard Kunstler
Civilization is hideously fragile... there's not much between us and the Horrors underneath, just about a coat of varnish. — Carrie P Snow
Is a planetary surface the right place for an expanding technological civilization? — Gerard K. O'Neill
A lot of people thought of me as a threat to Western civilization. — John Milius
We might as well expect to grow trees from leaves as hope to build up a civilization or a manhood without taking into consideration our… — Anna Julia Cooper
The civilization of a country consists in the quality of life that is lived there, and this quality shows plainest in the things that people… — Albert J. Nock

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