Civilization Quotes

2122 Civilization quotes by 1210 unique authors

I would seriously question whether anybody is really foolish enough to really say what they mean. Sometimes I think that civilization as we know it… — Elizabeth Hurley
Fain would we remain barbarians, if our claim to civilization were to be based on the gruesome glory of war. — Okakura Kakuzo
Here the Frenchman, Spaniard, and Englishman all passed, leaving each his legend; and a brilliant and more or less feudal civilization with its aristocracy and… — Hervey Allen
We must not try to force him to take civilization immediately in its complete form, but under just laws, guaranteeing to Indians equal civil laws,… — George Crook
Humanity is looking for a new story. The one it has embraced since the Renaissance is no longer viable. Despite all of its positive contributions… — Edmund Bourne
The statistics of life out there and the statistics of intelligent beings and advanced civilization is a certainty, the way I look at it. It… — Story Musgrave
It's the Law of God that gave the stability to Christian civilization. — Randall Terry
Our schools are, in a sense, factories, in which the raw products (children) are to be shaped and fashioned into products to meet the various… — Unknown Author
God established the family as the foundation of civilization. — Tony Evans
If aliens from outer space ever come and we show them our civilization and they make fun of it, we should say we were just… — Jack Handey
Sometimes, when I drive across the desert in the middle of the night, with no other cars around, I start imagining: What if there were… — Jack Handey
One difference between savagery and civilization is a little courtesy. There's no telling what a lot of courtesy would do. — Cullen Hightower
The United States, and other advanced nations, will someday be able to produce instruments of death so terrible the world will be in abject terror… — Thomas A. Edison
In the last analysis civilization itself is measured by the way in which children will live and what chance they will have in the world — Mary Heaton Vorse
As long as our civilization is essentially one of property, of fences, of exclusiveness, it will be mocked by delusions. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
When I was a graduate student at Harvard, I learned about showers and central heating. Ten years later, I learned about breakfast meetings. These are… — Unknown Author
If I were starting life over again, I am inclined to think that I would go into the advertising business in preference to almost any… — Franklin D. Roosevelt
Would a NASA reality show "Lunar Shore" be more popular than "Jersey Shore?" Civilization's future depends on that answer. — Neil deGrasse Tyson
In our civilization men are afraid they will not be man enough, and women are afraid that they might be considered only women. — Theodor Reik
We should lay aside every hindrance and endeavour by uniting the whole force and spirit of our people to raise again a great British nation… — Winston Churchill
This knowledge, the knowledge that the physical well-being of the citizen is an important foundation for all of the activities of the nation, is as… — John F. Kennedy
A world government with powers adequate to guarantee security is not a remote ideal for the distant future. It is an urgent necessity if our… — Albert Einstein
There is no salvation for civilization, or even the human race, other than the creation of a world government. — Albert Einstein
Slavery as an institution that degraded man to a thing has never died out. In some periods of history it has flourished: many civilizations have… — Unknown Author
Strong drink stupefies a man and makes it possible for him to forget; it gives him an artificial cheeriness, an artificial excitement; and the pleasure… — Alexander Herzen

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