Civilization Quotes

2122 Civilization quotes by 1210 unique authors

In my opinion there is no other salvation for civilization and even for the human race than the creation of a world government with security… — Albert Einstein
Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for education... no nation is rich enough to pay… — Abraham Flexner
Primitiveness and civilization are degrees of the same thing. If civilization has an opposite, it is war. — Ursula K. Le Guin
Resort to science has rendered modern war so destructive of life and property that it presents a new problem to mankind, such, that unless our… — Unknown Author
As a student of history, I also know civilization's debt to Islam. — Barack Obama
The key is the Internet. The United States is by far the most advanced country in this new digital culture, so we have to be… — Carlos Slim
Civilization is not a spontaneous generation with any race or nation known to history, but the torch to be handed from race to race from… — Kelly Miller
Nearly all great civilizations that perished did so because they had crystallized, because they were incapable of adapting themselves to new conditions, new methods, new… — Eleanor Roosevelt
We must remember that any oppression, any injustice, any hatred, is a wedge designed to attack our civilization. — Franklin D. Roosevelt
Women know the damnation of charity because the habit of civilization has always been to throw them cheap alms rather than give them good wages. — Rebecca West
You think that a wall as solid as the earth separates civilization from barbarism. I tell you the division is a thread, a sheet of… — John Buchan
The refusal of the British and Russian peoples to accept what appeared to be inevitable defeat was the great factor in the salvage of our… — George C. Marshall
If modern civilization man had to kill the animals he eats, the number of vegetarians would rise astronomically. — Christian Morgenstern
Every mode of transport that we use - whether it's planes, trains, automobiles, bikes, horses - is reusable, but not rockets. So we must solve… — Elon Musk
By his very success in inventing labor-saving devices, modern man has manufactured an abyss of boredom that only the privileged classes in earlier civilizations have… — Lewis Mumford
Without memory, there is no culture. Without memory, there would be no civilization, no society, no future. — Elie Wiesel
True Civilization does not lie in gas, nor in steam, nor in turn-tables. It lies in the reduction of the traces of original sin. — Charles Baudelaire
The fact is, that civilization requires slaves. Human slavery is wrong, insecure, and demoralizing. On mechanical slavery, on the slavery of the machine, the future… — Oscar Wilde
We have known the bitterness of defeat and the exultation of triumph, and from both we have learned there can be no turning back. We… — Douglas MacArthur
Air power may either end war or end civilization. — Winston Churchill
The real triumph of civilization is the extent to which coercion is banished from human relations. — Anthony Gregory
War: A wretched debasement of all the pretenses of civilization. — Omar N. Bradley
If men do not now succeed in abolishing war, civilization and mankind are doomed. — Ludwig von Mises
Wherever man exists, he finds the need to redesign, to recreate the world. A more beautiful world, purer, sweeter smelling and more colorful. A garden… — Gary Snyder
Fertility of the soil is the future of civilization. — Albert Howard

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