Civilization Quotes

2122 Civilization quotes by 1210 unique authors

I often think . . . that the bookstores that will save civilization are not online, nor on campuses, nor named Borders, Barnes & Noble,… — James V. Schall
We've been playing games since humanity had civilization - there is something primal about our desire and our ability to play games. It's so deep-seated… — Jane McGonigal
Here is a fact: nothing in all civilization has been as productive as ludicrous ambition. Whatever its ills, nothing has created more. Cathedrals, sonatas, encyclopedias:… — Tom Rachman
AIDS is a global problem and there should be a global solution found by the entire international community. It is really scary to see and… — Sarah Polley
With engaging prose, Engelman takes readers on a delightful journey?that both entertains and educates ? of modern civilization and women's central role to ensuring the… — Unknown Author
Promises controversy on a scale not seen since Samuel Huntington’s Clash of Civilizations sought to reframe a new world order. — Stefan Halper
There's a fundamental difference between people who want to see the Internet and say - 'Let's lobotomize and censor parts of it because we need… — Ben Huh
A chair is the first thing you need when you don’t really need anything, and is therefore a peculiarly compelling symbol of civilization. For it… — Ralph Caplan
The Imaginative Child will become the imaginative man or woman most apt to create, to invent, and therefore to foster civilization — L. Frank Baum
NOISE, n. A stench in the ear. Undomesticated music. The chief product and authenticating sign of civilization. — Ambrose Bierce
The moon invented natural rhythm. Civilization uninvented it. — Tom Robbins
Civilization is the intelligent management of human emotions. — Jim Rohn
The future of human liberty ... means the future of civilization. — Henry Hazlitt
In perhaps 50 years, 60 years, we can finish completely this civilization, and offer to our children the possibility to invent a new story, a… — Philippe Starck
For 200 years, the West has been so dominant in the world that it's not really needed to understand other cultures, other civilizations. Because, at… — Martin Jacques
... love was an illusion which civilization had produced to give a little order to the frequency of the sex act. — Christer Kihlman
Violence is not necessary to destroy a civilization. Each civilization dies from indifference toward the unique values which created it. — Nicolas Gomez Davila
Elvis Presley is the main founding father of rock music. He was an unheralded genius behind a new music that changed western civilization for all time. — Peter Noone
A Christian people who have for two hundred years kept a race in bondage, deprived of the advantages of civilization and religion, owe them a… — Nelson A. Miles
Many countries today have begun the transition from an industrial wealth system and civilization to a knowledge-based system - without appreciating that a new wealth… — Alvin Toffler
Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. Without books, the development… — Barbara Tuchman
Wherever the Bible has been consistently applied, it has dramatically changed the civilization and culture of those who have accepted its teaching. No other book… — John F Walvoord
We want women leaders today as never before. Leaders who are not afraid to be called names and who are willing to go out and… — Emily Murphy
Despite all the progress of civilization, women have remained exactly as they emerged from the hand of Nature. — Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
Cities are the least permanent things in our civilization. — Reynolds Price

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