Civilization Quotes

2122 Civilization quotes by 1210 unique authors

In civilizations without boats, dreams dry up, espionage takes the place of adventure and the police take the place of pirates. — Michel Foucault
If we wish our civilization to survive we must break with the habit of deference to great men. — Karl Popper
Upon the sacredness of property civilization itself depends-the right of the laborer to his hundred dollars in the savings bank, and equally the legal right… — Andrew Carnegie
It is Love that will save our world and our civilization. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Real freedom lies in wildness, not in civilization. — Charles Lindbergh
Civilization never recedes; the law of necessity ever forces it onwards. — Jules Verne
Artists are a free society's greatest advocates and its best bulwarks. Their triumphs are civilization's triumphs. — Andres Serrano
Today, however, those things which occupy us in the field of education are the interests of humanity at large and of civilization, and before such… — Maria Montessori
Literature, art, like civilization itself, are only accidents. — Joyce Carol Oates
Sunday is the core of our civilization, dedicated to thought and reverence. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The wisdom and spirit of Churchill not only saved Britain from the Third Reich but saved Western civilization from a Nazi Dark Ages when no… — Victor Davis Hanson
Anything that we scientists can do to weaken the hold of religion, should be done and may, in fact, in the end, be our greatest… — Steven Weinberg
Every civilization depends on the quality of the individuals it produces. If you over-organize humans, over-legalize them, suppress their urge to greatness-they cannot work and… — Frank Herbert
You may as well know, also, that every great leader, from the dawn of civilization down to the present, was a dreamer. — Napoleon Hill
Women's fight for equal rights is essentially a humanist and peaceful struggle for true democracy, and a higher form of civilization. — Leyla Zana
A German immersed in any civilization different from his own loses a weight equivalent in volume to the amount of intelligence he displaces. — Jose Bergamin
Solidarity, compassion, caring, communion and loving. Such values and inner powers can lay the foundation of a new paradigm of civilization, the civilization of the… — Leonardo Boff
Our civilization depends critically on software, and we have a dangerously low degree of professionalism in the computer fields — Bjarne Stroustrup
A 'civilization' that makes such a ridiculous fuss about alleged 'war crimes' - acts of violence against the actual or potential enemies of one's cause… — Savitri Devi
I trust the time is nigh when, with the universal assent of civilized people, all international differences shall be determined without resort to arms by… — Chester A. Arthur
I consider that there are different degrees of civilization and there are many different ways of expressing it. But one is civilized or is not. — Flora Lewis
The Industrial Revolution was another one of those extraordinary jumps forward in the story of civilization. — Stephen Gardiner
If we believe in the rebirth of our civilization... then clearly this renaissance must begin in the chambers of our own hearts... We cannot wait… — Georg Feuerstein
When blacks are left entirely to their own devices, Western civilization—any kind of civilization—disappears. — Jared Taylor
The worship of the state is the worship of force. There is no more dangerous menace to civilization than a government of incompetent, corrupt, or… — Ludwig von Mises

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