Civilization Quotes

2122 Civilization quotes by 1210 unique authors

Understanding the times means understanding the course of history and civilization, as well as understanding the present situation. If we understand how God guides the… — James B. Jordan
As civilization advances, the sense of wonder declines. Such decline is an alarming symptom of our state of mind. Mankind will not perish for want… — Abraham Joshua Heschel
When we send our children to school, they learn nothing about us other than we used to be cotton pickers. Why, your grandfather was Nat… — Malcolm X
The first great thing is to find yourself and for that you need solitude and contemplation - at least sometimes. I can tell you deliverance… — Fridtjof Nansen
I believe that science is the engine of prosperity, that if you look around at the wealth of civilization today, it's the wealth that comes… — Michio Kaku
Civilization depends upon the vigorous pursuit of the highest values by people who are intelligent enough to know that their values are qualified by their… — Reinhold Niebuhr
The question is not whether there is intelligent life out there, the question is, whether there is intelligent life down here. As long as you… — Jacque Fresco
It is not the child as a physical but as a psychic being that can provide a strong impetus to the betterment of mankind. It… — Maria Montessori
The curse of poverty has no justification in our age. It is socially as cruel and blind as the practice of cannibalism at the dawn… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Every civilization when it loses its inner vision and its cleaner energy, falls into a new sort of sordidness, more vast and more stupendous than… — D. H. Lawrence
Economics must not be relegated to classrooms and statistical offices and must not be left to esoteric circles. It is the philosophy of human life… — Ludwig von Mises
Liberty is a luxury of security; the free individual is a product and a mark of civilization. — Will Durant
The first western gardens were those in the Mediterranean basin. There in the desert areas stretching from North Africa to the valleys of the Euphrates,… — Penelope Hobhouse
It's very difficult to marry into another civilization. — Leslie Caron
Everything progresses in waves. The march of civilization, the progression of worlds, is in waves. All human activities likewise progress in waves - art, literature,… — Swami Vivekananda
Champagne is the wine of civilization and the oil of government. — Winston Churchill
Mark you, if you give up spirituality, leaving it aside to go after the materializing civilization of the West, the result will be that in… — Swami Vivekananda
Some people think it's naive to think we can make love our new bottom line. What I believe is naive is thinking human civilization as… — Marianne Williamson
Give me a Wildness whose glance no civilization can endure. — Henry David Thoreau
Our community of rebels, of humble truth seekers, wants to turn our culture around. We don't despise our country. We don't desire failure. We desire… — Joel Salatin
If education is beaten by training, civilization dies. — C.S. Lewis
Whenever we touch nature we get clean. People who have got dirty through too much civilization take a walk in the woods, or a bath… — Carl Jung
Artists are the radical voice of civilization. — Paul Robeson
Almighty God: Our sons, pride of our Nation, this day have set upon a mighty endeavor, a struggle to preserve our Republic, our religion, and… — Franklin D. Roosevelt
When I go biking, I am mentally far far away from civilization. The world is breaking someone else's heart. — Diane Ackerman

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