Civilization Quotes

2122 Civilization quotes by 1210 unique authors

The Battle of France is over. The Battle of Britain is about to begin. Upon this battle depends the future of Christian civilization. — Winston Churchill
The last struggle for our rights, the battle for our civilization, is entirely with ourselves. — William Wells Brown
Let us candidly admit that there are shameful blemishes on the American past, of which the worst by far is rum. Nevertheless, we have improved… — Bernard DeVoto
Fermentation and civilization are inseparable. — John Ciardi
Fermentation equals civilization. — John Ciardi
Good God, if our civilization were to sober up for a couple of days it'd die of remorse on the third. — Malcolm Lowry
Government should uphold-and not undermine-those institutions which are custodians of the very values upon which civilization is founded: religion, education and, above all, family. — Ronald Reagan
The highest test of the civilization of any race is in its willingness to extend a helping hand to the less fortunate. — Booker T. Washington
The technologies which have had the most profound effects on human life are usually simple. A good example of a simple technology with profound historical… — Freeman Dyson
It would be wryly interesting if in human history the cultivation of marijuana led generally to the invention of agriculture, and thereby to civilization. — Carl Sagan
From India to Spain, the brilliant civilization of Islam flourished. What was lost to christendom at this time was not lost to civilization, but quite… — Bertrand Russell
To us it seems that West-European civilization is civilization, but this is a narrow view. — Bertrand Russell
Security, the chief pretense of civilization, cannot exist where the worst of dangers, the danger of poverty, hangs over everyone's head. — George Bernard Shaw
In going to America one learns that poverty is not a necessary accompaniment to civilization. — Oscar Wilde
A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization. — Samuel Johnson
But the place which you have selected for your camp, though never so rough and grim, begins at once to have its attractions, and becomes… — Henry David Thoreau
New York is the place where all the aspirations of the western world meet to form one vast master aspiration, as powerful as the suction… — H. L. Mencken
The imagination is the secret and marrow of civilization. It is the very eye of faith. — Henry Ward Beecher
When I was young I used to read about the decline of Western civilization, and I decided it was something I would like to make… — George Carlin
Civilizations die from philosophical calm, irony, and a sense of fair play quite as surely as they die of debauchery. — Joseph Wood Krutch
What men call civilization is the condition of present customs; what they call barbarism, the condition of past ones. — Anatole France
Civilization survives on the constant discovery of amity and an equal supply of damnation. — Victor Hugo
The whole inspiration of our civilization springs from the teachings of Christ and the lessons of the prophets. To read the Bible for these fundamentals… — Herbert Hoover
Civilization is the lamb's skin in which barbarism masquerades. — Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Each little thing that we do passes into the great machine of life which may grind our virtues to powder and make them worthless, or… — Oscar Wilde

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