Civilization Quotes

2122 Civilization quotes by 1210 unique authors

This truth may be unfashionable, unpalatable, no doubt unpopular, but, if it is the truth, the story of mankind shows that war was universal and… — Winston Churchill
That is the key to history. Terrific energy is expended - civilizations are built up - excellent institutions devised; but each time something goes wrong.… — C.S. Lewis
No previous civilization has been able to achieve it, nor can we see even in the remote distance, that day of the Messiah, when national… — Leon Pinsker
But it is obvious that our fathers, whose efforts have planted these great and prosperous cities along the once lonely trails of our own broad… — James Henry Breasted
The silence of landscape conceals vast presence. Place is not simply location. A place is a profound individuality. With complete attention, landscape celebrates the liturgy… — John O'Donohue
The thrill of tramping alone and unafraid through a wilderness of lakes, creeks, alpine meadows, and glaciers is not known to many. A civilization can… — William O. Douglas
With the emergence of civilization, the rate of change shifted from hundreds of thousands of years to millennia. With the emergence of science as a… — William Irwin Thompson
Thousands of years and many civilizations have defined a marriage as the union between one man and one woman. With few exceptions, those civilizations that… — Randy Neugebauer
I believe that what we are fighting here is not just a small group of people who have hijacked a religion, but it is a… — Tom Tancredo
Thus, it was to seek true civilization and true justice for all the peoples of the world, and to view this as the destruction of… — Hideki Tojo
In this respect, the history of science, like the history of all civilization, has gone through cycles. — Abdus Salam
The dog that buried the bone which even a canine appetite could not manage, the squirrel that gathered nuts for a later feast, the bees… — Will Durant
It's an essential fight librarians are making, an age-old fight; yours is a battle for civilization. It's a fight for our country's founding values. — Jim Hightower
Coal lay in ledges under the ground since the Flood, until a laborer with pick and windlass brings it to the surface. We may well… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
History shows us that other highly developed forms of civilization have collapsed. Who knows whether the same fate does not await our own? — Christian Lous Lange
Each man has an equal social right to multiply his power of motion by all the social factors of civilization. Private property in any of… — Daniel De Leon
Gass once wrote: "Language serves not only to express thought but to make possible thoughts which could not exist without it." Here is the essence… — Dan Simmons
The Babylonian and Assyrian civilizations have perished; Hammurabi, Sargon and Nebuchadnezzar are empty names; yet Babylonian mathematics is still interesting, and the Babylonian scale of… — G. H. Hardy
In our civilization, there are permanent forms which are part of every epoch and every culture. They are not especially difficult to detect. A minimal… — Philippe Starck
The Jews had a love-hate relationship with the Greek culture. They craved its civilization but resented its dominance. Josephus says they regarded Greeks as feckless,… — Simon Sebag-Montefiore
Humankind is able to create new conditions, a new reality. We are not fated to swim forever among the realities that are here now. ...… — Pramoedya Ananta Toer
Practical application is found by not looking for it, and one can say that the whole progress of civilization rests on that principle. — Jacques Hadamard
IF we desire European civilization to be a raid and a rescue, we shall insist rather that souls are in real peril than that their… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Modern prophets say that our economics have failed us. No! It is not our economics which have failed; it is man who has failed-man who… — Fulton J. Sheen
Perhaps, some day, humanity can start afresh, a new world, a tabula rasa, a world with a mind without prior experiences. No memories and no… — Henry Martyn

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