Civilization Quotes

2122 Civilization quotes by 1210 unique authors

What a splendid perspective contact with a profoundly different civilization might provide! In a cosmic setting vast and old beyond ordinary human understanding we are… — Carl Sagan
The South creates the civilizations, the North conquers them, ruins them, borrows from them, spreads them: this is one summary of history. — Will Durant
It's more eerie to be alone in a city that's lit up and functioning than one that's a tomb. If everything were silent, one could… — Isaac Marion
I say that almost everywhere there is beauty enough to fill a person's life if one would only be sensitive to it. but Henry says… — Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth
Science is the most reliable guide for civilization, for life, for success in the world. Searching a guide other than the science is meaning carelessness,… — Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
You used the word "civilization", which means a set of abstractions, symbols, conventions. Experience tends to be vicarious; emotions are predigested and electrical; ideas become… — Jack Vance
Muscles without strength, friendship without trust, opinion without risk, change without aesthetics, age without values, food without nourishment, power without fairness, facts without rigor, degrees… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Pride in one's own race - and that does not imply contempt for other races - is also a normal and healthy sentiment. I have… — Adolf Hitler
In the emerging, highly programmed landscape ahead, you will either create the software or you will be the software. It's really that simple: Program, or… — Douglas Rushkoff
Civilization is social order promoting cultural creation. Four elements constitute it: economic provision, political organization, moral tradition, and the pursuit of knowledge and the arts.… — Will Durant
It must be admitted that there is a degree of instability which is inconsistent with civilization. But, on the whole, the great ages have been… — Alfred North Whitehead
If the humanism that makes civilization civilized is to be preserved into the new century, it will need advocates. These advocates will need a memory,… — Clive James
Artists are the gate keepers of truth. We are civilization’s radical voice. — Paul Robeson
It is difficult to generalize about Islam. To begin with, the word itself is commonly used with two related but distinct meanings, as the equivalents… — Bernard Lewis
It is only through books that we partake of the great harvest that is human civilization across the ages. — Ibrahim Babangida
A new civilization was not to be improvised by a single mind. — John Lothrop Motley
What interests me is to paint the kind of antisensitivity that impregnates modern civilization. I think art since Cezanne has become extremely romantic and unrealistic,… — Roy Lichtenstein
The basic problem is that our civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man. — Andre Malraux
The only method compatible with our notions of civilization and the race is to prevent the breeding of the unfit by sterilization and the deliberate… — Nikola Tesla
Christianity doesn't come into it. George Bush and Tony Blair are not Christians. Religious people believe in the prophets, peace be upon them. Bush believes… — George Galloway
Human life is an extension of the principles of nature, and human civilization is a venture extrapolated out of human natures: man and his natural… — Kenny Smith
So successful has the ideological-political-cultural purge been executed that it is hard indeed to find vigorous liberals, and no energetic, coherent and cogent leftists at… — Kenny Smith
Induction makes you feel guilty for getting something out of nothing, and it is artificial, but it is one of the greatest ideas of civilization. — Herbert Wilf
Yet birth, and lust, and illness, and death are changeless things, and when one of these harsh facts springs out upon a man at some… — Arthur Conan Doyle
Fear of change is a part of the state of fear man has ever lived in but out of which he has begun to escape.… — Elsie Clews Parsons

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