Civilization Quotes

2122 Civilization quotes by 1210 unique authors

Every civilization is, among other things, an arrangement for domesticating the passions and setting them to do useful work. — Aldous Huxley
Civilization owes to the Islamic world some of its most important tools and achievements...the Muslim genius has added much to the culture of all peoples. — Dwight D. Eisenhower
We would be a lot safer if the Government would take its money out of science and put it into astrology and the reading of… — Kurt Vonnegut
Islam brings hope and comfort to millions of people in my country, and to more than a billion people worldwide. Ramadan is also an occasion… — George W. Bush
When it comes to the common rights and needs of men and women, there is no clash of civilizations. The requirements of freedom apply fully… — George W. Bush
The teachings of many faiths share much in common. And people of many faiths are united in our commitments to love our families, to protect… — George W. Bush
Will not perhaps the temporal power of Islam return and with it the menace of an armed Mohammedan world, which will shake off the domination… — Hilaire Belloc
The most enduring contributions made to civilization have not been made by brawn, they have been made by brain. — Benjamin Hooks
The English think soap is civilization. — Heinrich von Treitschke
Angels appear to transcend all cultures, races, and systems. They are a part of human history and civilization, sometimes at the forefront, other times in… — Silver RavenWolf
You may fly over a land forever; you may bomb it, atomize it, and wipe it clean of life - but if you desire to… — T. R. Fehrenbach
We Christians must simplify our lives or lose untold treasures on earth and in eternity. Modern civilization is so complex as to make the devotional… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
Cities have always been the fireplaces of civilization, whence light and heat radiated out into the dark. — Theodore Parker
The richest person in the world - in fact. All the riches in the world - couldn't provide you with anything like the endless, incredible… — Malcolm Forbes
Access to knowledge is the superb, the supreme act of truly great civilizations. Of all the institutions that purport to do this, free libraries stand… — Toni Morrison
The man ignorant of mathematics will be increasingly limited in his grasp of the main forces of civilization. — John G. Kemeny
Geology is part of that remarkable dynamic process of the human mind which is generally called science and to which man is driven by an… — Reinout Willem van Bemmelen
We must ask whether our machine technology makes us proof against all those destructive forces which plagued Roman society and ultimately wrecked Roman civilization. Our… — Robert Strausz-Hupe
The planetary phase of history has begun, but the future shape of global society remains profoundly uncertain. Though perhaps improbable, a shift toward a planetary… — Unknown Author
There are few substance to which it yields interest, when it is considered how very intimately the knowledge and properties and uses of iron is… — Unknown Author
I think it is a sad reflection on our civilization that while we can and do measure the temperature in the atmosphere of Venus we… — Nicholas Kurti
The story of civilization is, in a sense, the story of engineering-that long and arduous struggle to make the forces of nature work for man's… — L. Sprague de Camp
And this is the ultimate lesson that our knowledge of the mode of transmission of typhus has taught us: Man carries on his skin a… — Charles Nicolle
Were I asked to define it, I should reply that archeology is that science which enables us to register and classify our knowledge of the… — Amelia B. Edwards
Why do they [Americans] quarrel, why do they hate Negroes, Indians, even Germans, why do they not have science and poetry commensurate with themselves, why… — Dmitri Mendeleev

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