Civilization Quotes

2122 Civilization quotes by 1210 unique authors

This extraordinary metal, the soul of every manufacture, and the mainspring perhaps of civilised society. Of iron. — Samuel Smiles
Those who admire modern civilization usually identify it with the steam engine and the electric telegraph. — George Bernard Shaw
Today every city, town, or village is affected by it. We have entered the Neon Civilization and become a plastic world.. It goes deeper than… — Raymond Loewy
We live in a glass-soaked civilization, but as for the bird in the Chinese proverb who finds it so difficult to discover air, the substance… — Unknown Author
Without undervaluing any other human agency, it may be safely affirmed that the Common School, improved and energized, as it can easily be, may become… — Horace Mann
In a world flagrant with the failures of civilization, what is there particularly immortal about our own? — Gilbert K. Chesterton
I'm opposed to a lot of the time that we as a civilization have come to spend looking at screens. For my money, life is… — Nick Offerman
Civilization as we know it will come to an end sometime in this century unless we can find a way to live without fossil fuels. — David Goodstein
Our insatiable drive to rummage deep beneath the surface of the earth is a willful expansion of our dysfunctional civilization into Nature. — Al Gore
We the human species, are confronting a planetary emergency-a threat to the survival of our civilization that is gathering ominous and destructive potential...the earth has… — Al Gore
Burning all the fossil fuels will destroy the planet we know, Creation, the planet of stable climate in which civilization developed. — James Hansen
Totalitarianism extends to whatever touches it...psychological technique, as it operates in the army or in a great industrial plant, entails a direct action on the… — Jacques Ellul
The qualities which technique requires for its advance are precisely those characteristics of a technical order which do not represent indivisual intelligence...The individual, in order… — Jacques Ellul
Present-Day Wickedness, Apostasy and Modern Civilization Cannot Prevent Revival. — John R. Rice
Without winners, there wouldn't even be any civilization. — Woody Hayes
Our civilization depends largely on paper. — Pliny the Elder
Every civilization depends upon the quality of the individuals it produces. — Frank Herbert
Civilization, like an airplane in flight, survives only as it keeps going forward. — Edward Abbey
Civilization rests on a set of promises; if the promises are broken too often, the civilization dies, no matter how rich it may be, or… — Herbert
Civilization must be destroyed. The hairy saints of the North have earned this crumb by their complaints. — Wallace Stevens
Civilization is the way one's own people live. Savagery is the way foreigners live. — Octavia Butler
Civilization is sterilization. — Aldous Huxley
Civilization is a process in the service of Eros, whose purpose is to combine single human individuals, and after that families, then races, peoples and… — Sigmund Freud
Civilization depends on morality. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Civilization is that mode of conduct which points out to man the path of duty. Performance of duty and observance of morality are convertible terms.… — Mahatma Gandhi

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