Civilization Where Quotes
- One of the great dreams of man must be to find some place between the extremes of nature and civilization where it is possible to… — Barry Lopez
- I take higher ground. I hold that in the present state of civilization, where two races of different origin, and distinguished by color, and other… — John C. Calhoun
- The first western gardens were those in the Mediterranean basin. There in the desert areas stretching from North Africa to the valleys of the Euphrates,… — Penelope Hobhouse
- O wise humanity, terribly wise humanity! How inscrutable is the civilization where men toil and work and worry their hair gray to get a living… — Lin Yutang
- There can be no high civilization where there is not ample leisure. — Henry Ward Beecher
- The priesthood in many ways is the ultimate closet in Western civilization, where gay people particularly have hidden for the past two thousand years. — John Shelby Spong
- Civilization has given us enormous successes: going to the moon, technology. But then this is the civilisation that took us to debt, environmental crisis, every… — Muhammad Yunus
- Any civilization where the main symbol of religious veneration is a tool of execution is a bad place to have children. — Charles Stross