Civilization Quote by Thomas Carlyle

“No new technology, during the thousand years between gunpowder and the steam engine, was as disruptive as the printing press, and Protestantism was its…

— Kurt Andersen

“While the hardware of civilization - iron pots, blankets, guns - was welcomed by Native people, the software of Protestantism and Catholicism - original…

— Thomas King

We have now in our possession three instruments of civilization, unknown to antiquity. These are the art of printing; free representative government; and, lastly,…

— Edward Everett

The effect of the discovery of printing was evident in the savage religious wars of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Application of power to…

— Harold Innis

What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind.

— Wendell Phillips

There have been three great inventions in the history of mankind; Fire, the wheel and Playboy.

— Hugh Hefner

This country was founded by religious nuts with guns.

— P. J. O'Rourke

Not much was really invented during the Renaissance, if you don't count modern civilization.

— P. J. O'Rourke

Firearms stand next in importance to the Constitution itself. They are the American people's liberty, teeth and keystone under independence. The church, the plow,…

— George Washington

“No new technology, during the thousand years between gunpowder and the steam engine, was as disruptive as the printing press,”

— Kurt Andersen

“Europe needed printing because it was bursting with creativity. New ideas in the arts and sciences, as well as in social justice and religion,…

— Mark Kurlansky

Not material or economic conditions in the ordinary sense, but perverse religious ideas explain the suspension of civilization in Europe from the 5th to…

— Joseph McCabe