Civilization Quotes

Uninhibited, they wallowed with zest in the filth and mire of their political conceptions and needs,...

[L]uxury always comes at someone else’s expense. One of the many advantages of civilization is that ...

Wherever we look, the work of the chemist has raised the level of our civilization and has increased...

We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and techno...

Civilization is a product of the cerebral cortex.

Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors. The library connects us ...

The Civilized… murder their children by producing too many of them without being able to provide for...

Real freedom lies in wildness, not in civilization.

I have seen the science I worshiped, and the aircraft I loved, destroying the civilization I expecte...

Any civilization where the main symbol of religious veneration is a tool of execution is a bad place...

Only as we live, think, feel, and work outside the home, do we become humanly developed, civilized, ...

The refusal to examine Islamic culture and traditions, the sordid dehumanization of Muslims, and the...

The barbarians never take a city until someone holds the gates open to them. And it's your own multi...

But the bars that held you, the bars that kept you in were the luxury and soft living. It is hard to...

It was an old hunter in camp and the hunter shared tobacco with him and told him of the buffalo and ...

She said: Sheriff how come you to let crime get so out of hand in your county? Sounded like a fair q...

I think in our desire to create a better America,we have to have civilized debate in this country an...

Horror is the law of the world of living creatures, and civilization is concerned with masking that ...

A heart pulsating in harmony with the circulation of sap and the flow of rivers? A body with the rhy...

Thus identified with astronomy, in proclaiming truths supposed to be hostile to Scripture, Geology h...

I have always unswervingly held, that God, in our civilizing world, manifests Himself not in the mir...

Been thinking of my grandfather, whose wayward brilliance skipped my father’s generation. Once, he s...

...that human hunger birthed the Civ'lize, but human hunger killed it too.

Old Rekohu’s claim to singularity, however, lay in its unique pacific creed. Since time immemorial, ...

Yes, it's vital to make lifestyle choices to mitigate damage caused by being a member of industriali...

One of the problems with all of this is that not all narratives are equal. Imagine, to take a silly ...

The global industrial economy is the engine for massive environmental degradation and massive human ...

...a woman smart and persistent enough that even a PhD in psychology hasn't clouded her insight into...

We cannot hope to create a sustainable culture with any but sustainable souls.

Why do they [Americans] quarrel, why do they hate Negroes, Indians, even Germans, why do they not ha...

it wont be long now it wont be longman is making deserts of the earthit wont be long nowbefore man w...

[N]othing about a book is so unmistakable and so irreplaceable as the stamp of the cultured mind. I ...

It seemed to me,' said Wonko the Sane, 'that any civilization that had so far lost its head as to ne...

London was but a foretaste of this nomadic civilization which is altering human nature so profoundly...

Few travelled in these days, for, thanks to the advance of science, the earth was exactly alike all ...

But, for myself, the Earth’s records had taught me to look for widest ruin as the price of highest c...

You didn't find any trace of her?" asked d'Arnot. // Tarzan shook his head. "None. In the jungle, I ...

In 1492, the natives discovered they were indians, discovered they lived in America, discovered they...

To make the distinction unmistakably clear: Civilization is the vital force in human history; cultur...

Human history, like all great movements, was cyclical, and returned to the point of beginning. The i...

Every single empire in its official discourse has said that it is not like all the others, that its ...

Respectability is the dickey on the bosom of civilization.

The path of civilization is paved with tin cans.

We must choose between the violence of adults and the smiles of children, between the ugliness of ha...

In order for us to have a future that's exciting and inspiring, it has to be one where we're a space...

‎Civilization has been a continuous struggle of the individual or of groups of individuals against t...

We are born princes and the civilizing process makes us frogs.

When humor goes, there goes civilization.

It (modernization) is just another jungle closing in.

Flushed with his impassioned gibberish, he saw himself standing alone on the last barrier of civiliz...

Civilization is in fact the longest story of all. Civilization can persist through a series of econo...

The technologies which have had the most profound effects on human life are usually simple. A good e...

It is not the sanctuary that is in danger; it is civilization. It is not infallibility that may go d...

The strength of a civilization is not measured by its ability to fight wars, but rather by its abili...

It seems to me that you can almost define civilization by saying it's people who are not willing to ...

Fighting is found everywhere in the animal kingdom and nowhere so much as among human animals. Anima...

We sleep soundly in our beds, because rough men stand ready in the night to do violence on those who...

The old civilizations claimed that they were founded on love or justice. Ours is founded upon hatred...

Tea is one of the main stays of civilization in this country.

Since barbarism has its pleasures it naturally has its apologists.

The test of civilization is its estimate of women.

Modern man has successfully razed the imaginative landscapes of primal peoples the whole world over....

Civilization was a defense against nature’s raw power.

The human mind is a lucky little local, passing accident which was totally unforeseen, and condemned...

Civilization is a race between disaster and education.

You've made a beast of yourself,- to the beasts you may go.

Since ideology, particularly in it's shallower versions, is peculiarly destructive of the capacity t...

He says that there can be no high civilization without enslavement of the masses, either nominal or ...

If a test of civilization be sought, none can be so sure as the condition of that half of society ov...

The people who build high, strong fences are the ones who survive the best. You deny that reality on...

Thus the great civilizer sends out its emissaries, sooner or later, to every sandy cape and light-ho...

If it is asserted that civilization is a real advance in the condition of man — and I think that it ...

I have no doubt that it is a part of the destiny of the human race, in its gradual improvement, to l...

‎I love even to see the domestic animals reassert their native rights — any evidence that they have ...

It's funny how people think that they have "a right to life". Now isn't that the biggest load you ev...

One civilization after another has been wrecked upon the attempt to secure sufficient leadership fro...

The fiendlike skill we display in the invention of all manner of death-dealing engines, the vindicti...

We sit by and watch the barbarian. We tolerate him in the long stretches of peace we are not afraid...

The Barbarian hopes — and that is the mark of him, that he can have his cake and eat it too.He will ...

Have you ever plunged into the immensity of space and time by reading the geological treatises of Cu...

Where the human need for order meetsthe human tendency to mayhem, where civilization runs smack agai...

Our lifetime may be the last that will be lived out in a technological society.

Every human generation has its own illusions with regard to civilization; some believe they are taki...

In my own opinion, the average American's cultural shortcomings can be likened to those of the educa...

What is peace? Balance three iron skewers tip to tip, one upon the other; at the summit, emplace an ...

...the/ supreme end-result of/ early Gothic phallic forms/ is the skyscraper & the/ oil drill & powe...

Japhy was considered an eccentric around the campus, which is the usual thing for campuses and colle...

The fleeting systems lapse like foam,'" he mumbled what was evidently a quotation. "That's it—foam, ...

We are all afraid - for our confidence for the future for the world. That is the nature of the hum...

If civilization has risen from the Stone Age, it can rise again from the Wastepaper Age.

Public libraries have been a mainstay of my life. They represent an individual's right to acquire kn...

It oughtn't to need a war to make us talk to each other in buses, and invent our own amusements in t...

In much of the rest of the world, rich people live in gated communities and drink bottled water. Tha...

Not until the beginning of the 20th century did Europe's urban populations finally become self-susta...

Twelve thousand years ago, everybody on earth was a hunter-gatherer; now almost all of us are farmer...

Thanks to this availability of suitable wild mammals and plants, early peoples of the Fertile Cresce...

Civilization is a hopeless race to discover remedies for the evils it produces.

The first man, who, after enclosing a piece of ground, took it into his head to say, "This is mine,"...

I know that [civilized men] do nothing but boast incessantly of the peace and repose they enjoy in t...

There is always a city. There is always a civilisation. There is always a barbarian with a pickaxe. ...