Civilization Quotes

Christianity is the enemy of liberty and civilization.

As I have said for many years throughout this land, we're borrowing money from China to buy oil from the Persian Gulf to burn it in ways that destroy the future of human civilization. Every bit of that has to change.

Each man has an equal social right to multiply his power of motion by all the social factors of civilization. Private property in any of these factors is inconsistent with this fundamental right; it must, obviously, prove a source of economic despotism and industrial slavery.

A German immersed in any civilization different from his own loses a weight equivalent in volume to the amount of intelligence he displaces.

It is not necessary to argue to those for whom I write that the two great needs of mankind, that all men may be lifted up into the light of the highest Christian civilization, are, first, a pure, spiritual Christianity, and second, civil liberty.

Thus lynch law held sway in the far West until civilization spread into the Territories and the orderly processes of law took its place. The emergency no longer existing, lynching gradually disappeared from the West.

Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos.

To make the moral achievement implicit in science a source of strength to civilization, the scientist will have to have the cooperation also of the philosopher and the religious teacher.

Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime.

I would seriously question whether anybody is really foolish enough to really say what they mean. Sometimes I think that civilization as we know it would kind of break down if we all were completely honest.

If there hadn't been women we'd still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends.

In our rich consumers' civilization we spin cocoons around ourselves and get possessed by our possessions.

The papacy again, representing the traditional unity of European civilization, has also shown itself unable to limit effectively the push of nationalism.

The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.

Barbarism is needed every four or five hundred years to bring the world back to life. Otherwise it would die of civilization.

Civilization had too many rules for me, so I did my best to rewrite them.

If mankind were to continue in other than the present barbarism, a new path must be found, a new civilization based on some other method than technology.

Every great movement in the history of Western civilization from the Carolingian age to the nineteenth century has been an international movement which owed its existence and its development to the cooperation of many different peoples.

For me, politeness is a sine qua non of civilization.

I've been thinking about the distorted view of science that prevails in our culture. I've been wondering about this, because our civilization is completely dependent on science and high technology, yet most of us are alienated from science.

Iraq is no diversion. It is a place where civilization is taking a decisive stand against chaos and terror, we must not waver.

Civilization is a conspiracy. Modern life is the silent compact of comfortable folk to keep up pretences.

It is only through books that we partake of the great harvest that is human civilization across the ages.

Today, human civilization is drowning in a sea of lies.

There is precious little in civilization to appeal to a Yeti.

Iran is a country of 80 million people, educated and dynamic. It sits astride a crucial part of the world. It cannot be sanctioned and pressed down forever. It is the last great civilization to sit outside the global order.

And we owe science to the combined energies of individual men of genius, rather than to any tendency to progress inherent in civilization.

Everybody thinks that this civilization has lasted a very long time but it really does take very few grandfathers' granddaughters to take us back to the dark ages.

A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan.

So long as the system of competition in the production and exchange of the means of life goes on, the degradation of the arts will go on; and if that system is to last for ever, then art is doomed, and will surely die; that is to say, civilization will die.