Civilization Quotes

Civilization and profit go hand in hand.

Has it struck you that the music which is regarded as the most sublime in western civilization, which is the music of Bach, is called baroque?

It is commonly said and known that each civilization has its own religion. Now my claim is that if we look deeper, the different civilizations were brought into being by the different revelations.

What most people don't seem to realize is that there is just as much money to be made out of the wreckage of a civilization as from the upbuilding of one.

It's just a show. It's not the end of Western Civilization. It's chewing gum.

I think really, China, Chinese, I think they really have a long history of civilization, rich culture.

By 3000 B.C. the art of Egypt was so ripe and so far advanced that it is surprising to find any student of early culture proposing that the crude contemporary art of the early Babylonians is the product of a civilization earlier than that of the Nile.

Our civilization is now in the transition stage between the age of warring empires and a new age of world unity and peace.

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

Good God, if our civilization were to sober up for a couple of days it'd die of remorse on the third.

The moment you give up your principles, and your values, you are dead, your culture is dead, your civilization is dead. Period.

The greatest advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science and literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government.

Triumphant science and technology are only at the threshold of man's command over sources of energy so stupendous that, if used for military purposes, they can wipe out our entire civilization.

Civilization is built on a number of ultimate principles... respect for human life, the punishment of crimes against property and persons, the equality of all good citizens before the law... or, in a word justice.

Internationalism is a community theory of society which is founded on economic, spiritual, and biological facts. It maintains that respect for a healthy development of human society and of world civilization requires that mankind be organized internationally.

The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards.

The disease of mutual distrust among nations is the bane of modern civilization.

A civilization is a heritage of beliefs, customs, and knowledge slowly accumulated in the course of centuries, elements difficult at times to justify by logic, but justifying themselves as paths when they lead somewhere, since they open up for man his inner distance.

What it values most of all is the sum total of events and the advance of civilization, which carries individuals along with it; but, indifferent to details, it cares less to have them real than noble or, rather, grand and complete.

I do not believe that the values which the Western democracies consider essential to civilization can survive in a world rent by the international anarchy of nationalism and the economic anarchy of competitive enterprise.

Terrorism is a horrible thing that is the great threat to civilization on our planet.

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

The true law of the race is progress and development. Whenever civilization pauses in the march of conquest, it is overthrown by the barbarian.

If we cannot by reason, by influence, by example, by strenuous effort, and by personal sacrifice, mend the bad places of civilization, we certainly cannot do it by force.

I believe with all my heart that civilization has produced nothing finer than a man or woman who thinks and practices true tolerance.

Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.

George Bush doesn't represent any civilization!

This is the reality of nuclear weapons: they may trigger a world war; a war which, unlike previous ones, destroys all of civilization.

Roman civilization had achieved, within the bounds of its technology, relatively as great a mastery of time and space as we have achieved today.

We must plant the sea and herd its animals using the sea as farmers instead of hunters. That is what civilization is all about - farming replacing hunting.