Civilization Quotes

To one who believes that really good industrial conditions are the hope for a machine civilization, nothing is more heartening than to watch conference methods and education replacing police methods.

The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization.

America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization.

Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them.

If the views I have expressed be right, we can think of our civilization evolving with the growth of knowledge from small wandering tribes to large settled law.

Civilization in its present form hasn't got long.

The writer in western civilization has become not a voice of his tribe, but of his individuality. This is a very narrow-minded situation.

Without adventure civilization is in full decay.

The statistics of life out there and the statistics of intelligent beings and advanced civilization is a certainty, the way I look at it. that It has not been accepted, because we've been in an anthropocentric era.

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 single crisis. We need a civilization where we say goodbye to these things.

I am especially grateful, however, to have known the fifties, before we began to poison our own civilization - or at least before the effects of the poison began to be felt.

The test of civilization is its estimate of women.

Feminists are in an untenable position, defending something they no longer believe in, and which history will force them to recognize was destructive of most of the central pillars of civilization. I'm just the first one to point it out publicly.

If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.

Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty ones.

I have to bring to your notice a terrifying reality: with the development of nuclear weapons Man has acquired, for the first time in history, the technical means to destroy the whole of civilization in a single act.

There are historic situations in which refusal to defend the inheritance of a civilization, however imperfect, against tyranny and aggression may result in consequences even worse than war.

If the battle for civilization comes down to the wimps versus the barbarians, the barbarians are going to win.

The world had already changed before September 11. The world has been going through a process of change over the last 20 or 30 years. A civilization ends, another one begins.

Cities have always been the fireplaces of civilization, whence light and heat radiated out into the dark.

I think God's going to come down and pull civilization over for speeding.

A knowledge of the forces that rule society, of the causes that have produced its upheavals, and of society's resources for promoting healthy progress has become of vital concern to our civilization.

Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years.

What is the thread of western civilization that distinguished its course in history? It has to do with the preoccupation of western man with his outward command and his sense of superiority.

You know, our sense of individuality is just the number one target of civilization.

If civilization had been left in female hands we would still be living in grass huts.

The world generally speaking is now drifting on a more and more devastating course towards the absurd target of extermination - or rather, to be more exact - of the northern hemisphere's towns, fields, and the people who have developed our civilization.

In essence the Renaissance was simply the green end of one of civilization's hardest winters.

We released 400,000 classified documents, the most extraordinary history of a war to ever have been released in our civilization. Those documents cover 109,000 deaths. That is serious matter.

We know we need civilization and laws and procedures, but isn't it frustrating? Wouldn't it be great if we could just do what we needed to do?