Civilization Quotes

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.

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.

A civilization which leaves so large a number of its participants unsatisfied and drives them into revolt neither has nor deserves the prospect of a lasting existence.

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

Christianity is the enemy of liberty and civilization.

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.

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.

If any civilization is to survive, it is the morality of altruism that men have to reject.

It is just because civilization is ever evolving, changing, and becoming more complicated, that experts find it so difficult to define it in explicit terms.

Equal and united people can above all become a part of the civilization toward which mankind is moving. If we cannot be at the head of the column leading to such a civilization, there is certainly no need for us to be at is tail.

Well, I think, you know, the arts are really what - one of the things that make this country strong. We always think it's our economy or our military power, but in fact, I think it's our culture, our civilization, our ideas, our creativity.

I consider that there are different degrees of civilization and there are many different ways of expressing it. But one is civilized or is not.

Each new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little barbarians, who must be civilized before it is too late.