Quotes about civilization
civilization luxury selfishness
A semi-civilized state of society, equally removed from the extremes of barbarity and of refinement, seems to be that particular meridian under which all the reciprocities and gratuities of hospitality do most readily flourish and abound. For it so happens that the ease, the luxury, and the abundance of the highest state of civilization, are as productive of selfishness, as the difficulties, the privations, and the sterilities of he lowest. Charles Caleb Colton
civilization saws ends
I saw someone peeing in Jermym Street the other day. I thought, is this the end of civilization as we know it? Or is it simply someone peeing in Jermyn Street? Alan Bennett
civilization solitude going-out
Modern civilization is so complex as to make the devotional life all but impossible. It wears us out by multiplying distractions and beats us down by destroying our solitude, where otherwise we might drink and renew our strength before going out to face the world again. Aiden Wilson Tozer
civilization doubt moral
I have no doubt that historians will conclude that we of the twentieth century had intelligence enough to create a great civilization but not the moral wisdom to preserve it.
civilization mind needs
Civilization no longer needs to open up wilderness; it needs wilderness to help open up the still largely unexplored human mind. David Wallace
civilization giving innovation
Every marvel of our age arose out of the critical give and take of an open society. No other civilization ever managed to incorporate this crucial innovation, weaving it into daily life. And if you disagree with this... say so! David Brin
civilization president faults
If I had to fault President [Barack] Obama, I would say that sometimes governs like a visitor from a morally superior civilization. David Brooks
civilization enemy liberty
Christianity is the enemy of liberty and civilization. August Bebel
civilization people enemy
Christianity is the enemy of liberty and civilization. It has kept mankind in slavery and oppression. The Church and the State have always fraternally united to exploit the people.
civilization umpires two
Of the twenty-two civilizations that have appeared in history, nineteen of them collapsed when they reached the moral state the United States is in now. Arnold J. Toynbee
civilization interesting salt
The salt of any interesting civilization is mixture. Antonio Tabucchi
civilization age stones
If civilization has risen from the Stone Age, it can rise again from the Wastepaper Age. Jacques Barzun
civilization games asteroids
If the Earth gets hit by an asteroid, it's game over. It's control-alt-delete for civilization. Bill Nye
civilization views islam
To us it seems that West-European civilization is civilization, but this is a narrow view. Bertrand Russell
civilization people way
People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization. Agnes Repplier
civilization tea england
English civilization rests largely upon tea and cricket, with mighty spurts of enjoyment on Derby Day, and at Newmarket.
civilization numbers individuality
You know, our sense of individuality is just the number one target of civilization. Alan Rudolph
civilization roots leisure
At the root of our civilization, there is the freedom of each person of thought, of belief, of opinion, of work, of leisure. Charles de Gaulle
civilization differences people
I trust the time is nigh when, with the universal assent of civilized people, all international differences shall be determined without resort to arms by the benignant processes of civilization. Chester A. Arthur
civilization chinese heritage
I should like to say that I am as proud of my Chinese heritage and background as I am devoted to modern science, a part of human civilization of Western origin, to which I have dedicated and I shall continue to dedicate my work. Chen Ning Yang
civilization treats disabled
How a society treats its disabled is the true measure of a civilization. Chen Guangcheng
civilization agony abhorrent
The time is approaching when we shall consider it abhorrent to our civilization to allow a human being to die in prolonged agony which we should mercifully end in any other creature. Charlotte Perkins Gilman
civilization tables sin
Theory of the true civilization. It is not to be found in gas or steam or table turning. It consists in the diminution of the traces of original sin. Charles Baudelaire
civilization interesting needs
The interesting thing is the field is so big - it's enormous. One thing a modern civilization needs is energy. Charlie Munger
civilization pioneers
A pioneer destroys things and calls it civilization. Charles Marion Russell
civilization government people
I don't want to have anything to do with the government. And yet if we don't have any regulations, there goes civilization, there goes security, and there goes protecting you against what people are going to sell you. Charles Grodin
civilization excellence doubt
The method of doubt must be applied to civilization; we must doubt its necessity, its excellence, and its permanence. Charles Fourier
civilization disease vices
Civilization is a social plague on the planet, and vices are just as necessary to it as is a virus to disease.
civilization made status-quo
Certainly none of the advances made in civilization has been due to counterrevolutionaries and advocates of the status quo. Bill Mauldin
civilization brain made
The most enduring contributions made to civilization have not been made by brawn, they have been made by brain. Benjamin Hooks
civilization age generations
Generations do not age. Every youth of any period, any civilization, has the same possibilities as always. Cesare Pavese
civilization savages fragility
They do not understand the fragility of civilization and the constant nearness of savage nature. Camille Paglia
civilization hands progress
Civilization and profit go hand in hand. Calvin Coolidge