Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Baudelaire

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.

Charlie Munger

The interesting thing is the field is so big - it's enormous. One thing a modern civilization needs is energy.

David Wallace

Civilization no longer needs to open up wilderness; it needs wilderness to help open up the still largely unexplored human mind.

David Brin

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 Brooks

If I had to fault President [Barack] Obama, I would say that sometimes governs like a visitor from a morally superior civilization.

August Bebel

Christianity is the enemy of liberty and civilization.

August Bebel

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.

Arnold J. Toynbee

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.

Antonio Tabucchi

The salt of any interesting civilization is mixture.

Jacques Barzun

If civilization has risen from the Stone Age, it can rise again from the Wastepaper Age.

Calvin Coolidge

Civilization and profit go hand in hand.

Bill Nye

If the Earth gets hit by an asteroid, it's game over. It's control-alt-delete for civilization.

Bertrand Russell

To us it seems that West-European civilization is civilization, but this is a narrow view.

Charles Marion Russell

A pioneer destroys things and calls it civilization.

Charles Grodin

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 Fourier

The method of doubt must be applied to civilization; we must doubt its necessity, its excellence, and its permanence.

Charles Fourier

Civilization is a social plague on the planet, and vices are just as necessary to it as is a virus to disease.

Bill Mauldin

Certainly none of the advances made in civilization has been due to counterrevolutionaries and advocates of the status quo.

Benjamin Hooks

The most enduring contributions made to civilization have not been made by brawn, they have been made by brain.

Bjarne Stroustrup

Our civilization depends critically on software, and we have a dangerously low degree of professionalism in the computer fields

Bill Gates

Really advanced civilization is based on advances in energy.

Charles Lindbergh

Aviation has struck a delicately balanced world, a world where stability was already giving way to the pressure of new dynamic forces, a world dominated by a mechanical, materialist, Western European civilization.

Charles Lindbergh

Our survival, the future of our civilization, possibly the existence of mankind, depends on American leadership

Charles Lindbergh

I have seen the science I worshiped, and the aircraft I loved, destroying the civilization I expected them to serve.

Calvin Coolidge

Whenever Nature's bounty is in danger of exhaustion, the chemist has sought for a substitute. The conquest of disease has made great progress as a result of your efforts. Wherever we look, the work of the chemist has raised the level of our civilization and has increased the productive capacity of the nation. Waste materials, formerly cast aside, are now being utilized.

Calvin Coolidge

Wherever we look, the work of the chemist has raised the level of our civilization and has increased the productive capacity of the nation.

Carroll Quigley

A civilization is complicated, in the first place, because it is dynamic; that is, it is constantly changing in the passage of time, until it has perished.

Carroll Quigley

It is clear that every civilization undergoes a process of historical change. We can see that a civilization comes into existence, passes through a long experience, and eventually goes out of existence.

Carroll Quigley

Western civilization presents one of the most difficult tasks for historical analysis, because it is not yet finished, because we are a part of it and lack perspective, and because it presents considerable variation from our pattern of historical change.

Carroll Quigley

The instrument of expansion of Classical civilization was a social organization, slavery.

Carroll Quigley

The process by which civilization, as an abstract entity distinct from the societies in which it is embodied, dies or is reborn is a very significant one.

Carroll Quigley

For the first time in its history, Western Civilization is in danger of being destroyed internally by a corrupt, criminal ruling cabal which is centered around the Rockefeller interests, which include elements from the Morgan, Brown, Rothschild, Du Pont, Harriman, Kuhn-Loeb, and other groupings as well. This junta took control of the political, financial, and cultural life of America in the first two decades of the twentieth century.

Al Gore

Unless we stop dumping 70 million tons of global warming pollution into the atmosphere every 24 hours, which we are doing right now ... the continued acceleration of this pollution would destroy the future of human civilization.