Quotes about civilization
civilization prosperity nations
There is nothing that sets a nation back as far in civilization as prosperity. Will Rogers
civilization taught-us use
Civilization has taught us to eat with a fork, but even now if nobody is around we use our fingers.
civilization culture pieces
Not a single piece of material culture - not a single object - has been found at Giza that can be interpreted to come from a lost civilization. Zahi Hawass
civilization black elements
Tutankhamun was not black, and the portrayal of ancient Egyptian civilization as black has no element of truth to it.
civilization years today
In China's thousands of years of civilization, the conflict between humankind and nature has never been as serious as it is today. Zhou Shengxian
civilization saint crumbs
Civilization must be destroyed. The hairy saints of the North have earned this crumb by their complaints. Wallace Stevens
civilization giving support
Is one of the fairest portions of the globe to remain in a state of nature, the haunt of a few wretched savages, when it seems destined by the Creator to give support to a large population and to be the seat of civilization? William Henry Harrison
civilization firsts culture
The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards Walter Bagehot
civilization barbarism documents
There is no document of civilization that is not at the same time a document of barbarism. Walter Benjamin
civilization magazines adequate
We do not see the danger clearly enough that we develop images adequate to our state of civilization. When you watch TV, you know instantly that there's something wrong with the images. When you open a magazine and see the ads, you know there's something wrong with the images. And it's unhealthy and not good and outright dangerous, in my opinion. Werner Herzog
civilization dinosaurs adequate
We live in a society that has no adequate images anymore, and if we do not find adequate images and an adequate language for our civilization with which to express them, we will die out like the dinosaurs.
civilization texting vehemence
There's a completely new culture out there. I'm not a participant of texting and driving - or texting at all - but I see there's something going on in civilization which is coming with great vehemence at us.
civilization healthy west
I was shaped by the west and have lived most of my life in it, and nothing would gratify me more than to see it in all its subregions and subcultures both prosperous and environmentally healthy, with a civilization to match its scenery. Wallace Stegner
civilization iron soul
This extraordinary metal, the soul of every manufacture, and the mainspring perhaps of civilised society. Of iron. Samuel Smiles
civilization giving envy
The yearning after equality [in economic outcome] is the offspring of envy and covetousness, and there is no possible plan for satisfying that yearning which can do aught else than rob A to give to B; consequently all such plans nourish some of the meanest vices of human nature, waste capital, and overthrow civilization. William Graham Sumner
civilization healthy foundation
No healthy civilization can ever be reared on a foundation of devitalized work. William Ralph Inge
civilization boredom revolution
The effect of boredom on a large scale in history is underestimated. It is a main cause of revolutions, and would soon bring to an end all the static Utopias and the farmyard civilization of the Fabians.
civilization disease
Civilization is a disease which is almost invariably fatal.
civilization waste products
Civilization is being poisoned by its own waste products.
civilization together uprooting
Civilisation is hooped together, brought Under a rule, under the semblance of peace By manifold illusion.... William Butler Yeats
civilization terrorism planets
Terrorism is a horrible thing that is the great threat to civilization on our planet. Walter Isaacson
civilization world growing
From the days of Weishaupt to those of Karl Marx... this world-wide conspiracy for the overthrow of civilization and for the reconstitution of society... has been steadily growing. Winston Churchill
civilization people rising
We should lay aside every hindrance and endeavour by uniting the whole force and spirit of our people to raise again a great British nation standing up before all the world; for such a nation, rising in its ancient vigour, can even at this hour save civilization.
civilization political democracy
Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization.
civilization patriotism weapons
Patriotism is an indispensable weapon in the defense of civilization against barbarism. William Kristol
civilization winner
Without winners, there wouldn't even be any civilization. Woody Hayes
civilization would-be winner
Without winners, there would be no civilization.
civilization survival matter
The sum of the whole matter is this - our civilization cannot survive materially unless it be redeemed spiritually. Woodrow Wilson
civilization hermits alienation
A hermit is simply a person to whom civilization has failed to adjust itself. Will Cuppy
civilization missing needs
Continue to express your dissent and your needs, but remember to remain civilized, for you will sorely miss civilization if it is sacrified in the turbulence of change. Will Durant
civilization missing turbulence
For you will sorely miss civilization if it is sacrificed in the turbulence of change.
civilization stoic born
A civilization is born Stoic and dies Epicurean.
civilization dust earth
Civilizations come and go; they conquer the earth and crumble into dust; but faith survives every desolation.