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Civilization Quotes
"Americans' great and secret fear is that America may turn out to be a phenomenon rather than a civilization."
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"Christianity is the enemy of liberty and civilization."
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"Never had there been such an attempt to make conquest the servant of civilization. About keeping India there is no question. England has a real duty there."
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"Civilization is a product of the cerebral cortex."
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"Surely the only sound foundation for a civilization is a sound state of mind."
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"Thus lynch law held sway in the far West until civilization spread into the Territories and the orderly processes of law took its place. The emergency no longer existing, lynching gradually disappeared from the West."
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"Old people have wisdom but not energy; young people have energy but not wisdom; energy and wisdom must be in the same body to create a much better civilisation! To do this, we will either give energy to the old or we will give wisdom to the young and for now the latter seems a more plausible action!"
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"A civilization is built upon the edifice of genuine human minds, not the primitive and deluded minds of barbarian apes, who in most cases read one book of opinions written hundreds or thousands of years ago and think that they have factual answers to all the questions in the world."
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"Of course there is no veneer, the process is one of growth, and primitiveness and civilization are degrees of the same thing. If civilization has an opposite, it is war."
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"The evidence of a Jewish civilization going back more than two millennia is overwhelmingly borne out in the archaeology of the region. The heritage of the Jews in Palestine is documented."
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"The majority of India's adult and elderly population is too medieval to think as civilized, rational and progressive human beings."
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"Jesus wept; Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived the grace of present civilization."
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"People in this civilization are starving in the middle of plenty. This is a civilization that is going down, not because it hasn't got the knowledge that would save it, but because nobody will use the knowledge."
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"It is what you do from now on that will either move our civilization forward a few tiny steps, or else... begin to march us steadily backward."
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"The European talks of progress because by the aid of a few scientific discoveries he has established a society which has mistaken comfort for civilisation."
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"No civilization can thrive or survive if it refuses to adapt or change."
"For me, politeness is a sine qua non of civilization."
"There was no doubt about it: the City was the culmination of man's mastery over the environment. Not space travel, not the fifty colonized worlds that were now so haughtily independent, but the City."
"A civilized society is formed when every individual in that society are bound to obey the rules and regulation which is for the benefit of their own society."
"In the world of primitive savages, religion and bigotry go hand in hand. But, in the world of civilized humans, religion and reason must go hand in hand."
"Good breeding differs, if at all, from high breeding only as it gracefully remembers the rights of others, rather than gracefully insists on its own rights."
"The human civilization has gone extremely so far; that in return, we have lost the line between stupidity and spirituality."
"Jesus wept Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived the grace of present civilization."
"The only gain of civilisation for mankind is the greater capacity for variety of sensations - and absolutely nothing more."
"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."
"Adoration is a sign of an infant civilization."
"Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization."
"Civilization could not exist without tremors of desire and without the counteracting, negation force of disciplined denial. Nor would the gyratory pulsations of a lively civilization exist devoid of the convulsive chemistry of union and repellency. We are born with a desire to be immortal. Cursed with the knowledge that we must die, people live their orthodox lives out by displaying reckless abandon as to the outcome of human life or nervously hounded by utter despondency nipping their heels. How we resolve this decidedly human complex of carrying out our daily lives while burden by our inescapable mortality determines our essential character. The collation of similar values adopted by our community determines who we are as a people."
"Civilization, we shall find, like Universalism and Christianity, is anti evolutionary in its effects; it works against the laws and conditions which regulated the earlier stages of man's ascent."
"This grimy fragment of another world, the forerunner of change, of conquest, of trade, of massacres, of blessings....the merry dance of death and trade goes on."
"Knowledge is the key driver of the progress of civilization."
"Our civilization is still in a middle stage, scarcely beast, in that it is no longer wholly guided by instinct; scarcely human, in that it is not yet wholly guided by reason."
"What do I think of Western civilization? I think it would be a very good idea."
"A civilization must be judged by its standards not by its expenditure."
"In this century, we are about to enter interplanetary civilization.In order to survive, we need to go beyond neoclassical economics definition.We define it as interplanomics."
"Handwriting enables civilization."
"To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization."
"Mankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell."
"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."
"Flushed with his impassioned gibberish, he saw himself standing alone on the last barrier of civilization."
"There is nothing more savage than modern civilization."
"Science is a trigger of changes of civilization. Religion is the failsafe of science performance."
"If this is called civilization, then I am afraid humanity is no more civilized than the Tyrannosaurus Rex."
"Education is not the amount of information that is pushed into the brain and causes havoc there, undigested all through a lifetime. Education must be a symposium of life-building, character- making and assimilation of ideas in the pursuit of building a more harmonious, peaceful and truly civilized world."
"Tolerance is held to be a condition of mind which is encouraged by, and is necessary for, civilization."
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