Civilization Quotes

We say that slavery has vanished from European civilization, but this is not true. Slavery still exists, but now it applies only to women and its name is prostitution.

A civilization that denies death ends by denying life.

Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor.

It is not possible for civilization to flow backwards while there is youth in the world. Youth may be headstrong, but it will advance it allotted length.

Put your shoulder to the wheel.

Forests precede civilizations and deserts follow them.

The disease of mutual distrust among nations is the bane of modern civilization

Courtesy is a silver lining around the dark clouds of civilization; it is the best part of refinement and in many ways, an art of heroic beauty in the vast gallery of man's cruelty and baseness.

The test of a civilization is in the way that it cares for its helpless members

If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.

Black men of Carthage, Ethiopia, of Timbuktu and Alexandria gave the likes of civilization to this world

From the first day to this, sheer greed was the driving spirit of civilization.

I think God's going to come down and pull civilization over for speeding.

Civilization - a heap of rubble scavenged by scrawny English Lit. vultures.

A civilization is not destroyed by wicked people; it is not necessary that people be wicked but only that they be spineless.

Artists are the gate keepers of truth. We are civilization’s radical voice.

Long before the advent of what scientists and scholars consider to be the beginning of human civilization, there was an age undreamed of ... the age of Atlantis.

The role of religions in the domination and destruction of African civilizations was ruthless... Islam was as guilty as all the rest.

If there hadn't been women we'd still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends.

OYSTER, n. A slimy, gobby shellfish which civilization gives men the hardihood to eat without removing its entrails! The shells are sometimes given to the poor.

We can see quite plainly that our present civilization is built on the exploitation of animals, just as past civilisations were built on the exploitation of slaves.

Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.

If it should turn out that we have mishandled our own lives as several civilizations before us have done, it seems a pity that we should involve the violet and the tree frog in our departure.

We will never have true civilization until we have learned to recognize the rights of others.

God isn't compatible with machinery and scientific medicine and universal happiness. You must make your choice. Our civilization has chosen machinery and medicine and happiness.

The most powerful force in the universe is gossip.

The slum is the measure of civilization.

Imagination is the most powerful force in the universe.

The aim of eugenics is to represent each class or sect by its best specimens; that done, to leave them to work out their common civilization in their own way.

CO2 is the exhaling breath of our civilization, literally... Changing that pattern requires a scope, a scale, a speed of change that is beyond what we have done in the past.

for civilization to survive, the human race has to remain civilized.

Destroying white civilization is the inmost desire of the league of designated victims we call minorities.

Please, never despise the translator. He's the mailman of human civilization.

True Civilization does not lie in gas, nor in steam, nor in turn-tables. It lies in the reduction of the traces of original sin.

Are some free fonts a gift to humanity rather than a blight on typographic civilization ?

In their meditations, the high priests and priestesses of Atlantis had seen that the Atlantean civilization was going to end cataclysmically.

Malibu: With sounds of waves crashing, and the ocean at the doorstep, you feel like you are hours away from civilization. And with L.A. traffic, YOU ARE.

The premise of the Taker story is 'the world belongs to man'. … The premise of the Leaver story is 'man belongs to the world'.

One of the effects of civilization is to diminish the rigour of the application of the law of natural selection. It preserves weakly lives that would have perished in barbarous lands.

I think it is a sad reflection on our civilization that while we can and do measure the temperature in the atmosphere of Venus we do not know what goes on inside our soufflés.

There are historic situations in which refusal to defend the inheritance of a civilization, however imperfect, against tyranny and aggression may result in consequences even worse than war.

By the time the Egyptian civilization had begun to flourish, the earth's aura had already become so dense it was impossible to discover the secret meditation techniques.

Love is the most powerful force in the world.

Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy.

The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.

Civilization will reach maturity only when it learns to value diversity of character and of ideas.

Civilization will end within 15 or 30 years unless immediate action is taken against problems facing mankind.

A democratic civilization will save itself only if it makes the language of the image into a stimulus for critical reflection - not an invitation for hypnosis.

Gorillas are almost altruistic in nature. There's very little if any 'me-itis.' When I get back to civilization I'm always appalled by 'me, me, me.'

It was their intention to start twelve new civilizations similar to Atlantis in these locations.