Civilization Quotes

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

Anything that we scientists can do to weaken the hold of religion, should be done and may, in fact, in the end, be our greatest contribution to civilization.

There is no document of civilization which is not at the same time a document of barbarism.

If human civilization is going to invade the waters of the earth, then let it be first of all to carry a message of respect.

Elvis Presley is the main founding father of rock music. He was an unheralded genius behind a new music that changed western civilization for all time.

The man ignorant of mathematics will be increasingly limited in his grasp of the main forces of civilization.

Civilization as it is known today could not have evolved, nor can it survive, without an adequate food supply.

Civilization may be said indeed to be the creation of its outlaws.

Modern civilization has no understanding of sacred matters. Everything is backwards.

Saving civilization is not a spectator sport.

I believe that truth is the glue that holds government together, not only our government, but civilization itself.

Beauty has no obvious use; nor is there any clear cultural necessity for it. Yet civilization could not do without it.

The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself.

In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is stoned to death.

One could judge the degree of civilization of a country by the social and political position of its women

Tribalism is the most powerful force in the world.

It is hard to imagine a civilization without onions.

To speak...means above all to assume a culture, to support the weight of a civilization.

Energy is the only universal currency: one of its many forms must be transformed to another in order for stars to shine, planets to rotate, plants to grow, and civilizations to evolve.

The whole inspiration of our civilization springs from the teachings of Christ and the lessons of the prophets. To read the Bible for these fundamentals is a necessity of American life.

All over the world the wildlife that I write about is in grave danger. It is being exterminated by what we call the progress of civilization.

Women's fight for equal rights is essentially a humanist and peaceful struggle for true democracy, and a higher form of civilization.

The triumph of persuasion over force is the sign of a civilized society.

A dialogue among civilizations can be seen as a dialogue between the individual and the universal.

All our civilization is based on invention; before invention, men lived on fruits and nuts and pine cones and slept in caves.

A civilization which leaves so large a number of its participants unsatisfied and drives them into revolt neither has nor deserves the prospect of a lasting existence.

Each divorce is the death of a small civilization.

At the root of our civilization, there is the freedom of each person of thought, of belief, of opinion, of work, of leisure.

The culture of a civilization is the art and literature through which it rises to consciousness of itself and defines its vision of the world.

We can either build a Star Trek future, in which our civilization rises to new heights, or descend into a Mad Max world. It is up to us.

We are born princes and the civilizing process makes us frogs.

The world is so dreadfully managed, one hardly knows to whom to complain.

The great enemy of any attempt to change men's habits is inertia. Civilization is limited by intertia.

Woman will ignore precedent and startle civilization with their progress.

The only hope is that our civilization will collapse at a certain point, as always happens in history. Then, out of barbarity, a renaissance.

The possibility of reduced-time interstellar travel either by advanced extraterrestrial civilizations at present or ourselves in the future, is not fundamentally constrained by physical principles.

Art is a staple of mankind... So urgent, so utterly linked with the pulse of feeling that it becomes the singular sign of life when every other aspect of civilization fails.

Arab civilization has collapsed. It won’t recover in my lifetime.

The more I see of what you call civilization, the more highly I think of what you call savagery!

The perfect normal person is rare in our civilization.

Western civilization is a loaded gun pointed at the head of this planet.

Style is about the choices you make to create the aspects of civilization that you wish to uphold.

Handwriting is civilization's casual encephalogram.

An important aspect of the Eurasian worldview is an absolute denial of Western civilization. In the opinion of the Eurasians, the West with its ideology of liberalism is an absolute evil.

Present-Day Wickedness, Apostasy and Modern Civilization Cannot Prevent Revival.

The time has come to choose a new direction of global development, to opt for a new civilization.

By suppressing differences and peculiarities, by eliminating different civilizations and cultures, progress weakens life and favors death

It is impossible to overlook the extent to which civilization is built upon a renunciation of instinct.

The seeds of civilization are in every culture, but it is city life that brings them to fruition.

In our civilization, men are afraid that they will not be men enough and women are afraid that they might be considered only women.