Civilization Quotes

I would say colonialism is a wonderful thing. It spread civilization to Africa. Before it they had no written language, no wheel as we know it, no schools, no hospitals, not even normal clothing.
Ian Smith

Before, Wonderful, Language

The two World Wars came in part, like much modern literature and art, because men, whose nature is to tire of everything in turn... tired of common sense and civilization.
F. L. Lucas

Nature, Men, Art

Western civilization, Christianity, decency are struggling for their very lives. In this worldwide civil war, race prejudice is our most dangerous enemy, for it is a disease at the very root of our democratic life.
Mordecai Wyatt Johnson

Life, War, Enemy

Civilization is the distance man has placed between himself and his excreta.
Brian Aldiss

Between, Himself, Distance

Had the Hebrews not been disturbed in their progress a thousand and more years ago, they would have solved all the great problems of civilization which are being solved now under all the difficulties imposed by the spirit of the Middle Ages.
Isaac Mayer Wise

Great, Problems, Progress

China is a civilization pretending to be a nation.
Michael Ledeen

Nation, Pretending, China

Without winners, there wouldn't even be any civilization.
Woody Hayes

I should like to say that I am as proud of my Chinese heritage and background as I am devoted to modern science, a part of human civilization of Western origin, to which I have dedicated and I shall continue to dedicate my work.
Chen Ning Yang

Work, Science, Human

To one who believes that really good industrial conditions are the hope for a machine civilization, nothing is more heartening than to watch conference methods and education replacing police methods.
Frances Perkins

Education, Good, Hope

There is precious little in civilization to appeal to a Yeti.
Edmund Hillary

Precious, Appeal

It's just a show. It's not the end of Western Civilization. It's chewing gum.
Jerry Springer

End, Show, Western

In this respect, the history of science, like the history of all civilization, has gone through cycles.
Abdus Salam

History, Respect, Science

Here the Frenchman, Spaniard, and Englishman all passed, leaving each his legend; and a brilliant and more or less feudal civilization with its aristocracy and slaves has departed with the economic system upon which it rested.
Hervey Allen

Leaving, Here, Less

My tendency to idealize Western civilization arises from my nationalistic desire to use the West in order to reform China. But this has led me to overlook the flaws of Western culture.
Liu Xiaobo

Desire, Culture, Order

Give me civilization. I don't want to be pampered.
Jennifer Esposito

On a group of theories one can found a school; but on a group of values one can found a culture, a civilization, a new way of living together among men.
Ignazio Silone

Men, School, Together

Casper Wyo., population 18,000 when I was born, was large enough to hold the surprises of civilization, but small enough that the prairie was close by - for some in our town, right out the front door - stretching on forever, under the great curving sky.
Lynne Cheney

Great, Small, Enough

Yet, history has shown that if material force can defeat some ideologies it can no longer obliterate a civilization without destabilizing the whole planet.
Abdelaziz Bouteflika

History, Whole, Defeat

I consider that there are different degrees of civilization and there are many different ways of expressing it. But one is civilized or is not.
Flora Lewis

Different, Ways, Consider

Western civilization shapes the content of my films, provides me with subjects that haven't been used before.
Eric Rohmer

Before, Used, Content

No matter what we call it, poison is still poison, death is still death, and industrial civilization is still causing the greatest mass extinction in the history of the planet.
Derrick Jensen

History, Death, Greatest

Civilization can never be sustainable.
Derrick Jensen

Civilization is not a spontaneous generation with any race or nation known to history, but the torch to be handed down from race to race from age to age.
Kelly Millar

Age, History, Down

The story of civilization is, in a sense, the story of engineering - that long and arduous struggle to make the forces of nature work for man's good.
L. Sprague de Camp

Work, Nature, Good

The last struggle for our rights, the battle for our civilization, is entirely with ourselves.
William Wells Brown

Struggle, Battle, Last

Each man has an equal social right to multiply his power of motion by all the social factors of civilization. Private property in any of these factors is inconsistent with this fundamental right; it must, obviously, prove a source of economic despotism and industrial slavery.
Daniel De Leon

Power, Social, Economic

I ever will profess myself the greatest friend to those whose actions best correspond with their doctrine; which, I am sorry to say, is too seldom the case amongst those nations who pretend most to civilization.
J. G. Stedman

Best, Sorry, Greatest

Violence and irrationality were so long and thoroughly cultivated among the Irish, and so perfectly ingrained into their nature, that modern civilization has as yet been unable to extract the virus.
Thomas Mellon

Nature, Long, Violence

To make the moral achievement implicit in science a source of strength to civilization, the scientist will have to have the cooperation also of the philosopher and the religious teacher.
Arthur Holly Compton

Strength, Science, Teacher

The writer in western civilization has become not a voice of his tribe, but of his individuality. This is a very narrow-minded situation.
Aharon Appelfeld

Become, Situation, Voice

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