Civilization Quotes

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.
Aldous Huxley

Happiness, God, Choice

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

God, Down, Speeding

Each new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little barbarians, who must be civilized before it is too late.
Thomas Sowell

Before, Born, Late

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.
Victor Hugo

Women, True, Name

In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.
Ambrose Bierce

Government, Republican, Office

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

Accept, Force, Prepared

The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion.
Thomas Carlyle

Religion, Great, Gun

The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.
Sigmund Freud

Human, Insult, Stone

Civilization... wrecks the planet from seafloor to stratosphere.
Richard Bach

Mankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell.
George Orwell

Good, Evil, Hell

Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime.
Victor Hugo

Peace, War, Crime

We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology.
Carl Sagan

Science, Technology, Depend

Hold fast to the Bible. To the influence of this Book we are indebted for all the progress made in true civilization and to this we must look as our guide in the future.
Ulysses S. Grant

Future, True, Book

The first requisite of civilization is that of justice.
Sigmund Freud

Justice, Requisite

A civilization is a heritage of beliefs, customs, and knowledge slowly accumulated in the course of centuries, elements difficult at times to justify by logic, but justifying themselves as paths when they lead somewhere, since they open up for man his inner distance.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Knowledge, Difficult, Themselves

We believe that civilization has been created under the pressure of the exigencies of life at the cost of satisfaction of the instincts.
Sigmund Freud

Life, Pressure, Cost

The development of civilization and industry in general has always shown itself so active in the destruction of forests that everything that has been done for their conservation and production is completely insignificant in comparison.
Karl Marx

Everything, Done, General

To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization.
George Orwell

Doubt, Through, Walk

The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization.
Sigmund Freud

Greatest, Before, Liberty

I had faith in Israel before it was established, I have in it now. I believe it has a glorious future before it - not just another sovereign nation, but as an embodiment of the great ideals of our civilization.
Harry S. Truman

Faith, Great, Future

Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization.
Ambrose Bierce

Person, Makes, Believes

If the battle for civilization comes down to the wimps versus the barbarians, the barbarians are going to win.
Thomas Sowell

Battle, Win, Down

Our society must make it right and possible for old people not to fear the young or be deserted by them, for the test of a civilization is the way that it cares for its helpless members.
Pearl S. Buck

Fear, Society, Young

The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much. In public affairs, in the rebuilding of civilization, something less dramatic and emotional is needed, namely tolerance.
E. M. Forster

Love, Emotional, Cannot

Civilization and profit go hand in hand.
Calvin Coolidge

The best security for civilization is the dwelling, and upon properly appointed and becoming dwellings depends, more than anything else, the improvement of mankind.
Benjamin Disraeli

Best, Else, Security

The prevalence of suicide, without doubt, is a test of height in civilization; it means that the population is winding up its nervous and intellectual system to the utmost point of tension and that sometimes it snaps.
Havelock Ellis

Doubt, Sometimes, Means

A civilization is built on what is required of men, not on that which is provided for them.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Men, Provided, Built

Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
Will Durant

Change, Subject, Exists

The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.
Frank Lloyd Wright

Art, Mother, Soul

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