Civilization Quotes

If civilization had been left in female hands we would still be living in grass huts.
Camille Paglia

Living, Left, Hands

I have seen the science I worshiped, and the aircraft I loved, destroying the civilization I expected them to serve.
Charles Lindbergh

Science, Loved, Seen

The only people who steal are thieves, and that's a very small percentage of civilization. Most people want to have some way to make the economic transaction valid. They want to return the favor, if you will... return the benefit and reciprocate.
Michael Nesmith

Small, Economic, Return

I don't believe civilization can do a lot more than educate a person's senses.
Grace Paley

Person, Senses, Educate

Without memory, there is no culture. Without memory, there would be no civilization, no society, no future.
Elie Wiesel

Future, Society, Culture

Art is like a border of flowers along the course of civilization.
Lincoln Steffens

Art, Flowers, Along

Everybody thinks that this civilization has lasted a very long time but it really does take very few grandfathers' granddaughters to take us back to the dark ages.
Gertrude Stein

Time, Long, Dark

As I have said for many years throughout this land, we're borrowing money from China to buy oil from the Persian Gulf to burn it in ways that destroy the future of human civilization. Every bit of that has to change.
Al Gore

Change, Money, Future

A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed.
Emile M. Cioran

Gods, Destroyed

What has destroyed every previous civilization has been the tendency to the unequal distribution of wealth and power.
Henry George

Power, Wealth, Destroyed

The new meaning of soul is creativity and mysticism. These will become the foundation of the new psychological type and with him or her will come the new civilization.
Otto Rank

Him, Soul, Creativity

The greatest task before civilization at present is to make machines what they ought to be, the slaves, instead of the masters of men.
Havelock Ellis

Men, Greatest, Before

All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution.
Havelock Ellis

Time, Revolution, Become

The more rapidly a civilization progresses, the sooner it dies for another to rise in its place.
Havelock Ellis

Place, Another, Rise

Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.
Will Durant

Freedom, Order, Activity

Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos.
Will Durant

Liberty, Order, Chaos

Human rights is a universal standard. It is a component of every religion and every civilization.
Shirin Ebadi

Religion, Human, Rights

The destiny of world civilization depends upon providing a decent standard of living for all mankind.
Norman Borlaug

Destiny, Living, Mankind

The worth of a civilization or a culture is not valued in the terms of its material wealth or military power, but by the quality and achievements of its representative individuals - its philosophers, its poets and its artists.
Herbert Read

Power, Worth, Culture

Capitalism inevitably and by virtue of the very logic of its civilization creates, educates and subsidizes a vested interest in social unrest.
Joseph A. Schumpeter

Social, Interest, Logic

Anglo-Saxon civilization has taught the individual to protect his own rights; American civilization will teach him to respect the rights of others.
William Jennings Bryan

Respect, Him, Others

A slight daily unconscious luxury is hardly ever wanting to the dwellers in civilization; like the gentle air of a genial climate, it is a perpetual minute enjoyment.
Walter Bagehot

Daily, Enjoyment, Air

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

Progress, Toward, Coherent

I ascribe a basic importance to the phenomenon of language. To speak means to be in a position to use a certain syntax, to grasp the morphology of this or that language, but it means above all to assume a culture, to support the weight of a civilization.
Frantz Fanon

Speak, Means, Support

Women know what men have long forgotten. The ultimate economic and spiritual unit of any civilization is still the family.
Clare Boothe Luce

Family, Women, Men

The papacy again, representing the traditional unity of European civilization, has also shown itself unable to limit effectively the push of nationalism.
Irving Babbitt

Again, Unity, Push

Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men.
Jane Addams

Men, Respect, Attitude

Civilization rests on the fact that most people do the right thing most of the time.
Dean Koontz

Time, Fact, Rests

Civilization in its present form hasn't got long.
James Lovelock

Long, Present, Hasn

Since the dawn of time, traditional marriage - the union between one man and one woman - has been the building block of civilization, and at no point in our nation's history has that foundation been under more severe attack than now.
Jim DeMint

Marriage, Time, History

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