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

The salt of any interesting civilization is mixture.
Antonio Tabucchi

Speech is civilization itself.
Thomas Mann

Today's interpretations of religion are often backward and contradict the needs of civilization.
Naguib Mahfouz

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

Civilization grew in the beginning from the minute that we had communication - particularly communication by sea that enabled people to get inspiration and ideas from each other and to exchange basic raw materials.
Thor Heyerdahl

We have always been taught that navigation is the result of civilization, but modern archeology has demonstrated very clearly that this is not so.
Thor Heyerdahl

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

It will take a long time, and certainly the West will remain the dominant civilization well into the next century, but the decline is occurring.
Samuel P. Huntington

I feel this is very important for us to have serene buildings because our civilization is chaotic as it is, you see; our whole machine age has brought about a chaos that has to be somehow counterbalanced, I think.
Minoru Yamasaki

Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them.
Alfred North Whitehead

Without adventure civilization is in full decay.
Alfred North Whitehead

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

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.
Henry Ellis

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

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

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

The world had already changed before September 11. The world has been going through a process of change over the last 20 or 30 years. A civilization ends, another one begins.
Jose Saramago

Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor.
Arnold J. Toynbee

I do not believe that civilizations have to die because civilization is not an organism. It is a product of wills.
Arnold J. Toynbee