Civilization Quotes

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.
Gerald Durrell

Write, Progress, Call

What most people don't seem to realize is that there is just as much money to be made out of the wreckage of a civilization as from the upbuilding of one.
Margaret Mitchell

Money, Realize, Seem

The poet Melvin B. Tolson once said, 'A civilization is judged only in its decline.' That made sense to me. I would imagine the same is true for poets and tennis players.
Nikki Giovanni

True, Same, Said

We know we need civilization and laws and procedures, but isn't it frustrating? Wouldn't it be great if we could just do what we needed to do?
Lee Child

Great, Needed, Laws

Chastity is the cement of civilization and progress. Without it there is no stability in society, and without it one cannot attain the Science of Life.
Mary Baker Eddy

Life, Society, Science

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

Change, Through, Before

Civilization is like a thin layer of ice upon a deep ocean of chaos and darkness.
Werner Herzog

Deep, Darkness, Ocean

For the liberal state to accommodate a diversity of beliefs while having few positive convictions is one of the more admirable achievements of civilization.
Terry Eagleton

Positive, Few, While

It's the Law of God that gave the stability to Christian civilization.
Randall Terry

God, Law, Christian

I would seriously question whether anybody is really foolish enough to really say what they mean. Sometimes I think that civilization as we know it would kind of break down if we all were completely honest.
Elizabeth Hurley

Mean, Down, Enough

'Buncha Losers' comedy is one of those homegrown American art forms, up there with infomercials and Elvis-shaped soap carvings. No other civilization could have invented it. The French took a stab with Sartre's 'No Exit,' but then they had to ruin it with a lesson at the end.
Rob Sheffield

Art, End, American

God bless America - what other civilization would give Patrick Dempsey another shot to rule as a sex symbol, twenty years after 'Meatballs III: Summer Job?' His reign as Dr. McDreamy on 'Grey's Anatomy' is proof that there's nothing we love more than giving Eighties celebs a heartwarming second stab at life.
Rob Sheffield

Life, Love, God

Peace on earth would mean the end of civilization as we know it.
Joseph Heller

Peace, End, Mean

The salt of any interesting civilization is mixture.
Antonio Tabucchi

Seriously, 'Honey Boo Boo' is the decay of Western civilization. Just because so many people watch the show doesn't mean it's good.
Adam Levine

Good, Mean, Show

Terrorism is a horrible thing that is the great threat to civilization on our planet.
Walter Isaacson

Great, Terrorism, Planet

It has been well said that tea is suggestive of a thousand wants, from which spring the decencies and luxuries of civilization.
Agnes Repplier

Spring, Said, Wants

Against the dark background of this contemporary civilization of well-being, even the arts tend to mingle, to lose their identity.
Eugenio Montale

Dark, Lose, Against

Civilization, we shall find, like Universalism and Christianity, is anti evolutionary in its effects; it works against the laws and conditions which regulated the earlier stages of man's ascent.
Arthur Keith

Find, Against, Shall

History shows us that other highly developed forms of civilization have collapsed. Who knows whether the same fate does not await our own?
Christian Lous Lange

History, Same, Whether

The ultimate tendency of civilization is towards barbarism.
David Hare

Ultimate, Barbarism, Tendency

Right now, there's the illusion of order and civilization, but there's a tremendous amount of economic tension in this country and the educational system is constantly eroding.
Kathryn Bigelow

Country, Order, System

I have increasingly, over the years, felt that religion today does our civilization more harm than good.
Mary Douglas

Religion, Good, Today

In our western civilization we have the glorious example, the great standard of perfection and the teachings of the Christ to guide us. He acts for us as Mediator between our personality and our Soul.
Edward Bach

Great, Soul, Between

Cities have always been the fireplaces of civilization, whence light and heat radiated out into the dark.
Theodore Parker

Dark, Light, Heat

If mankind were to continue in other than the present barbarism, a new path must be found, a new civilization based on some other method than technology.
Clifford D. Simak

Technology, Path, Found

Civilization is the lamb's skin in which barbarism masquerades.
Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Skin, Barbarism, Lamb

My argument is simple, which is, that for several thousand years in Western civilization, marriage has been the union of one man and one woman. Research is overwhelming that children need mothers and fathers.
Gary Bauer

Marriage, Simple, Children

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

Sea, Beginning, Ideas

In a country of such recent civilization as ours, whose almost limitless treasures of material wealth invite the risks of capital and the industry of labor, it is but natural that material interests should absorb the attention of the people to a degree elsewhere unknown.
Felix Adler

Country, Attention, Almost

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