Top 100 Civilization Is Quotes
#1. The age in which we live can only be characterized as one of barbarism. Our civilization is in the process not only of being militarized, but also being brutalized.
Alva Myrdal
#2. A world government with powers adequate to guarantee security is not a remote ideal for the distant future. It is an urgent necessity if our civilization is to survive.
Albert Einstein
#3. Every monument of civilization is a monument of barbarism
Walter Benjamin
#4. Civilization is in a race between education and catastrophe. Let us learn the truth and spread it as far and wide as our circumstances allow. For the truth is the greatest weapon we have.
H.G.Wells
#5. The great enemy of any attempt to change men's habits is inertia. Civilization is limited by intertia.
Edward L. Bernays
#6. The measure of progress of civilization is the progress of the people.
George Bancroft
#7. Rebuilding India is the mandate that India might have given its new leader. But rebuilding Hindu civilization is something that every one of us must be doing,
Vamsee Juluri
#8. Every civilization is, among other things, an arrangement for domesticating the passions and setting them to do useful work.
Aldous Huxley
#9. Civilization is always threatened from below, by patterns of belief and emotion that may once have been useful to our ancestors, but that are useful no longer.
Roger Scruton
#10. Human civilization is not something achieved against nature; it is rather the outcome of the working of the innate qualities of man.
Ludwig Von Mises
#11. But the further step, by means of which a civilization is given its quality or culture, is only attained by a process of cellular division, in the course of which the individual is differentiated, made distinct from and independent of the parent group.
Herbert Read
#12. Civilization is the art of creating useless needs.
Leo Errera
#13. As long as our civilization is essentially one of property, of fences, of exclusiveness, it will be mocked by delusions.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#14. Civilization is the intelligent management of human emotions.
Jim Rohn
#15. The decline and fall of a civilization is barely noticed by most of its citizens.
James Cook
#17. This is all-out, give-no-mercy warfare. The survival of civilization is at stake. What do we do now? All eyes turned toward Meina Gladstone.
Anonymous
#18. Today we are faced with the pre-eminent fact that if civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships, the ability of all peoples of all kins to live together and to work together in the same world at peace.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
#19. The soul of a civilization is its religion, and it dies with its faith.
Will Durant
#20. Evans: We don't know what extraterrestrial civilization is like, but we know humanity.
Liu Cixin
#21. Iraq is no diversion. It is a place where civilization is taking a decisive stand against chaos and terror, we must not waver.
George W. Bush
#22. The keynote of American civilization is a sort of warm-hearted vulgarity. The Americans have none of the irony of the English, none of their cool poise, none of their manner. But they do have friendliness. Where an Englishman would give you his card, an American would very likely give you his shirt.
Raymond Chandler
#23. Civilization ... is another word for respect for life. One can't have too much respect for a loveliness that's brittle as spun glass.
Elizabeth Goudge
#24. I've been thinking about the distorted view of science that prevails in our culture. I've been wondering about this, because our civilization is completely dependent on science and high technology, yet most of us are alienated from science.
Ann Druyan
#25. Every civilization is a fruit from the sturdy tree of barbarism, and falls at the greatest distance from its trunk.
Will Durant
#26. The wind whips through the canyons of the American Southwest, and there is no one to hear it but us - a reminder of the 40,000 generations of thinking men and women who preceded us, about whom we know almost nothing, upon whom our civilization is based.
Carl Sagan
#27. Alcohol was the reason we formed complex civilizations, and having to deal with the complexities of civilization is the reason most of us need alcohol.
David Wong
#28. The word civilization to my mind is coupled with death. When I use the word, I see civilization as a crippling, thwarting thing, a stultifying thing. For me it was always so. I don't believe in the golden ages, you see ... civilization is the arteriosclerosis of culture.
Henry Miller
#29. Civilization is a fiction which becomes a fact only as long as everyone can believe in it. It is the cynic, rather than the rebel, who pulls down the whole flimsy structure periodically throughout history.
Helen McCloy
#31. There is an old saying that the course of civilization is a race between catastrophe and education. In a democracy such as ours, we must make sure that education wins the race.
John F. Kennedy
#32. Perhaps Western civilization is in a post-decline phase, or maybe the decline is just taking a really long time, like the Roman Empire's did. The Romans had gladiators and Christian-hungry lions and that sort of thing. We have MTV.
Tom Shales
#33. All our civilization is based on invention; before invention, men lived on fruits and nuts and pine cones and slept in caves.
Reginald Fessenden
#34. The price we pay for our advance in civilization is a loss of happiness through the heightening of the sense of guilt.
Sigmund Freud
#35. Modern civilization is a product of an energy binge. Binges often end in hangovers.
Alfred W. Crosby
#36. I think civilization is going to get to a point where we suddenly become responsible, stewards of the whole evolutionary process. This requires domains of consciousness, not just levels and frequencies.
Jean Houston
#37. In basic terms, civilization is dependent upon the spontaneity and fulfillment of the individual. Your civilization is in sad straits. Not because you are allowed spontaneity or fulfillment to individuals, but because you are denied it, and because your institutions are based upon that premise.
Seth
#39. The world no longer has a choice between force and law; if civilization is to survive, it must choose the rule of law.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
#40. ... Mellor's statement is extremist in two directions: human civilization is in imminent peril, and only one solution will work. I doubt both these formulations, and almost every fiction I have encountered that depends upon them.
Richard T. Nash
#41. The line of least resistance in the progress of civilization is to make that theoretical postulate real by the continually increasing force of the world's public opinion.
Elihu Root
#42. Our civilization is now in the transition stage between the age of warring empires and a new age of world unity and peace.
John Boyd Orr
#43. A commercial civilization is money-oriented, profit-oriented. Commercial values always tend to wrench a society free of tradition.Economics from education to public service is being reorganized on the self-destructive basis of self-interest.
John Ralston Saul
#44. Listen, I have been educated.
I have learned about Western
Civilization. Do you know
What the message of Western
Civilization is? I am alone.
Eileen Myles
#45. It is just because civilization is ever evolving, changing, and becoming more complicated, that experts find it so difficult to define it in explicit terms.
Arthur Keith
#46. Civilization is a mutant beast that emerged from the shattered egg of primitive stability.-Sissy Hankshaw
Tom Robbins
#47. Zoo is an artificial territory, an approximation. Civilization is our natural territory.
Yann Martel
#48. I think our civilization is minimal enough without underlining it. Sculpture as a created object in space should enrich, not reflect, and should be beautiful. Beauty is its function.
Barbara Chase-Riboud
#49. Civilization is the ability to share what makes us similar in the respect of what makes us different.
Dario De Judicibus
#50. The military superiority of Europe to Asia is not an eternal law of nature, as we are tempted to think, and our superiority in civilization is a mere delusion.
Bertrand Russell
#51. Civilization is but a thin veneer stretched across the passions of the human heart. And civilization doesn't just happen; we have to make it happen.
Bill Moyers
#52. The most striking contradiction of our civilization is the fundamental reverence for truth which we profess and the thorough-going disregard for it which we practice.
Vilhjalmur Stefansson
#53. The exact measure of the progress of civilization is the degree in which the intelligence of the common mind has prevailed over wealth and brute force.
George Bancroft
#54. It is by losing ourselves in inquiry, creation & craft that we become something. Civilization is a continual gift of spirit: inventions, discoveries, insight, art. We are citizens, as Socrates would have said, & we have it available as our own.
Paul Goodman
#55. If superior creatures from space ever visit earth, the first question they will ask, in order to assess the level of our civilization, is: 'Have they discovered evolution yet?
Richard Dawkins
#56. Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.
Herbert Spencer
#57. The flowering of civilization is the finished man, the man of sense, of grace, of accomplishment, of social power
the gentleman.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#58. Civilization is the way one's own people live. Savagery is the way foreigners live.
Octavia E. Butler
#59. Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy.
Ayn Rand
#61. When civilization is strong and widespread enough, "culture" will appear and take care of itself.
John Lukacs
#62. The ultimate test of any civilization is how we treat the most vulnerable ... what we do to our children. Our world has lost its direction.
Ravi Zacharias
#63. We Christians must simplify our lives or lose untold treasures on earth and in eternity. Modern civilization is so complex as to make the devotional life all but impossible. The need for solitude and quietness was never greater than it is today.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#64. The misogyny that shapes every aspect of our civilization is the institutionalized form of male fear and hatred of what they have denied and therefore cannot know, cannot share: that wild country, the being of women.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#65. The test of a civilization is in the way that it cares for its helpless members
Pearl S. Buck
#66. Civilization is a failure. We need to think what we can do together in love and peace.
Serj Tankian
#67. Our civilization is first and foremost a civilization of means; in the reality of modern life, the means, it would seem, are more important than the ends. Any other assessment of the situation is mere idealism.
Jacques Ellul
#68. The whole purpose of civilization is to take the surprises out of life, so one can be bored to death
Murray Leinster
#69. We can see quite plainly that our present civilization is built on the exploitation of animals, just as past civilisations were built on the exploitation of slaves.
Donald Watson
#70. Civilization is the art of living in towns of such size the everyone does not know everyone else.
Julian Jaynes
#71. An assault on an ideology is not merely different from a threat made to a person; it is the opposite of a threat made to a person. The whole end of liberal civilization is to substitute the criticism of ideas for assaults on people.
Adam Gopnik
#72. Let me repeat that: Our civilization is constitutionally incapable of reversing the annihilation of natural capital, or even slowing it down. Get used to that. When we really understand that, the project of reconceiving civilization itself will gain powerful impetus.
Charles Eisenstein
#74. Civilization is nothing more than the effort to reduce the use of force to the last resort.
Jose Ortega Y Gasset
#75. The measure of any great civilization is its cities and a measure of a city's greatness is to be found in the quality of its public spaces, its parks and squares.
John Ruskin
#77. How idiotic civilization is! Why be given a body if you have to keep it shut up in a case like a rare, rare fiddle?
Katherine Mansfield
#78. Not long ago I heard a Navy chaplain refer to the sage advice of the Apostle to put first things first ... If we are to heed the admonition to put first things first ... one of the main essentials which lies at the very beginning of civilization is that of security.
Calvin Coolidge
#79. You think civilization is some horrible, polluting human invention that separates us from the state of nature. But civilization doesn't separate us from nature. Civilization protects us from nature.
CRICHTON Michael
#80. Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men.
Jane Addams
#81. You are an ignorant schoolgirl. You think civilization is a good thing.
Tom Robbins
#82. Our entire civilization is built on a foundation of unfixable bullshit.
Joe Rogan
#83. The battlefields where the dice of world history have been thrown can never be ordinary fields again and no god from a vanished civilization is so dead that he does not live on in his ruined temple.
Goran Schildt
#84. Civilization is the mastery of violence, the triumph, constantly challenged, over the aggressive nature of the primate. For primates we have been and primates we shall remain, however often we learn to find joy in a camellia on moss. This is the very purpose of education.
Muriel Barbery
#85. The self, entirely encompassed by civilization, is dissolved in an element composed of the very inhumanity which civilization has sought from the first to escape.
Max Horkheimer
#86. Civilization is unbearable, but it is less unbearable at the top.
Timothy Leary
#87. They say the level of civilization is proportionate to the degree of cleanliness of the skin. Assuming that man has a soul, it must, in all likelihood, be housed in the skin.
Kobo Abe
#88. If our civilization is destroyed, it will not be by barbarians from below. Our barbarians come from above.
Henry Demarest Lloyd
#89. I have always believed that resistance against repression and violence is possible without relying on similar repression and violence. I have always believed that human civilization is the fruit of the effort of both women and men.
Tawakkol Karman
#90. Among the illusions which have invested our civilization is an absolute belief that the solutions to our problems must be a more determined application of rationally organized expertise ... The reality is that our problems are largely the product of that application.
Voltaire
#91. A useful analogy is to see traditional societies as relying on instantaneous (or minimally delayed) and constantly replenished solar income, while modern civilization is withdrawing accumulated solar capital at rates that will exhaust it in a tiny fraction of the time that was needed to create it.
Vaclav Smil
#92. Civilization is not an incurable disease, but it should never be forgotten that the English people are at present afflicted by it.
Mahatma Gandhi
#93. A civilization is built on what is required of men, not on that which is provided for them.
Antoine De Saint-Exupery
#94. The best test of the quality of a civilization is the quality of its leisure.
Irwin Edman
#95. 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
#96. A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed.
Emile M. Cioran
#97. When you look on one of your contemporary 'good copies' of historical remains, ask yourself the question: Not what style, but in what civilization is this building? And the absurdity, vulgarity, anachronism and solecism of the modern structure will be revealed to you in a most startling fashion.
Louis Sullivan
#98. Civilization is only a series of victories against nature.
William Harvey
#100. Civilization is a race between education and catastrophe. - H. G. Wells
Ken Robinson
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