Civilization Quotes - page 2

Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them. (Alfred North Whitehead)
Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor. View quote
Arnold J. Toynbee
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. View quote
Gertrude Stein
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. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
The strength of a civilization is not measured by its ability to fight wars, but rather by its ability to prevent them. View quote
Gene Roddenberry
It was the Law of the Sea, they said. Civilization ends at the waterline. Beyond that, we all enter the food chain, and not always right at the top. View quote
Hunter S. Thompson
Evolution made civilization steward of this planet. A hundred thousand years later, the steward stood before evolution not helper but destroyer, not healer but parasite. So evolution withdrew its gift, passed civilization by, rescued the planet from intelligence and handed it to love. View quote
Richard Bach
If there hadn't been women we'd still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends. View quote
Orson Welles
If civilization had been left in female hands we would still be living in grass huts. View quote
Camille Paglia
The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization. View quote
Mikhail Gorbachev
Wherever an altar is found, there civilization exists. (Joseph de Maistre)
As civilization advances, poetry almost necessarily declines. View quote
Thomas Babington Macaulay
You think that a wall as solid as the earth separates civilization from barbarism. I tell you the division is a thread, a sheet of glass. A touch here, a push there, and you bring back the reign of Saturn. View quote
John Buchan
Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice. View quote
Will Durant
Ethics, too, are nothing but reverence for life. This is what gives me the fundamental principle of morality, namely, that good consists in maintaining, promoting, and enhancing life, and that destroying, injuring, and limiting life are evil.Civilization and Ethics, 1949. View quote
Albert Schweitzer
Jesus wept; Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived the grace of present civilization. View quote
Victor Hugo
The greatest task before civilization at present is to make machines what they ought to be, the slaves, instead of the masters of men. View quote
Havelock Ellis
All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution. View quote
Havelock Ellis
It is so stupid of modern civilization to have given up believing in the devil, when he is the only explanation of it. View quote
Ronald Knox
Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessaries. View quote
Mark Twain
If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships - the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world at peace. (Franklin D. Roosevelt)
A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan. View quote
Martin Luther King Jr.
We must plant the sea and herd its animals ... using the sea as farmers instead of hunters. That is what civilization is all about - farming replacing hunting. View quote
Jacques-Yves Cousteau
The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization. View quote
Sigmund Freud
A civilization which leaves so large a number of its participants unsatisfied and drives them into revolt neither has nor deserves the prospect of a lasting existence. View quote
Sigmund Freud