Civilization Quotes - page 5

The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization. (Frank Lloyd Wright)
The slaves of developed industrial civilization are sublimated slaves. View quote
Herbert Marcuse
Civilization is the art of living in towns of such size that everyone does not know everyone else. View quote
Julian Jaynes
It is clear that every civilization undergoes a process of historical change. We can see that a civilization comes into existence, passes through a long experience, and eventually goes out of existence. View quote
Carroll Quigley
The process by which civilization, as an abstract entity distinct from the societies in which it is embodied, dies or is reborn is a very significant one. View quote
Carroll Quigley
The instrument of expansion of Classical civilization was a social organization, slavery. View quote
Carroll Quigley
Western civilization presents one of the most difficult tasks for historical analysis, because it is not yet finished, because we are a part of it and lack perspective, and because it presents considerable variation from our pattern of historical change. View quote
Carroll Quigley
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. View quote
George Bancroft
The disease of mutual distrust among nations is the bane of modern civilization. View quote
Franz Boas
It is love that will save our world and our civilization, love even for enemies. View quote
Martin Luther King Jr.
Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years. (John Burroughs)
The salt of any interesting civilization is mixture. View quote
Antonio Tabucchi
The conditions of the near future must naturally develop from those which we see today; and I think that as we look about us, unless we are terribly prejudiced, we must admit that in spite of our boasted civilization there is very much which is highly unsatisfactory. p. 324. View quote
Charles Webster Leadbeater
The vast upheaval of the World War set in motion forces that will either destroy civilization or raise mankind to undreamed of heights of human welfare and prosperity. View quote
Arthur Henderson
The more the history of the World War and what led up to it is studied, the more clearly those tragic years become revealed as a vast collapse of civilization. View quote
Arthur Henderson
Four years of world war, at a cost in human suffering which our minds are mercifully too limited to imagine, led to the very clear realization that international anarchy must be abandoned if civilization was to survive. View quote
Arthur Henderson
He would see civilization in danger of perishing under the oppression of a gigantic paradox: he would see multitudes of people starving in the midst of plenty, and nations preparing for war although pledged to peace. View quote
Arthur Henderson
I have to bring to your notice a terrifying reality: with the development of nuclear weapons Man has acquired, for the first time in history, the technical means to destroy the whole of civilization in a single act. View quote
Joseph Rotblat
The world generally speaking is now drifting on a more and more devastating course towards the absurd target of extermination - or rather, to be more exact - of the northern hemisphere's towns, fields, and the people who have developed our civilization. View quote
Alva Myrdal
In any case, in so far as our knowledge of the universe carries us, the advent of civilization for the first time on our globe represents the highest ascent of the life processes to which evolution had anywhere attained. View quote
James Henry Breasted
There was an age, however, when the transition from savagery to civilization, with all its impressive outward manifestations in art and architecture, took place for the first time. (James Henry Breasted)
But it is obvious that our fathers, whose efforts have planted these great and prosperous cities along the once lonely trails of our own broad land, received all the fundamentals of civilization as a heritage from their European ancestors. View quote
James Henry Breasted
To the present writer a careful study of the facts now available seems to leave no doubt that civilization was born at the southeast corner of the Mediterranean. View quote
James Henry Breasted
Our civilization is now in the transition stage between the age of warring empires and a new age of world unity and peace. View quote
John Boyd Orr
War, we are told, shapes character; it resolves the major questions of international politics, consolidates nations, and indeed, constitutes the principal factor in the progress of civilization through its successive stages. View quote
Elie Ducommun