Civilization Quotes - page 6

I leave to the militarists the difficult task of trying to explain to us how these wars have served to shape character or to promote the progress of civilization or to achieve the reign of justice on earth. So far, they have not come forward with the explanation. (Elie Ducommun)
Nothing living should ever be treated with contempt. Whatever it is that lives, a man, a tree, or a bird, should be touched gently, because the time is short. Civilization is another word for respect for life. View quote
Elizabeth Goudge
Internationalism is a community theory of society which is founded on economic, spiritual, and biological facts. It maintains that respect for a healthy development of human society and of world civilization requires that mankind be organized internationally. View quote
Christian Lous Lange
The sovereign state has in our times become a lethal danger to human civilization because technical developments enable it to employ an infinite number and variety of means of destruction. View quote
Christian Lous Lange
History shows us that other highly developed forms of civilization have collapsed. Who knows whether the same fate does not await our own? View quote
Christian Lous Lange
My tendency to idealize Western civilization arises from my nationalistic desire to use the West in order to reform China. But this has led me to overlook the flaws of Western culture. View quote
Liu Xiaobo
Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for education... no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both. View quote
Abraham Flexner
Tolerance is held to be a condition of mind which is encouraged by, and is necessary for, civilization. View quote
Arthur Keith
Had the Hebrews not been disturbed in their progress a thousand and more years ago, they would have solved all the great problems of civilization which are being solved now under all the difficulties imposed by the spirit of the Middle Ages. View quote
Isaac Mayer Wise
The only people who steal are thieves, and that's a very small percentage of civilization. Most people want to have some way to make the economic transaction valid. They want to return the favor, if you will... return the benefit and reciprocate. View quote
Michael Nesmith
It is what you do from now on that will either move our civilization forward a few tiny steps, or else... begin to march us steadily backward. (Patrick Stewart)
The high point of civilization is that you can hate me and I can hate you but we develop an etiquette that allows us to deal with each other because if we acted solely upon our impulse we'd probably go to war. View quote
Stanley Crouch
What do I think of Western civilization? I think it would be a very good idea. View quote
Mahatma Gandhi
Some of the beliefs and legends bequethed to us by Antquity are so universally and firmly established that we have become accustomed to consider them as being almost as ancient as humanity itself. Nevertheless we are tempted to inquire how far the fact that some of these beliefs and legends have so many features in common is due to chance, and wether the similarity between them may not point to the exestience of an ancient, totally unknown and unsuspected civilization of which all other traces have disappeared. View quote
Frederick Soddy
The western nations of Europe, who now so immeasurably surpass their former savage progenitors, and stand at the summit of civilization, owe little or none of their superiority to direct inheritance from the old Greeks, though they owe much to the written works of that wonderful people. View quote
Charles Darwin
The solution to women's issues can only be achieved in a free and democratic society in which human energy is liberated, the energy of both women and men together. Our civilization is called human civilization and is not attributed only to men or women. View quote
Tawakkol Karman
Without security, civilization is cramped and dwarfed. Without security, there can be no freedom. Nor shall I say too much, when I declare that security, guarded of course by its offspring, freedom, is the true end and aim of government. View quote
Charles Sumner
Our "society" is not a community, but merely a collection of isolated family units. Desperately insecure, fearing his woman will leave him if she's exposed to other men or to anything remotely resembling life, the male seeks to isolate her from other men and from what little civilization there is, so he moves her out to the suburbs, a collection of self-absorbed couples and their kids. Isolation, further, enables him to try to maintain his pretense of being an individual by being a "rugged individualist", a loner, equating non-co-operation and solitariness with individuality. View quote
Valerie Solanas
What an extraordinary achievement for a civilization: to have developed the one diet that reliably makes its people sick! View quote
Michael Pollan
At issue in the Hiss Case was the question whether this sick society, which we call Western civilization, could in its extremity still cast up a man whose faith in it was so great that he would voluntarily abandon those things which men hold good, including life, to defend it. View quote
Whittaker Chambers
A democratic civilization will save itself only if it makes the language of the image into a stimulus for critical reflection - not an invitation for hypnosis. (Umberto Eco)
Human rights is a universal standard. It is a component of every religion and every civilization. View quote
Shirin Ebadi
Civilization is the process of setting man free from men. View quote
Ayn Rand
If any civilization is to survive, it is the morality of altruism that men have to reject. View quote
Ayn Rand
What can we expect from nations still less advanced in civilization than the Greeks? View quote
Jean-Baptiste Say