Top 1200 Civilization Quotes & Sayings - Page 10
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Last updated on December 12, 2024.
No country can reach a high stage of civilization without a leisure class.
There is something even more valuable to civilization than wisdom, and that is character.
Teachers are more than any other group the guardians of civilization.
There's no such thing as civilization. The word just means the art of living in cities.
Terrorism is a horrible thing that is the great threat to civilization on our planet.
The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.
As long as you have war, police, prisons, crime, you are in the early stages of civilization.
No civilization, no matter how mighty it may appear to itself, is indestructible.
What can we expect from nations still less advanced in civilization than the Greeks?
Free speech is not just another value. It's the foundation of Western civilization.
Our civilization is flinging itself to pieces. Stand back from the centrifuge.
Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
Machinery is the chief symbol of modern civilization; it represents a great sin.
Civilization as we know it today would be in jeopardy if the Republicans win the Senate.
My songs are a mix of my own weird raised-by-wolves perspective and civilization.
Hackers are seen as shadowy figures with superhuman powers that threaten civilization.
America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
Poetry is the elder sister of history, the mother of language, the ancestress of civilization.
The real triumph of civilization is the extent to which coercion is banished from human relations.
If there is one beast in all the loathsome fauna of civilization I hate and despise it is a man of the world.
A civilization which has taken over the world cannot be said to be dying.
Imagine what things would be like if the news media actually sided with civilization.
Gay people are not in the habit of thinking of ourselves as leading our civilization, and yet we do.
Can a civilization hold together if man abandons his faith in God?
It is impossible to overlook the extent to which civilization is built upon a renunciation of instinct.
A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within.
Every advance in civilization has been denounced as unnatural while it was recent
The measure of civilization in a people is to be found in its just appreciation of the wrongfulness of war.
The history of civilization could actually be written in terms of the level of its women.
Whatever fosters the growth of civilization works at the same time against war.
Civilization survives on the constant discovery of amity and an equal supply of damnation.
I have always believed that technology drives human civilization's endeavor and progress.
If civilization has an opposite, it is war. Of these two things, you have either one, or the other. Not both.
Civilization - a heap of rubble scavenged by scrawny English Lit. vultures.
When thought races ahead of Being, a civilization is racing towards destruction.
The luxuries of civilization satisfy only those wants which they themselves create.
I think it's motivating and exalting when we defend ideas that are at the foundation of western civilization.
Civilization does everything for the mind and favors it entirely at the expense of the body.
Break the skin of civilization and you find the ape, roaring and red-handed.
Civilization is the distance man has placed between himself and his excreta.
Arts are a luxury, proof that a civilization has risen above 'politics and war.'
In a world flagrant with the failures of civilization, what is there particularly immortal about our own?
The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded upon the spirituality of work.
A civilization begins to decline the moment Life becomes its sole obsession.
A monument's dimensions should be determined by the importance to civilization of the events commemorated.
I do not believe that civilizations have to die because civilization is not an organism. It is a product of wills.
In order for us to have a future that's exciting and inspiring, it has to be one where we're a space-bearing civilization.
The glossy surface of our civilization hides a real intellectual decadence.
The disease of mutual distrust among nations is the bane of modern civilization.
The gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature, and poetry, and all that is spiritual.
Civilization never recedes; the law of necessity ever forces it onwards.
Civilization itself . . . can easily be swept aside when mob passions are aroused.
No human civilization could ever sever our dependence on photosynthesis.
The wise use of leisure, it must be conceded, is a product of civilization and education.
Everything we have of value as human beings - as a civilization - is the result of our intelligence.
No civilization other than that which is Christian, is worth seeking or possessing.
Today's interpretations of religion are often backward and contradict the needs of civilization.
You can't say civilization don't advance... in every war they kill you in a new way.
If men do not now succeed in abolishing war, civilization and mankind are doomed.
We are not on the way to greater individualism, but are becoming an increasingly manipulated mass civilization.
