Top 1200 Civilization Quotes & Sayings - Page 12
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Last updated on December 12, 2024.
What has destroyed every previous civilization has been the tendency to the unequal distribution of wealth and power.
The great menace of civilization in the present is that we offer an education with too little regard for the roots.
Unless we redesign our civilization in numerous ways, all of the science in the world won't save us.
Western civilization is based upon the libertarian principle, and all its achievements are the results of the action of free men.
It has been said that civilization is twenty-four hours and two meals away from barbarism.
Work is not a curse; it is the prerogative of intelligence, the only means to manhood, and the measure of civilization.
It was very relaxing to be away from civilization, and this bothered me. I should not have found the loneliness so welcoming.
Of all nations, those submit to civilization with the most difficulty which habitually live by the chase.
Civilization is not an incurable disease, but it should never be forgotten that the English people are at present afflicted by it.
As long as our civilization is essentially one of property, of fences, of exclusiveness, it will be mocked by delusions.
It is only through books that we partake of the great harvest that is human civilization across the ages.
From first to last the civilization of America has been bound up with its physical environment.
The origin of civilization is man's determination to do nothing for himself which he can get done for him.
A civilization in which there is not a continuous controversy about important issues is on the way to totalitarianism and death
An odd thing occurs in the minds of Americans when Indian civilization in mentioned: little or nothing.
If we wish our civilization to survive we must break with the habit of deference to great men.
Did you eat something that didn't agree with you?" asked Bernard. The Savage nodded "I ate civilization.
Civilization, in the real sense of the term, consists not in the multiplication, but in the deliberate and voluntary reduction of wants.
Black men of Carthage, Ethiopia, of Timbuktu and Alexandria gave the likes of civilization to this world
John Stockton is one of the true marvels, not just of basketball, or in America, but in the history of Western Civilization!
A decadent civilization compromises with its disease, cherishes the virus infecting it, loses its self-respect.
The biggest farce of man's history has been the argument that wars are fought to save civilization.
The more rapidly a civilization progresses, the sooner it dies for another to rise in its place.
Civilization is a social plague on the planet, and vices are just as necessary to it as is a virus to disease.
Our language, history, and civilization shine out across every continent.
The city has become a serious menace to our civilization... It has a peculiar attraction for the immigrant.
Are some free fonts a gift to humanity rather than a blight on typographic civilization ?
When tillage begins, other arts follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of human civilization.
I take "We, the People" seriously because I don't know how we build a civilization without reciprocity.
The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion.
Civilization had too many rules for me, so I did my best to rewrite them.
The whole idea of civilization as an understandable narrative is a bit nuts. It's the most problematic of delusions.
One mind awake can become stronger than a thousand zombies sleepwalking in a dying civilization.
There is no salvation for civilization, or even the human race, other than the creation of a world government.
Sedentary culture is the goal of civilization. It means the end of its lifespan and brings about its corruption.
For years, I referred to climate change as an 'existential' threat to human civilization, and called it a 'crisis.'
Beneficience removes evils, introduces the practice of virtue, and adds to general welfare and civilization.
Practical application is found by not looking for it, and one can say that the whole progress of civilization rests on that principle.
It is the beauty of women, and the fact that they are the focus, that they are sex objects in a positive sense, is the reason we have civilization.
Wilderness is the raw material out of which man has hammered the artifact called civilization.
As the publisher of the 'Tory,' I strive to defend the pillars of Western civilization against the distractions of diversity.
Civilization may progress, human nature will remain the same throughout all ages.
Our great civilization, here in America and across the civilized world has come upon a moment of reckoning.
People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization.
Without men, civilization would last until the oil needed changing.
Science?is so greatly opposed to history and tradition that it cannot be absorbed by our civilization.
One must not judge everyone in the world by his qualities as a soldier: otherwise we should have no civilization.
Our civilization has evolved through the continuous adjustment of society to the stimulus of new knowledge.
The law should be the point at which savagery ended because civilization stood in its path.
But the center can be a harmful place for one who has lived so long on the edge.... Normality is the Great Neurosis of civilization.
The cynic, a parasite of civilization, lives by denying it, for the very reason that he is convinced that it will not fail.
If you don't have manufactured items or anything we think of as 'civilization,' then you're living according to your species.
It has been estimated that one third of our Western civilization bears the mark of its Jewish ancestry.
Civilization is always in danger when those who have never learned to obey are given the right to command.
Civilization is nothing more than the effort to reduce the use of force to the last resort.
Art is the response of the living to life. It is therefore the record left behind by civilization.
Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty ones.
A modern and humane civilization must control conception or sink into barbaric cruelty to individuals.
No civilization has survived the ongoing destruction of its natural support systems. Nor will ours.
Seavilization will be better than civilization, and we have nearly half the world's surface to discover it.
