Top 1200 Civilization Quotes & Sayings - Page 19
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Last updated on December 4, 2024.
I consider that there are different degrees of civilization and there are many different ways of expressing it. But one is civilized or is not.
The worth of a civilization or a culture is not valued in the terms of its material wealth or military power, but by the quality and achievements of its representative individuals - its philosophers, its poets and its artists.
We're not on a sustainable path in civilization. We're on an exponential growth curve, on which we perhaps always have been, but it has turned up sharply at the beginning of the 20th century.
The spiritual sense of our place in nature... can be traced to the origins of human civilization... The last vestige of organized goddess worship was eliminated by Christianity.
I am interested in climate change and other topics too. But this thing is so huge, in the worst case we are talking about the end of our civilization.
It is Hell, of course, that makes priests powerful, not Heaven, for after thousands of years of so-called civilization fear remains the one common denominator of mankind
The only true hope for civilization-the conviction of the individual that his inner life can affect outward events and that, whether or not he does so he is responsible for them.
The reason renewables can't power modern civilization is because they were never meant to. One interesting question is why anybody ever thought they could.
The last struggle for our rights, the battle for our civilization, is entirely with ourselves.
The people of Egypt are an intelligent people with a glorious history who left their mark on civilization.
Civilization rests on the fact that most people do the right thing most of the time.
Were civilization itself to be estimated by some of its results, it would seem perhaps better for what we call the barbarous part of the world to remain unchanged.
Human rights is a universal standard. It is a component of every religion and every civilization.
The city is the nerve center of our civilization. It is also the storm center.
The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.
Civilization must stand up and combat the current collapse of governance, the rise of violence, and the spread of chaos and fear in many parts of the world.
If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.
All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution.
Surely the only sound foundation for a civilization is a sound state of mind.
I see in the rising crescendo of ethnic tensions, civilization clashes and the use of religious justification for acts of terror, a clear and present danger to humanity.
I think that an advanced planetary civilization will modify their own planets to be more stable, to prevent asteroid impacts and dangerous climate fluctuations.
One difference between savagery and civilization is a little courtesy. There's no telling what a lot of courtesy would do.
There are few substance to which it yields interest, when it is considered how very intimately the knowledge and properties and uses of iron is connected with human civilization.
I used to play a lot of 'Civilization Revolution.' It's a strategy game that takes six to eight hours. You literally have to block off a full Sunday.
There has always been enough fossil fuels to power human civilization for hundreds and perhaps thousands of years, and nuclear energy is effectively infinite.
It's a weird curse, when you think about it. We're built for thought, and civilization, more than any other creature we've found. And all we really want to be is killers.
In this respect, the history of science, like the history of all civilization, has gone through cycles.
What then is the intellectual advantage of civilization over primitive savagery? It is not necessarily that each civilized man has more knowledge but that he requires far less.
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.
Artists are a free society's greatest advocates and its best bulwarks. Their triumphs are civilization's triumphs.
The bookshelf, like the book, has become an integral part of civilization as we know it, its presence in a home practically defining what it means to be civilized, educated, and refined.
Government has never increased the standard of living of one single human being in civilization's history. For some reason that simple truth has evaded everybody.
If the battle for civilization comes down to the wimps versus the barbarians, the barbarians are going to win.
Colonialism subdues in many dulcet guises. It conquered under the pretext of spreading Christianity, civilization, law and order, to make the world safe for democracy.
Before language, cavemen simply grunted, and then they used the club. Communication changed that. It's the mechanism that created civilization and prevents its own destruction.
To the brains of our predecessors we owe all of our inheritance of civilization and culture.
Practical dreamers have always been and always will be the pattern-makers of civilization.
Tutankhamun was not black, and the portrayal of ancient Egyptian civilization as black has no element of truth to it.
Nations, like individuals, live and die; but civilization cannot die.
A warming of this magnitude would risk the end of civilization as we know it by the end of this century.
Civilization involves subjection of force to reason, and the agency of this subjection is law.
Civilization is the art of living in towns of such size the everyone does not know everyone else.
If civilization has risen from the Stone Age, it can rise again from the Wastepaper Age.
Further march of civilization seems to employ increasing domination of man over beast, together with a growingly humane method of using them.
If we cannot come together to pause, to respect our dead and the heroic lives of meaning they led, then ours is truly a civilization lost.
When the French nation gradually came into existence among the ruins of the Roman civilization in Gaul, a new language was at the same time slowly evolved.
For four hundred years European civilization has dominated the world - for better or for worse. It is convenient, and flattering, for Americans to assume that this is all over; but it very rash to do so.
The sum total of each man's giving determines the standard of man's civilization.
Air power may either end war or end civilization.
Muslims stand by their religion entirely. It is a sort of religious absolutism. While Europeans have stopped defending the values of their civilization. They confuse tolerance with relativism.
The sickness of the individual is ultimately caused by and sustained by the sickness of his civilization
No civilization on the brink of collapse has ever changed fast enough to avert collapse.
The West will continue to conquer peoples, even if it means a confrontation with another civilization, Islam, firmly entrenched where it was 1,400 years ago.
The greatest threat to mankind and civilization is the spread of the totalitarian philosophy. Its best ally is not the devotion of its followers but the confusion of its enemies. To fight it, we must understand it.
What do I think of Western civilization? I think it would be a very good idea.
Organized charity itself is. . . the surest sign that our civilization has bred, is breeding and is perpetuating constantly increasing numbers of defectives, delinquents and dependents
Discussions of Western civilization are too often confined to works of high art that reflect a relatively narrow element of public taste and experience.
We are not only a civilization of amateur photographers; we are amateur curators, editors, and publishers.
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.
Zoo is an artificial territory, an approximation. Civilization is our natural territory.
