Top 1200 Civilization Quotes & Sayings - Page 8
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Last updated on December 12, 2024.
The instrument of expansion of Classical civilization was a social organization, slavery.
Modern civilization has no understanding of sacred matters. Everything is backwards.
Civilization in certain respects is as inadequate as it was a thousand years ago.
Libraries are the thin red line between civilization and barbarism.
As a student of history, I also know civilization's debt to Islam.
What man calls civilization always results in deserts.
One is a member of a country, a profession, a civilization, a religion. One is not just a man.
What we call wildness is a civilization other than our own.
If youth were not ignorant and timid, civilization would be impossible.
Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty, and dies with chaos.
With any new civilization... they have to have their own officers and police and governments and all that.
I think the theatre is as essential to civilization as safe, pure water.
Western civilization is a loaded gun pointed at the head of this planet.
The degree of a nation’s civilization can be seen in the way it treats its prisoners
Not much was really invented during the Renaissance, if you don't count modern civilization.
I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.
Comfort is the only thing our civilization can give us.
The world is ruled, and the destiny of civilization is established, by the human emotions.
The broken eggshell of a civilization which time has hatched and devoured.
Patriotism is an indispensable weapon in the defense of civilization against barbarism.
Learning and literature have a way of outlasting the civilization that made them.
Our civilization is shifting from science and technology to rhetoric and litigation.
If the Aborigine drafted an I.Q. test, all of Western civilization would presumably flunk it.
Please, never despise the translator. He's the mailman of human civilization.
In going to America one learns that poverty is not a necessary accompaniment to civilization.
Civilization degrades many in order to exalt the few.
There is nothing that sets a nation back as far in civilization as prosperity.
The moral development of a civilization is measured by the breadth of its sense of community.
If any civilization is to survive, it is the morality of altruism that men have to reject.
Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men.
To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization.
Our entire civilization is built on a foundation of unfixable bullshit.
How a society treats its disabled is the true measure of a civilization.
Every murder strikes at the heart of civilization; it is an attack on all mankind.
I think the material that inspires artists is the fabric of the soul of civilization.
Art is like a border of flowers along the course of civilization.
The Indians are a civilization wrought with culture and a beautiful, deep spirituality.
Give me a Wildness whose glance no civilization can endure.
What does civilization mean to you, and what would its ending bring to the world?
Our assignment was to topple this prudish, judgmental civilization. And it worked.
The imagination is the secret and marrow of civilization. It is the very eye of faith.
Woman will ignore precedent and startle civilization with their progress.
Civilization, after all, is defined by what we forbid, more than what we permit.
The inventor tries to meet the demand of a crazy civilization.
Health is the fastest growing failing business in western civilization.
Godlessness invariably produces vulgarity. Civilization is the product of belief.
Is a planetary surface the right place for an expanding technological civilization?
No healthy civilization can ever be reared on a foundation of devitalized work.
The universal regard for money is the one hopeful fact in our civilization.
The acceptance of homosexuality is the last step in the decline of Gentile civilization.
Every high civilization decays by forgetting obvious things.
For you will sorely miss civilization if it is sacrificed in the turbulence of change.
Civilization is a failure. We need to think what we can do together in love and peace.
The true pioneer of civilization is not the newspaper, not religion, not the railroad - but whiskey!
The freedom of speech is an important yardstick for a society's level of civilization.
The history of our civilization has been one of intermittent war.
A civilization is built on what is required of men, not on that which is provided for them.
Civilization is a hopeless race to discover remedies for the evils it produces.
My play is the ultimate expression of my feeling of the twilight of Western civilization.
Hatred of domestic work is a natural and admirable result of civilization.
