Top 1200 Civilization Quotes & Sayings - Page 9
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Last updated on December 12, 2024.
The Christian theory of the sacredness of the Bible has been at the cost of the world's civilization.
If civilization is to survive, it must live on the interest, not the capital, of nature.
We veneer civilization by doing unkind things in a kind way.
Illusions mistaken for truth are the pavement under our feet. They are what we call civilization.
Literature, art, like civilization itself, are only accidents.
Disinterested intellectual curiosity is the life blood of real civilization.
I don't believe civilization can do a lot more than educate a person's senses.
Civilization does not have to perish. The brutes are winning only by default.
Fight to preserve these traits of civilization, that made us go forward.
Civilization is the art of living together with people not entirely like oneself.
There's never been a civilization that has rewritten what marriage and family means and survived.
Each succeeding civilization forgets its predecessor. Civilizations are ghouls.
Civilization’s shortening attention span is mismatched with the pace of environmental problems.
You will find liberals always rooting for savages against civilization.
You know, our sense of individuality is just the number one target of civilization.
Civilization is going down the drain, and the sooner it does, the better.
Truth and trust are the means by which civilization holds off barbarism.
The disease of mutual distrust among nations is the bane of modern civilization
Liberty is a luxury of security; the free individual is a product and a mark of civilization.
The real index of civilization is when people are kinder than they need to be.
Coal is the single greatest threat to civilization and all life on our planet.
What’s looming in the shadows of our ignorance and denial is a critique of civilization itself.
From the first day to this, sheer greed was the driving spirit of civilization.
Civilization has developed executive powers far beyond its understanding.
Peace on earth would mean the end of civilization as we know it.
Emancipation is the demand of civilization. That is a principle; everything else is an intrigue.
Traditional marriage in the platform is the essential building block to our civilization.
The test of the moral quality of a civilization is its treatment of the weak and powerless.
The decline and fall of a civilization is barely noticed by most of its citizens.
Civilization is a disease produced by the practice of building societies with rotten material.
They do not understand the fragility of civilization and the constant nearness of savage nature.
Artists are the gate keepers of truth. We are civilization’s radical voice.
The separation of sex from emotion is at the very foundations of Western culture and civilization.
A lot of people thought of me as a threat to Western civilization.
But that's just the aim of civilization - to make everything a source of enjoyment.
Every civilization finds it necessary to negotiate compromises with its own values.
In essence the Renaissance was simply the green end of one of civilization's hardest winters.
ISIL is more threatening to the Muslim world than it is to western civilization.
The next war... may well bury Western civilization forever.
You can tell a lot about a civilization by the quality of the people found in its jails.
Artists are the gatekeepers of truth. We are civilization’s anchor. We are the compass for humanity’s conscience.
A man doesn't save a century, or a civilization, but a militant party wedded to a principle can.
The earth is a fickle place for all life, not least the human project of civilization.
It's just a show. It's not the end of Western Civilization. It's chewing gum.
Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos.
Reject the basic assumptions of civilization, especially the importance of material possessions.
When a civilization, a race, a people, a society, when they lack love, they are soon destroyed.
To speak...means above all to assume a culture, to support the weight of a civilization.
I think the first prerequisite to civilization is an ability to make polite conversation.
The truest test of civilization, culture and dignity is character and not clothing.
There is no salvation for us but to adopt Civilization and lift ourselves down to its level.
Tolerance is held to be a condition of mind which is encouraged by, and is necessary for, civilization.
The test of civilization is the power of drawing the most benefit out of cities.
I hate paying taxes. But I love the civilization they give me
A hermit is simply a person to whom civilization has failed to adjust itself.
It would be wonderful if I could see the end of civilization during my lifetime.
A civilization based on nonviolence must be different from that organized for violence.
The sense of a long last night over civilization is back again.
Sunday is the core of our civilization, dedicated to thought and reverence.
I don't care two hoots about civilization. I want to wander in the wild.
