Top 1200 Human Civilization Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

There is something even more valuable to civilization than wisdom, and that is character.

You will find liberals always rooting for savages against civilization.

What can we expect from nations still less advanced in civilization than the Greeks?

When a civilization, a race, a people, a society, when they lack love, they are soon destroyed.

Civilization is a disease produced by the practice of building societies with rotten material.

Rights don't come from human documents. The very idea is only worthy of contempt. Human documents are nothing but pieces of paper, they are nothing but words--until by will, and conscience, and courage, and commitment, human beings turn them into reality.

Civilization’s shortening attention span is mismatched with the pace of environmental problems.

The history of civilization could actually be written in terms of the level of its women.

ISIL is more threatening to the Muslim world than it is to western civilization.

If there is one beast in all the loathsome fauna of civilization I hate and despise it is a man of the world.

Arts are a luxury, proof that a civilization has risen above 'politics and war.'

I don't care two hoots about civilization. I want to wander in the wild.

A man doesn't save a century, or a civilization, but a militant party wedded to a principle can.

Poetry is the elder sister of history, the mother of language, the ancestress of civilization.

The sense of a long last night over civilization is back again.

America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.

It is impossible to overlook the extent to which civilization is built upon a renunciation of instinct.

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 separation of sex from emotion is at the very foundations of Western culture and civilization.

Terrorism is a horrible thing that is the great threat to civilization on our planet.

There is no salvation for us but to adopt Civilization and lift ourselves down to its level.

I don't believe civilization can do a lot more than educate a person's senses.

If men do not now succeed in abolishing war, civilization and mankind are doomed.

That's one of the things that I'm going to talk about, is the need for the Human Rights Council to actually deal with human rights. We've got countries on the Human Rights Council right now like Venezuela and Cuba.

I think that as human beings, we quite naturally take for granted what is similar among human beings and, then, pay attention to what differentiates us. That makes perfect sense for us as human beings.

Where the myth fails, human love begins. Then we love a human being, not our dream, but a human being with flaws.

The gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature, and poetry, and all that is spiritual.

Fight to preserve these traits of civilization, that made us go forward.

To speak...means above all to assume a culture, to support the weight of a civilization.

Civilization is the distance man has placed between himself and his excreta.

No civilization, no matter how mighty it may appear to itself, is indestructible.

The measure of civilization in a people is to be found in its just appreciation of the wrongfulness of war.

A hermit is simply a person to whom civilization has failed to adjust itself.

Coal is the single greatest threat to civilization and all life on our planet.

The Christian theory of the sacredness of the Bible has been at the cost of the world's civilization.

My songs are a mix of my own weird raised-by-wolves perspective and civilization.

The next war... may well bury Western civilization forever.

Civilization survives on the constant discovery of amity and an equal supply of damnation.

A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within.

Break the skin of civilization and you find the ape, roaring and red-handed.

Free speech is not just another value. It's the foundation of Western civilization.

Civilization - a heap of rubble scavenged by scrawny English Lit. vultures.

Civilization as we know it today would be in jeopardy if the Republicans win the Senate.

To accept the fact that, after fertilization has taken place, a new human has come into being is no longer a matter of taste or opinion. The human nature of the human being from conception to old age is not a metaphysical conception. It is plain experimental evidence.

Human love, human trust, are always perilous, because they break down. The greater the love, the greater the trust, and the greater the peril, the greater the disaster. Because to place absolute trust on another human being is in itself a disaster, both ways, since each human being is a ship that must sail its own course, even if it go in company with another ship.... And yet, love is the greatest thing between human beings.

Hard labour to succeed in the world? Hard labour no, no, human constitution, human physiology, human intelligence is made of infinite creative potential of Natural Law and therefore no-one has to work hard for success.

Machinery is the chief symbol of modern civilization; it represents a great sin.

Truth and trust are the means by which civilization holds off barbarism.

Illusions mistaken for truth are the pavement under our feet. They are what we call civilization.

What’s looming in the shadows of our ignorance and denial is a critique of civilization itself.

You know, our sense of individuality is just the number one target of civilization.

Civilization is the art of living together with people not entirely like oneself.

I think it's motivating and exalting when we defend ideas that are at the foundation of western civilization.

You can tell a lot about a civilization by the quality of the people found in its jails.

Hackers are seen as shadowy figures with superhuman powers that threaten civilization.

Education to perfect gentlemanship, to human excellence, liberal education consists in reminding oneself of human excellence, of human greatness.

Civilization itself . . . can easily be swept aside when mob passions are aroused.

The disease of mutual distrust among nations is the bane of modern civilization.

We are not on the way to greater individualism, but are becoming an increasingly manipulated mass civilization.

No country can reach a high stage of civilization without a leisure class.