Top 1200 Human Civilization Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

The city has become a serious menace to our civilization... It has a peculiar attraction for the immigrant.

Civilization is that mode of conduct which points out to man the path of duty.

The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.

Present-Day Wickedness, Apostasy and Modern Civilization Cannot Prevent Revival.

Work is not a curse; it is the prerogative of intelligence, the only means to manhood, and the measure of civilization.

Civilization is like a thin layer of ice upon a deep ocean of chaos and darkness.

It seems to me, Golan, that the advance of civilization is nothing but an exercise in the limiting of privacy.

First there was Greek civilization. Then there was the Renaissance. Now we’re entering the Age of the Ass.

Marriage is the basic building block of civilization. We are redefining it at our own peril.

He who writes well runs the civilization. Everyone else does the grunt work.

To those acting against peace, civilization and the world order: We will oppose you.

Deception is a developed art of civilization and the most potent weapon in the game of power

Without men, civilization would last until the oil needed changing.

In the cycle of a great civilization, the artist begins as priest, and ends as a clown or buffoon.

Despite all the progress of civilization, women have remained exactly as they emerged from the hand of Nature.

The destiny of world civilization depends upon providing a decent standard of living for all mankind.

Christianity and Western civilization-what countless crimes have been committed in thy name!

The more rapidly a civilization progresses, the sooner it dies for another to rise in its place.

It cannot be emphasized too strongly that Christianity has a vested interest in human misery. Christianity, perhaps more than any religion before or since, capitalized on human suffering; and it was enormously successful in insuring its own existence through the perpetuation of human suffering.

The danger of civilization, of course, is that you will piss away your life on nonsense.

Our language, history, and civilization shine out across every continent.

The New Testament is a brutal destroyer of human illusions. If you follow Jesus and don't end up dead, it appears you have some explaining to do. The stark signifier of the human condition is one who spoke up for love and justice and was done to death for his pains. The traumatic truth of human history is a mutilated body.

Imagine what things would be like if the news media actually sided with civilization.

We will never have true civilization until we have learned to recognize the rights of others.

To be complex does not mean to be fragmented. This is the paradox and the genius of our Canadian civilization.

When civilization stands at the edge of a cliff, a step forward doesn't make much sense.

In the advance of civilization, it is new knowledge which paves the way, and the pavement is eternal.

You cannot build nonviolence on a factory civilization, but it can be built on self-contained villages.

The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded upon the spirituality of work.

For many years as a foreign correspondent, I not only worked alongside human rights advocates, but considered myself one of them. To defend the rights of those who have none was the reason I became a journalist in the first place. Now, I see the human rights movement as opposing human rights.

India is a civilization where the principle and philosophy of sacrifice is ingrained as part of our upbringing.

In America there is not one single element of civilization that is not made to depend, in the end, upon public opinion.

Is it, perhaps, possible that there are two kinds of Civilization-one for home consumption and one for the heathen market?

Style is about the choices you make to create the aspects of civilization that you wish to uphold.

I think God's going to come down and pull civilization over for speeding.

New York... when civilization falls apart, remember, we were way ahead of you.

Man's great power of thinking, remembering, and communicating are responsible for the evolution of civilization.

The luxuries of civilization satisfy only those wants which they themselves create.

Death has always been the first sign of European civilization when introduced in the Pacific.

Teachers must be celebrated for moving civilization from ignorance to enlightenment, from apathy to responsibility.

Modern civilization is a product of an energy binge. Binges often end in hangovers.

One of the things that I tell beginning writers is this: If you describe a landscape, or a cityscape, or a seascape, always be sure to put a human figure somewhere in the scene. Why? Because readers are human beings, mostly interested in human beings. People are humanists. Most of them are humanists, that is.

Civilization is nothing else but the attempt to reduce force to being the last resort.

In a world flagrant with the failures of civilization, what is there particularly immortal about our own?

Civilization must be destroyed. The hairy saints of the North have earned this crumb by their complaints.

Whatever fosters the growth of civilization works at the same time against war.

Public transportation is like a magnifying glass that shows you civilization up close.

Trout plus bacon is one of civilization's greatest formulas; it always equals pleasure.

We can dream of an America, and a world, in which love and not money are civilization's bottom line.

Fortunately, at the last hour, there were always a few soldiers to save Civilization.

Civilization, like an airplane in flight, survives only as it keeps going forward.

We live in what may be the most anti-intellectual period in the history of Western civilization.

The philosopher cannot seriously put to himself questions that his civilization has not lived.

The seeds of civilization are in every culture, but it is city life that brings them to fruition.

Everything in modern civilization is based on this concept of time which is not really valid.

The Industrial Revolution was another of those extraordinary jumps forward in the story of civilization.

If the Negro is not careful he will drink in all the poison of modern civilization and die from the effects of it.

Each civilization has its own kind of pestilence and can control it only by reforming itself.

Science?is so greatly opposed to history and tradition that it cannot be absorbed by our civilization.

Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.