Quotes about Civilization

Civilization is the limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities. Votes: 5

Civilization is the lamb's skin in which barbarism masquerades. Votes: 5

Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor. Votes: 5

Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock. Votes: 5

Civilization is the art of creating useless needs. Votes: 4

Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. Votes: 4

Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos Votes: 4

Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos. Votes: 4

Civilization is a hopeless race to discover remedies for the evils it produces. Votes: 4

America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. Votes: 4

We will never have true civilization until we have learned to recognize the rights of others. Votes: 4

A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan. Votes: 4

The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization. Votes: 4

Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work. Votes: 4

A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values. Votes: 4

The greatest advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science and literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government. Votes: 4

If there hadn't been women we'd still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends. Votes: 4

I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two-thirds of the people of the earth will be killed. Votes: 4

If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships - the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world at peace. Votes: 4

Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men. Votes: 4

Civilization is paralysis. Votes: 3

Civilization is sterilization. Votes: 3

Civilization begins with distillation Votes: 3

Civilization impairs physical fitness. Votes: 3

Civilization depends on morality. Votes: 3

Civilization is vastly overrated. Votes: 3

Civilization can never be sustainable. Votes: 3

Civilization is a perishable commodity. Votes: 3

Civilization is only savagery silver-gilt. Votes: 3

Civilization has always been a bust. Votes: 3

Civilization and violence are antithetical concepts. Votes: 3

Civilization is the encouragement of differences. Votes: 3

Education is the transmission of civilization. Votes: 3

Civilization is what makes you sick. Votes: 3

Civilization is a work of peaceful co-operation. Votes: 3

Civilization creates discontents; barbarism creates quick endings. Votes: 3

In Western Civilization, our elders are books. Votes: 3

Without adventure civilization is in full decay. Votes: 3

Civilization is the making of civil persons. Votes: 3

Civilization and profit go hand in hand. Votes: 3

Civilization has its roots in the soil. Votes: 3

Civilization... wrecks the planet from seafloor to stratosphere. Votes: 3

Civilization is an enormous device for economizing knowledge,. Votes: 3

The moon invented natural rhythm. Civilization uninvented it. Votes: 3

Civilization is the intelligent management of human emotions. Votes: 3

Civilization is over-rated, but there isn't much else. Votes: 3

Civilization in its present form hasn't got long. Votes: 3

Civilization is now under the tyranny of relativism. Votes: 3

Civilization is coming to an end, you understand. Votes: 3

Civilization degrades the many to exalt the few. Votes: 3

Civilization is a product of the cerebral cortex. Votes: 3

Civilization is not and can never be sustainable. Votes: 3

Civilization is the world with its leg asleep. Votes: 3

Civilization itself is housed in the human being. Votes: 3

Civilization is only a series of victories against nature. Votes: 3

Civilization originates in conquest abroad and repression at home. Votes: 3

Present-Day Wickedness, Apostasy and Modern Civilization Cannot Prevent Revival. Votes: 3

Civilization has developed executive powers far beyond its understanding. Votes: 3

Civilization is not a burden. It is an opportunity. Votes: 3

Civilization is an enormous improvement on the lack thereof. Votes: 3

Civilization degrades many in order to exalt the few. Votes: 3

Civilization is being poisoned by its own waste products. Votes: 3

Civilization is the process of setting man free from men. Votes: 3

Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity. Votes: 3

Civilization consists in the multiplication and refinement of human wants. Votes: 3

Godlessness invariably produces vulgarity. Civilization is the product of belief. Votes: 3

Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice. Votes: 3

Civilization is a network and a maze of precedences and custom. Votes: 3

Civilization is the process of reducing the infinite to the finite. Votes: 3

Civilization never recedes; the law of necessity ever forces it onwards. Votes: 3

Civilization is unbearable, but it is less unbearable at the top. Votes: 3

Civilization itself . . . can easily be swept aside when mob passions are aroused. Votes: 3

Zoo is an artificial territory, an approximation. Civilization is our natural territory. Votes: 3

Civilization may progress, human nature will remain the same throughout all ages. Votes: 3

Civilization's shortening attention span is mismatched with the pace of environmental problems. Votes: 3

Civilization - a heap of rubble scavenged by scrawny English Lit. vultures. Votes: 3

Civilization is the distance man has placed between himself and his excreta. Votes: 3

Civilization may be said indeed to be the creation of its outlaws. Votes: 3

Civilization does not have to perish. The brutes are winning only by default. Votes: 3

Civilization changes man on the outside. Meditation softens him within, through and through. Votes: 3

Every advance in civilization has been denounced as unnatural while it was recent Votes: 3

Civilization, like an airplane in flight, survives only as it keeps going forward. Votes: 3

Civilization is the art of living together with people not entirely like oneself. Votes: 3

Civilization survives on the constant discovery of amity and an equal supply of damnation. Votes: 3

Civilization is a disease produced by the practice of building societies with rotten material. Votes: 3

Fortunately, at the last hour, there were always a few soldiers to save Civilization. Votes: 3

Civilization is the way one's own people live. Savagery is the way foreigners live. Votes: 3

Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men. Votes: 3

Civilization in certain respects is as inadequate as it was a thousand years ago. Votes: 3

Civilization, after all, is defined by what we forbid, more than what we permit. Votes: 3

It's just a show. It's not the end of Western Civilization. It's chewing gum. Votes: 3

Civilization had too many rules for me, so I did my best to rewrite them. Votes: 3

Civilization is nothing else but the attempt to reduce force to being the last resort. Votes: 3

Civilization means conforming to a standard of behavior that may not seem natural to us. Votes: 3

Civilization involves subjection of force to reason, and the agency of this subjection is law. Votes: 3

Civilization is that mode of conduct which points out to man the path of duty. Votes: 3

The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization. Votes: 3

Civilization does everything for the mind and favors it entirely at the expense of the body. Votes: 3

Civilization will reach maturity only when it learns to value diversity of character and of ideas. Votes: 3

Civilization is like a thin layer of ice upon a deep ocean of chaos and darkness. Votes: 3

If civilization had been left in female hands we would still be living in grass huts. Votes: 3

Civilization as we know it today would be in jeopardy if the Republicans win the Senate. Votes: 3

The test of a civilization is in the way that it cares for its helpless members Votes: 3

There is no salvation for us but to adopt Civilization and lift ourselves down to its level. Votes: 3

Civilization is nothing more than the effort to reduce the use of force to the last resort. Votes: 3

Civilization is a failure. We need to think what we can do together in love and peace. Votes: 3

Civilization is the art of living in towns of such size the everyone does not know everyone else. Votes: 3

Civilization did not come with fire. It came with the discovery of how to use fire to heat water. Votes: 3

To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization. Votes: 3

Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing. Votes: 3

It is not possible for civilization to flow backwards while there is youth in the world. Youth may be headstrong, but it will advance it allotted length. Votes: 3

Civilization is a disease which is almost invariably fatal. Votes: 2

Civilization rests on the fact that most people do the right thing most of the time. Votes: 2

We will create a civilization of the Mind in Cyberspace. May it be more humane and fair than the world your governments have made before. Votes: 2

Speech is civilization itself. Votes: 1

When humor goes, there goes civilization. Votes: 1

There is nothing more fragile than civilization. Votes: 1

Saving civilization is not a spectator sport. Votes: 1

The family is the nucleus of civilization. Votes: 1

Every high civilization decays by forgetting obvious things. Votes: 1

I think governments are the cancer of civilization. Votes: 1

A pioneer destroys things and calls it civilization. Votes: 1

Christianity is the enemy of liberty and civilization. Votes: 1

Heterosexual marriage is the heart of our civilization. Votes: 1

The path of civilization is paved with tin cans. Votes: 1

Every civilization that has ever existed has ultimately collapsed. Votes: 1

China is a civilization pretending to be a nation. Votes: 1

A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization Votes: 1

When a civilization takes up the study of itself, it is always high noon Votes: 1

One of the tests of the civilization of people is the treatment of its criminals. Votes: 1

The true pioneer of civilization is not the newspaper, not religion, not the railroad--but whiskey! Votes: 1

When tillage begins, other arts follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of human civilization. Votes: 1

The Industrial Revolution was another of those extraordinary jumps forward in the story of civilization. Votes: 1

All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution. Votes: 1

Without memory, there is no culture. Without memory, there would be no civilization, no society, no future. Votes: 1

Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. Votes: 1

Good God, if our civilization were to sober up for a couple of days it'd die of remorse on the third. Votes: 1

I think it quite likely that we are the only civilization within several hundred light years; otherwise we would have heard radio waves. Votes: 1

Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization. Votes: 1

Rome is the one great spiritual organization which is able to resist and must, as a matter of life and death, the progress of science and modern civilization Votes: 1

The boundary between civilization and barbarism is difficult to draw put one ring in your nose and you are a savage, put two rings in your ears and you are civilized Votes: 1

Modern technology has become a total phenomenon for civilization, the defining force of a new social order in which efficiency is no longer an option but a necessity imposed on all human activity. Votes: 1

Where a great proportion of the people are suffered to languish in helpless misery, that country must be ill policed, and wretchedly governed a decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization Votes: 1

I have to bring to your notice a terrifying reality: with the development of nuclear weapons Man has acquired, for the first time in history, the technical means to destroy the whole of civilization in a single act. Votes: 1

Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for education... no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both. Votes: 1

The beginning of civilization is marked by an intense legality that legality is the very condition of its existence, the bond which ties it together but that legality - that tendency to impose a settled customary yoke upon all men and all actions Votes: 1

We must not try to force him to take civilization immediately in its complete form, but under just laws, guaranteeing to Indians equal civil laws, the Indian question, a source of such dishonor to our country and of shame to true patriots, will soon be a thing of the past. Votes: 1

Agriculture is not crop production as popular belief holds - it's the production of food and fiber from the world's land and waters. Without agriculture it is not possible to have a city, stock market, banks, university, church or army. Agriculture is the foundation of civilization and any stable economy. Votes: 1

Fermentation equals civilization. Votes: 0

Fermentation and civilization are inseparable. Votes: 0

Handwriting is civilization's casual encephalogram. Votes: 0

civilization is a transient sickness. Votes: 0

Horses have made civilization possible. Votes: 0

Survival must come before civilization. Votes: 0

Revolution is the larva of civilization. Votes: 0

Education is the transmission of civilization. Votes: 0

You can't leave civilization behind entirely. Votes: 0

Our civilization depends largely on paper. Votes: 0

Today's children will become tomorrow's civilization. Votes: 0

Prejudices are the props of civilization. Votes: 0

When humor go's, there go's civilization. Votes: 0

Cities are the crucible of civilization. Votes: 0

The English think soap is civilization. Votes: 0

As women go, so goes civilization. Votes: 0

I think women can save civilization. Votes: 0

sharing is the secret of civilization. Votes: 0

Historical capitalism is a materialist civilization. Votes: 0

Man, not the earth, makes civilization. Votes: 0

George Bush doesn't represent any civilization! Votes: 0

Simplicity is the peak of civilization. Votes: 0

Everything our civilization has produced is entombed. Votes: 0

Specialization is the great evil of civilization. Votes: 0

Without winners, there would be no civilization. Votes: 0

Normality is the Great Neurosis of civilization. Votes: 0

Barbarism recommences by the excess of civilization. Votes: 0

The price of civilization is instinctual renunciation. Votes: 0

Architecture belongs to culture, not to civilization. Votes: 0

Without fathers you would have no civilization. Votes: 0

The foundation of all civilization is loitering. Votes: 0

Intelligent discontent is the mainspring of civilization. Votes: 0

Without the library, you have no civilization. Votes: 0

The farmers are the founders of civilization. Votes: 0

The slum is the measure of civilization. Votes: 0

The slum is the measure of civilization. Votes: 0

To serve Armenia is to serve civilization. Votes: 0

War is a specific product of civilization. Votes: 0

Unshined shoes are the end of civilization. Votes: 0

Artists are the radical voice of civilization. Votes: 0

As civilization advances, poetry almost necessarily declines. Votes: 0

As civilization advances, poetry almost necessarily declines. Votes: 0

Liberty built civilization. It can rebuild civilization. Votes: 0

What man calls civilization always results in deserts. Votes: 0

The ultimate tendency of civilization is towards barbarism. Votes: 0

If education is beaten by training, civilization dies. Votes: 0

There were centuries when civilization had no theater. Votes: 0

Literature, art, like civilization itself, are only accidents. Votes: 0

Marriage is the beginning and pinnacle of civilization. Votes: 0

It's very difficult to marry into another civilization. Votes: 0

Christianity is the enemy of liberty and civilization Votes: 0

The resources of civilization are not yet exhausted. Votes: 0

Fragmentation occurs when a civilization is in decline. Votes: 0

Hospitals are only an intermediate stage of civilization Votes: 0

The salt of any interesting civilization is mixture. Votes: 0

Wherever an altar is found, there civilization exists. Votes: 0

Sex-appeal is the keynote of our whole civilization. Votes: 0

Alone we are savages, together we are civilization Votes: 0

A civilization has the ethics it can afford Votes: 0

If the family goes, so goes our civilization. Votes: 0

Arcturus is the highest civilization in our galaxy, Votes: 0

Adoration is a sign of an infant civilization. Votes: 0

Sex appeal is the keynote of our civilization. Votes: 0

The ordinary man is the curse of civilization. Votes: 0

A civilization is always judged in its decline. Votes: 0

A civilization is born Stoic and dies Epicurean. Votes: 0

Tolerance is the only real test of civilization. Votes: 0

Politics is the art of making civilization work. Votes: 0

If civilization has an opposite, it is war. Votes: 0

...the first sign of civilization is always trash. Votes: 0

Real freedom lies in wildness, not in civilization. Votes: 0

A republic may be called the climate of civilization. Votes: 0

Scopes isn’t on trial; civilization is on trial. Votes: 0

Increasingly constructive doubt is the sign of advancing civilization. Votes: 0

In societies of low civilization, there is no money. Votes: 0

The slaves of developed industrial civilization are sublimated slaves. Votes: 0

The next war... may well bury Western civilization forever. Votes: 0

Respectability is the dickey on the bosom of civilization. Votes: 0

Cities are the least permanent things in our civilization. Votes: 0

Every monument of civilization is a monument of barbarism Votes: 0

Universities are meant to pass the torch of civilization. Votes: 0

A nation of spaghetti eaters cannot restore Roman civilization! Votes: 0

Each divorce is the death of a small civilization. Votes: 0

We made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends. Votes: 0

Fertility of the soil is the future of civilization. Votes: 0

Really advanced civilization is based on advances in energy. Votes: 0

The sentence is the greatest human invention of civilization. Votes: 0

Poets are the leaven in the lump of civilization. Votes: 0

China is a civilization pretending to be a nation. Votes: 0

The perfect normal person is rare in our civilization. Votes: 0

A civilization that denies death ends by denying life. Votes: 0

The test of civilization is its estimate of women. Votes: 0

Air power may either end war or end civilization. Votes: 0

If there are no books. There is no civilization. Votes: 0

The test of civilization is the estimate of woman. Votes: 0

The first requisite of civilization is that of justice. Votes: 0

It's a difficult business, creating a new, alternative civilization. Votes: 0

Give me civilization. I don't want to be pampered. Votes: 0

When urbanity decays, civilization suffers and decays with it. Votes: 0

Knowledge is the key to the development of civilization. Votes: 0

God established the family as the foundation of civilization. Votes: 0

Libraries are the thin red line between civilization and barbarism. Votes: 0

Health is the fastest growing failing business in western civilization. Votes: 0

[On golf:] One of the most distressing defects of civilization. Votes: 0

The tendency of an advanced civilization is in truth monarchy. Votes: 0

Barbarians always think of themselves as the bringers of civilization. Votes: 0

You will find liberals always rooting for savages against civilization. Votes: 0

I believe empathy is the most essential quality of civilization. Votes: 0

War: A wretched debasement of all the pretenses of civilization. Votes: 0

This civilization is the impact of the world's consumption behavior. Votes: 0

The Net is the new underlying infrastructure for civilization itself. Votes: 0

The future of human liberty ... means the future of civilization. Votes: 0

To accept civilization as it is practically means accepting decay. Votes: 0

Christianity is the very root and foundation of Western civilization. Votes: 0

Arab civilization has collapsed. It won't recover in my lifetime. Votes: 0

I think human arrogance will be the demise of civilization. Votes: 0

Give me a Wildness whose glance no civilization can endure. Votes: 0

Disinterested intellectual curiosity is the life blood of real civilization. Votes: 0

The mere smell of cooking can evoke a whole civilization. Votes: 0

Women will ignore precedent and startle civilization with their progress. Votes: 0

Without men, civilization would last until the oil needed changing. Votes: 0

Oh, it is all folly, madness, a crime against civilization. Votes: 0

Comfort is the only thing our civilization can give us. Votes: 0

Today, human civilization is drowning in a sea of lies. Votes: 0

What is civilization? I answer, the power of good women. Votes: 0

Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime. Votes: 0

For me, politeness is a sine qua non of civilization. Votes: 0

A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed. Votes: 0

I like to pay taxes. With them, I buy civilization. Votes: 0

The inclination to aggression constitutes the greatest impediment to civilization. Votes: 0

You know when civilization began? With the invention of the mirror. Votes: 0

Modern civilization has no understanding of sacred matters. Everything is backwards. Votes: 0

If we are to preserve civilization, we must first remain civilized. Votes: 0

Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent. Votes: 0

Teachers are more than any other group the guardians of civilization. Votes: 0

The great achievements of civilization have not come from government bureaus. Votes: 0

Please, never despise the translator. He's the mailman of human civilization. Votes: 0

The glossy surface of our civilization hides a real intellectual decadence. Votes: 0

Every civilization depends upon the quality of the individuals it produces. Votes: 0

If youth were not ignorant and timid, civilization would be impossible. Votes: 0

Our entire civilization is built on a foundation of unfixable bullshit. Votes: 0

The quantity of civilization is measured by the quality of imagination. Votes: 0

Books are the carriers of civilization... .....Books are humanity in print. Votes: 0

In the West you have every opportunity for civilization to triumph. Votes: 0

My Swaraj is to keep intact the genius of our civilization. Votes: 0

for civilization to survive, the human race has to remain civilized Votes: 0

Labor is the fruit of civilization, not the basis of it. Votes: 0

The cradles of civilization are the putrid sinks of the world. Votes: 0

What we call wildness is a civilization other than our own. Votes: 0

Compassion isn't a sign of weakness, but a mark of civilization. Votes: 0

In the last analysis civilization is based upon the food supply. Votes: 0

Champagne is the wine of civilization and the oil of government. Votes: 0

We veneer civilization by doing unkind things in a kind way. Votes: 0

The inventor tries to meet the demand of a crazy civilization. Votes: 0

The history of our civilization has been one of intermittent war. Votes: 0

It is Love that will save our world and our civilization. Votes: 0

There is precious little in civilization to appeal to a yeti. Votes: 0

The civilization of one epoch becomes the manure of the next. Votes: 0

In the highest civilization the book is still the highest delight. Votes: 0

civilization is the very root cause of the woes of civilization Votes: 0

I hate paying taxes. But I love the civilization they give me Votes: 0

Sunday is the core of our civilization, dedicated to thought and reverence. Votes: 0

The luxuries of civilization satisfy only those wants which they themselves create. Votes: 0

Artists are the gate keepers of truth. We are civilization's radical voice. Votes: 0

[T]he progress of civilization corresponds with the spread of general nausea. Votes: 0

America's civilization perturbs the trajectories of all other civilizations just by existing. Votes: 0

Tea is one of the main stays of civilization in this country. Votes: 0

Hatred of domestic work is a natural and admirable result of civilization. Votes: 0

Christianity and Western civilization-what countless crimes have been committed in thy name! Votes: 0

Our civilization is flinging itself to pieces. Stand back from the centrifuge. Votes: 0

The instrument of expansion of Classical civilization was a social organization, slavery. Votes: 0

Patriotism is an indispensable weapon in the defense of civilization against barbarism. Votes: 0

A tablecloth restaurant is still one of the great rewards of civilization. Votes: 0

Patriotism is an indispensable weapon in the defense of civilization against barbarism. Votes: 0

Hackers are seen as shadowy figures with superhuman powers that threaten civilization. Votes: 0

When thought races ahead of Being, a civilization is racing towards destruction. Votes: 0

Had Greek civilization never existed ... we would never have become fully conscious. Votes: 0

Our civilization is shifting from science and technology to rhetoric and litigation. Votes: 0

War is a damnable, filthy thing and has destroyed civilization after civilization Votes: 0

The charms of seclusion are seldom combined with the conveniences of civilization. Votes: 0

Every civilization finds it necessary to negotiate compromises with its own values. Votes: 0

Our assignment was to topple this prudish, judgmental civilization. And it worked. Votes: 0

Can a civilization hold together if man abandons his faith in God? Votes: 0

Is a planetary surface the right place for an expanding technological civilization? Votes: 0

The broken eggshell of a civilization which time has hatched and devoured. Votes: 0

A civilization begins to decline the moment Life becomes its sole obsession. Votes: 0

Whatever fosters militarism makes for barbarism; whatever fosters peace makes for civilization. Votes: 0

Music has power to create a universe or to destroy a civilization. Votes: 0

As a student of history, I also know civilization's debt to Islam. Votes: 0

A new civilization was not to be improvised by a single mind. Votes: 0

The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself. Votes: 0

The physician...is the flower (such as it is) of our civilization. Votes: 0

You are an ignorant schoolgirl. You think civilization is a good thing. Votes: 0

Reject the basic assumptions of civilization, especially the importance of material possessions. Votes: 0

I remind everybody that the Sabbath was the Jewish gift to civilization. Votes: 0

There can be no high civilization where there is not ample leisure. Votes: 0

A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization. Votes: 0

The measure of progress of civilization is the progress of the people. Votes: 0

The sense of a long last night over civilization is back again. Votes: 0

You can't divorce civilization from nature - we totally depend on it. Votes: 0

... one can judge a civilization by the way its treats its women. Votes: 0

Art is like a border of flowers along the course of civilization. Votes: 0

Fight to preserve these traits of civilization, that made us go forward. Votes: 0

A civilization must be judged by its standards not by its expenditure. Votes: 0

Morocco as it is is a very fine place spoiled by civilization. Votes: 0

Truth and trust are the means by which civilization holds off barbarism. Votes: 0

It's the Law of God that gave the stability to Christian civilization. Votes: 0

The truest test of civilization, culture and dignity is character and not clothing. Votes: 0

Peace on earth would mean the end of civilization as we know it. Votes: 0

Learning and literature have a way of outlasting the civilization that made them. Votes: 0

The sum total of each man's giving determines the standard of man's civilization. Votes: 0

A civilization based on nonviolence must be different from that organized for violence. Votes: 0

No healthy civilization can ever be reared on a foundation of devitalized work. Votes: 0

Machinery is the chief symbol of modern civilization; it represents a great sin. Votes: 0

The disease of mutual distrust among nations is the bane of modern civilization Votes: 0

The disease of mutual distrust among nations is the bane of modern civilization. Votes: 0

Whatever fosters the growth of civilization works at the same time against war. Votes: 0

A lot of people thought of me as a threat to Western civilization. Votes: 0

As morality seems to have supplanted civilization, I move on to the spiritual. Votes: 0

Traditional marriage in the platform is the essential building block to our civilization. Votes: 0

Interlibrary loans are a wonder of the world and a glory of civilization. Votes: 0

We argue with our biology, and the result of that argument is civilization. Votes: 0

In the end, the character of a civilization is encased in its structures. Votes: 0

The universal regard for money is the one hopeful fact in our civilization. Votes: 0

I think God's going to come down and pull civilization over for speeding. Votes: 0

I think the theatre is as essential to civilization as safe, pure water. Votes: 0

He who writes well runs the civilization. Everyone else does the grunt work. Votes: 0

Today's interpretations of religion are often backward and contradict the needs of civilization. Votes: 0

Break the skin of civilization and you find the ape, roaring and red-handed. Votes: 0

You can best serve civilization by being against what usually passes for it. Votes: 0

Extremes produce reaction. Beware that our boasted civilization does not lapse into barbarism. Votes: 0

How a society treats its disabled is the true measure of a civilization. Votes: 0

Western civilization is a loaded gun pointed at the head of this planet. Votes: 0

No country can reach a high stage of civilization without a leisure class ... Votes: 0

No civilization other than that which is Christian, is worth seeking or possessing. Votes: 0

New York... when civilization falls apart, remember, we were way ahead of you. Votes: 0

Practical dreamers have always been and always will be the pattern-makers of civilization. Votes: 0

The first sign on a declining civilization is a decline in the arts. Votes: 0

No civilization, no matter how mighty it may appear to itself, is indestructible. Votes: 0

What can we expect from nations still less advanced in civilization than the Greeks? Votes: 0

The acceptance of homosexuality is the last step in the decline of Gentile civilization, Votes: 0

Imagine what things would be like if the news media actually sided with civilization. Votes: 0

The freedom of speech is an important yardstick for a society's level of civilization. Votes: 0

Social science affirms that a woman's place in society marks the level of civilization. Votes: 0

The taming and domestication of religion is one of the unceasing chores of civilization. Votes: 0

I think the first prerequisite to civilization is an ability to make polite conversation. Votes: 0

There is something even more valuable to civilization than wisdom, and that is character. Votes: 0

The worlds civilization started from the day on which everyone received reward for labour. Votes: 0

Not much was really invented during the Renaissance, if you don't count modern civilization. Votes: 0

When people have to choose between civilization and warm genitals, they choose warm genitals Votes: 0

The philosopher cannot seriously put to himself questions that his civilization has not lived. Votes: 0

From the beginning, this culture - civilization - has been a culture of occupation. Votes: 0

I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women. Votes: 0

Modern civilization is a product of an energy binge. Binges often end in hangovers. Votes: 0

A civilization which has taken over the world cannot be said to be dying. Votes: 0

All that is great in man comes through work; and civilization is its product. Votes: 0

The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons. Votes: 0

You know, our sense of individuality is just the number one target of civilization. Votes: 0

The Lincoln Memorial is related to the toga and the civilization that wore it. Votes: 0

There is no document of civilization that is not also a document of barbarism. Votes: 0

I don't believe civilization can do a lot more than educate a person's senses. Votes: 0

Coal is the single greatest threat to civilization and all life on our planet. Votes: 0

Surely the only sound foundation for a civilization is a sound state of mind. Votes: 0

There is nothing that sets a nation back as far in civilization as prosperity. Votes: 0

From the first day to this, sheer greed was the driving spirit of civilization. Votes: 0

A hermit is simply a person to whom civilization has failed to adjust itself. Votes: 0

Competition is the law of the jungle, but cooperation is the law of civilization Votes: 0

I don't care two hoots about civilization. I want to wander in the wild. Votes: 0

The soul of a civilization is its religion, and it dies with its faith. Votes: 0

If men do not now succeed in abolishing war, civilization and mankind are doomed. Votes: 0

To us it seems that West-European civilization is civilization, but this is a narrow view. Votes: 0

What does civilization mean to you, and what would its ending bring to the world? Votes: 0

Emancipation is the demand of civilization. That is a principle; everything else is an intrigue. Votes: 0

To me, the Holocaust stands alone as the most horrible human event in modern civilization. Votes: 0

People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization. Votes: 0

In going to America one learns that poverty is not a necessary accompaniment to civilization. Votes: 0

I have not changed my opinion that the Holocaust is a trauma of European civilization. Votes: 0

Are some free fonts a gift to humanity rather than a blight on typographic civilization ? Votes: 0

The world is ruled, and the destiny of civilization is established, by the human emotions. Votes: 0

It has been said that civilization is twenty-four hours and two meals away from barbarism. Votes: 0

The most frightful of all spectacles is the strength of the civilization without its mercy. Votes: 0

The best test of the quality of a civilization is the quality of its leisure. Votes: 0

A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within. Votes: 0

In essence the Renaissance was simply the green end of one of civilization's hardest winters. Votes: 0

Western civilization was declining too fast for comfort, but too slowly to be very exciting. Votes: 0

Every murder strikes at the heart of civilization; it is an attack on all mankind. Votes: 0

The city is the nerve center of our civilization. It is also the storm center. Votes: 0

But that's just the aim of civilization - to make everything a source of enjoyment. Votes: 0

The decline and fall of a civilization is barely noticed by most of its citizens. Votes: 0

My play is the ultimate expression of my feeling of the twilight of Western civilization. Votes: 0

Death has always been the first sign of European civilization when introduced in the Pacific. Votes: 0

For you will sorely miss civilization if it is sacrificed in the turbulence of change. Votes: 0

It would be wonderful if I could see the end of civilization during my lifetime. Votes: 0

If the Earth gets hit by an asteroid, it's game over. It's control-alt-delete for civilization. Votes: 0

The last struggle for our rights, the battle for our civilization, is entirely with ourselves. Votes: 0

Sweatpants painted to look like denim are the end of civilization. It drives me mental. Votes: 0

A civilization is as great as its dreams, and its dreams are dreamt by artists. Votes: 0

Terrorism is a horrible thing that is the great threat to civilization on our planet. Votes: 0

The test of civilization is the power of drawing the most benefit out of cities. Votes: 0

The real index of civilization is when people are kinder than they need to be. Votes: 0

The city is the nerve center of our civilization. It is also the storm center, Votes: 0

No civilization on the brink of collapse has ever changed fast enough to avert collapse. Votes: 0

Of what value is a civilization that can't toast a piece of bread as ordered? Votes: 0

Wilderness is the raw material out of which man has hammered the artifact called civilization. Votes: 0

A higher standard of living also brings about a higher standard of culture and civilization. Votes: 0

Poetry is the elder sister of history, the mother of language, the ancestress of civilization. Votes: 0

When work goes out of style we may expect to see civilization totter and fall. Votes: 0

If the Aborigine drafted an I.Q. test, all of Western civilization would presumably flunk it. Votes: 0

Some people die before their time so that others can live. It's a cornerstone of civilization. Votes: 0

The moral development of a civilization is measured by the breadth of its sense of community. Votes: 0

If you look at any ancient civilization, they've all used fantasy stories to train the young. Votes: 0

From first to last the civilization of America has been bound up with its physical environment. Votes: 0

Each civilization has its own kind of pestilence and can control it only by reforming itself. Votes: 0

Everything in modern civilization is based on this concept of time which is not really valid. Votes: 0

It is a luxury to do something that serves no practical purpose: the luxury of civilization. Votes: 0

The Message of Mohammad is not a set of metaphysical phenomena. It is a complete civilization. Votes: 0

What do I think of Western civilization? I think it would be a very good idea. Votes: 0

The danger of civilization, of course, is that you will piss away your life on nonsense. Votes: 0

The history of civilization could actually be written in terms of the level of its women. Votes: 0

When civilization stands at the edge of a cliff, a step forward doesn't make much sense. Votes: 0

To speak...means above all to assume a culture, to support the weight of a civilization. Votes: 0

The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization. Votes: 0

There's no such thing as civilization. The word just means the art of living in cities. Votes: 0

This civilization is such that one has only to be patient and it will be self-destroyed. Votes: 0

If civilization is to survive, it must live on the interest, not the capital, of nature. Votes: 0

The wise use of leisure, it must be conceded, is a product of civilization and education. Votes: 0

The imagination is the secret and marrow of civilization. It is the very eye of faith. Votes: 0

you can't say civilization dont advance, in every war they kill you in a new way Votes: 0

If civilization has risen from the Stone Age, it can rise again from the Wastepaper Age. Votes: 0

To defend a country you need an army, but to defend a civilization you need education. Votes: 0

The law should be the point at which savagery ended because civilization stood in its path. Votes: 0

The degree of a nation's civilization can be seen in the way it treats its prisoners Votes: 0

You can't say civilization don't advance... in every war they kill you in a new way. Votes: 0

As long as art is the beauty parlor of civilization, neither art nor civilization is secure. Votes: 0

For nature is good, an man is 'by nature' good; it is civilization which ruins him Votes: 0

Marriage is the basic building block of civilization. We are redefining it at our own peril. Votes: 0

When a civilization, a race, a people, a society, when they lack love, they are soon destroyed. Votes: 0

More than any other time in history, the 1990s will be a turning point for human civilization. Votes: 0

The measure of a civilization is in the courage, not of its soldiers, but of its bystanders. Votes: 0

Our ability to reach unity in diversity will be the beauty and the test of our civilization. Votes: 0

Liberty is a luxury of security; the free individual is a product and a mark of civilization. Votes: 0

As long as you have war, police, prisons, crime, you are in the early stages of civilization. Votes: 0

What I tell you three times is true. What I tell you three million times is civilization. Votes: 0

If any civilization is to survive, it is the morality of altruism that men have to reject. Votes: 0

There is no document of civilization that is not at the same time a document of barbarism. Votes: 0

The test of the moral quality of a civilization is its treatment of the weak and powerless. Votes: 0

Deception is a developed art of civilization and the most potent weapon in the game of power Votes: 0

You can tell a lot about a civilization by the quality of the people found in its jails. Votes: 0

If we wish our civilization to survive we must break with the habit of deference to great men. Votes: 0

A civilization is built on what is required of men, not on that which is provided for them. Votes: 0

One is a member of a country, a profession, a civilization, a religion. One is not just a man. Votes: 0

The more I see of what you call civilization, the more highly I think of what you call savagery! Votes: 0