Civilization Quotes & Sayings

Quotes with keyword Civilization
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~ Civilization... wrecks the planet from seafloor to stratosphere. ~

Richard Bach

~ If civilization has risen from the Stone Age, it can rise again from the Wastepaper Age. ~

Jacques Barzun

~ Education is the transmission of civilization. ~

Ariel and Will Durant

~ Unless there is a vast alteration in manís civilization as it stumbles along today,man will not be here very long. ~

L. Ron Hubbard

~ Civilizations should be measured by the degree of diversity attained and the degree of unity retained. ~

W.H. Auden

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

Barbara W. Tuchman

~ Each of us in our own way can try to spread compassion into peopleís hearts. Western civilizations these days place great importance on filling the human 'brain' with knowledge, but no one seems to care about filling the human 'heart' with compassion. This is what the real role of religion is. ~

Dalai Lama

~ The thin and precarious crust of decency is all that separates any civilization, however impressive, from the hell of anarchy or systematic tyranny which lie in wait beneath the surface ~

Aldous Leonard Huxley

~ A slight daily unconscious luxury is hardly ever wanting to the dwellers in civilization; like the gentle air of a genial climate, it is a perpetual minute enjoyment ~

Bagehot

~ Art is the signature of civilizations. ~

Beverly Sills

~ Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities. ~

Mark Twain

~ Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor. ~

Arnold Toynbee

~ All over the world the wildlife that I write about is in grave danger. It is being exterminated by what we call the progress of civilization. ~

Gerald Durrell

~ A German immersed in any civilization different from his own loses a weight equivalent in volume to the amount of intelligence he displaces. ~

Jose Bergamin

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

Vince Lombardi

~ Civilization is a conspiracy. Modern life is the silent compact of comfortable folk to keep up pretences. ~

John Buchan

~ We will never be an advanced civilization as long as rain showers can delay the launching of a space rocket. ~

George Carlin

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

Daniel Webster

~ Every civilization is, among other things, an arrangement for domesticating the passions and setting them to do useful work. ~

Aldous Huxley

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

Vince Lombardi

~ Sex appeal is the keynote of our civilization ~

Henri Bergson

~ 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. ~

Abraham Flexner

~ To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization. ~

Arnold Toynbee

~ I would seriously question whether anybody is really foolish enough to really say what they mean. Sometimes I think that civilization as we know it would kind of break down if we all were completely honest. ~

Elizabeth Hurley

~ A civilization flourishes when people plant trees under which they will never sit. ~

Greek Proverb

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

Vince Lombardi

~ There is a higher form of patriotism than nationalism, and that higher form is not limited by the boundaries of one's country; but by a duty to mankind to safeguard the trust of civilization. ~

Oscar S. Strauss

~ Vanity as an impulse has without doubt been of far more benefit to civilization than modesty has ever been. ~

William E. Woodward

~ The exact measure of the progress of civilization is the degree in which the intelligence of the common mind has prevailed over wealth and brute force. ~

George Bancroft

~ I know it is more agreeable to walk upon carpets than to lie upon dungeon floors, I know it is pleasant to have all the comforts and luxuries of civilization; but he who cares only for these things is worth no more than a butterfly, contented and thoughtless, upon a morning flower; and who ever thought of rearing a tombstone to a last summer's butterfly? ~

Henry Ward Beecher

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