Civilization Quotes
Without winners, there wouldn't even be any civilization.
Woody Hayes




Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty, and dies with chaos.




You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war, they kill you in a new way.




Civilization has been a permanent dialogue between human beings and water
Paolo Lugari




The sole pre-occupation of this learned society was the destruction of humanity for philanthropic reasons and the perfection of weapons as instruments of civilization.
Jules Verne




And here we encounter the seeds of government disaster and collapse -- the kind that wrecked ancient Rome and every other civilization that allowed a socio political monster called the welfare state to exist




A civilization which destroys what little remains of the wild, the spare, the original, is cutting itself off from its origins and betraying the principle of civilization itself
Edward Abbey†




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




There is just one hope for repulsing the tyrannical ambition of civilization to conquer every inch on the whole earth. That hope is the organization of spirited people who will fight for the freedom and preservation of the wilderness.




For me and for thousands with similar inclinations, the most important passion of life is the overpowering desire to escape periodically from the clutches of a mechanistic civilization. To us the enjoyment of solitude, complete independence, and the beauty of undefined panoramas is absolutely essential to happiness.




Wilderness itself is the basis of all our civilization. I wonder if we have enough reverence for life to concede to wilderness the right to live on?
Margaret (Mardy) Murie




Civilization has been a permanent dialogue between human beings and water.
Paolo Lugari




It is so stupid of modern civilization to have given up believing in the devil when he is the only explanation of it
Ronald Knox




It is stupid of modern civilization to have given up believing in the devil, when he is the only explanation of it.
Knox, Ronald Arbuthnot




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.
Jacques Ellul




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




Engineers ... are not mere technicians and should not approve or lend their name to any project that does not promise to be beneficent to man and the advancement of civilization.
John Fowler




Engineers … are not mere technicians and should not approve or lend their name to any project that does not promise to be beneficent to man and the advancement of civilization
John Fowler




There are historic situations in which refusal to defend the inheritance of a civilization, however imperfect, against tyranny and aggression may result in consequences even worse than war.




Our manners, our civilization, and all the good things connected with manners and civilization, have, in this European world of ours, depended for ages upon two principles: I mean the spirit of a gentleman, and the spirit of religion.




The flowering of civilization is the finished man, the man of sense, of grace, of accomplishment, of social power--the gentleman.




Mankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell.




Intelligent discontent is the mainspring of civilization. Progress is born of agitation. It is agitation or stagnation.
Eugene Debs




Having a thirteen-year-old in the family is like having a general-admission ticket to the movies, radio and TV. You get to understand that the glittering new arts of our civilization are directed to the teenagers, and by their suffrage they stand or fall.
Max Lerner




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







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