Civilization Quotes
There is something even more valuable to civilization than wisdom, and that is character
Henry Louis Mencken
What man calls civilization always results in deserts.
DON MARQUIS
Many of the great achievements in history that are commonly attributed to one geo-cultural domain often owe a great debt to those of others. In this sense, some of the greatest achievements of human civilisation have been collective efforts and are part of the same human story.
Nayef Al-Rodhan
What makes our existence meaningful is highly subjective and ultimately determined by sustainable neurochemical gratification.
Nayef Al-Rodhan
The history of human civilisation is a history of mutual borrowings.
Nayef Al-Rodhan
There is only one collective human civilisation comprised of geo-cultural domains and cultures.
Nayef Al-Rodhan
Human beings are “emotional amoral egoists”, driven above all by emotional self-interest. All of our thoughts, beliefs and motivations are neurochemically mediated, some predetermined for survival, others alterable.
Nayef Al-Rodhan
Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor.
Arnold Toynbee
You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war, they kill you in a new way.
Will Rogers
We used to build civilizations. Now we build shopping malls.
William Cullen Bryant
Courtesy is a silver lining around the dark clouds of civilization; it is the best part of refinement and in many ways, an art of heroic beauty in the vast gallery of mans cruelty and baseness.
Bryant McGill
The three great elements of modern civilization, gunpowder, printing, and the Protestant religion.
Thomas Carlyle
The writer, the actor, the musician, the filmmaker - they have become radiant jewels in the crown of modern civilization.
Arundhati Roy
No people ever did or ever can attain a worthy civilization by the satisfaction merely of material needs . . .
Louis Dembitz Brandeis
