Civilization Quotes

There is something even more valuable to civilization than wisdom, and that is character

The tendency in modern civilization is to make the world uniform... Let the mind be universal. The individual should not be sacrifice

Rabindranath Tagore

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

A set of global values in keeping with human nature and dignity need to be identified and developed

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

Art is the signature of civilizations.

Beverly Sills

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

Arnold Toynbee

We used to build civilizations. Now we build shopping malls.

William Cullen Bryant

We veneer civilization by doing unkind things in a kind way

George Bernard Shaw

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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