Quotes
Quotes about Civilization
When tillage begins, other arts follow. The farmers therefore are the founders of human civilization.
That civilization perishes in which the individual thwarts the revelation of the universal.
You can't say civilization isn't advancing, in every war they kill you in a new way.
The true test of a civilization is, not the census, nor the size of the cities, nor the crops - no, but the kind of man the country turns out.
The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.
If the aborigine drafted an IQ test, all of Western civilization would presumably flunk it.
The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.
The true civilization is where every man gives to every other every right that he claims for himself.
Our society must make it right and possible for old people not to fear the young or be deserted by them, for the test of a civilization is the way that it cares for its helpless members.
Without adventure civilization is in full decay.
Had there been no difficulties and no thorns in the way, then man would have been in his primitive state and no progress made in civilization and mental culture.
The artist should be a seeing-eye dog for a myopic civilization.
Chastity is the cement of civilization and progress. Without it there is no stability in society, and without it one cannot attain the Science of Life.
There is an evil power, a Satanic power, which holds souls in error, and which persists. It is interesting to note that in the first centuries of the Christian era many demoniacal phenomena appeared in countries in the course of being converted from idolatry to Christianity. The same is true of pagan civilisation today. In my research into the fourth century, I was surprised to find a great recrudescence of magical practices at the very moment when Roman civilization under Constantine was about to be snatched away bodily from paganism and enter... into the kingdom of the Son; at that time, all the rites of sorcery took on an incredible virulence.
Feast of Augustine, Bishop of Hippo, Teacher, 430 Great art Thou, O Lord, and highly to be praised; great is Thy power, yea, and Thy wisdom is infinite. And man would praise Thee, because he is one of Thy creatures; yea, man, though he bears about with him his mortality, the proof of his sin, the proof that Thou, O God, dost resist the proud, yet would man praise Thee, because he is one of Thy creatures. Thou dost prompt us thereto, making it a joy to praise Thee; for Thou hast created us unto Thyself, and our heart finds no rest until it rests in Thee. Grant me, O Lord, to know and understand which comes first, to call upon Thee, or to praise Thee, and which comes first, to know Thee or to call upon Thee. ... The Confessions of St. Augustine August 29, 1998 Instead of pursuing her appointed path of separation, persecution, world-hatred, poverty, and non-resistance, [the Church] has used... Scripture to justify her in lowering her purpose to the civilization of the world, the acquisition of wealth, the use of an imposing ritual, the erection of magnificent churches, the invocation of God's blessing upon the conflicts of armies, and the division of an equal brotherhood into "clergy" and "laity".
Civilization is not a burden. It is an opportunity.
In the advance of civilization, it is new knowledge which paves the way, and the pavement is eternal.
All the things now enjoyed by civilization have been created by some man and sold by another man before anybody really enjoyed the ;benefits of them.
Civilization is the order and freedom promoting cultural activity.
Civilization ceases when we no longer respect and no longer put into their correct places the fundamental values, such as work, family and country such as the individual, honor and religion.
Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.
The sum of the whole matter is this, that our civilization cannot survive materially unless it be redeemed spiritually.
We must remember that any oppression, any injustice, any hatred, is a wedge designed to attack our civilization.
Every advance in civilization has been denounced as unnatural while it was recent.
Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty, and dies with chaos.
