Quotes
Quotes about Civilization
The true test of civilization is, not the census, nor the size of the cities, nor the crops, but the kind of man that the country ;turns out.
The three great elements of modern civilization, Gunpowder, Printing, and the Protestant Religion.
You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war, they kill you in a new way.
The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.
Civilization is the process of reducing the infinite to the finite.
The two World Wars came in part, like much modern literature and art, because men, whose nature is to tire of everything in turn, ... tired of common sense and civilization.
We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology.
Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them.
If man were immortal he could be perfectly sure of seeing the day when everything in which he had trusted should betray his trust, and, in short, of coming eventually to hopeless misery. He would break down, at last, as every good fortune, as every dynasty, as every civilization does. In place of this we have death.
If man were immortal he could be perfectly sure of seeing the day when everything in which he had trusted should betray his trust, and, in short, of coming eventually to hopeless misery. He would break down, at last, as every good fortune, as every dynasty, as every civilization does. In place of this we have death.
A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on an installment plan.
Sometimes, when I drive across the desert in the middle of the night, with no other cars around, I start imagining: What if there were no civilization out there? No cities, no factories, no people? And then I think: No people or factories? Then who made this car? And this highway? And I get so confused I have to stick my head out the window into the driving rain---unless there's lightning, because I could get struck on the head by a bolt.
The disease of mutual distrust among nations is the bane of modern civilization.
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.
Education is the transmission of civilization.
Education is the transmission of civilization.
Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.
The money-changers have fled from their high seats in the temple of our civilization. We may now restore that temple to the ancient truths.
One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person.
America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
Civilization is hideously fragile [and] there's not much between us and the horrors underneath, just about a coat of varnish.
One might say that the true subject of the horror genre is the struggle for recognition of all that our civilization represses and oppresses.
Hospitals are only an intermediate stage of civilization.
It is better for civilization to be going down the drain than to be coming up it.
Imagination has given us the steam engine, the telephone, the talking-machine, and the automobile, for these things had to be dreamed of before they became realities. So I believe that dreams - daydreams, you know, with your eyes wide open and your brain machinery whizzing-are likely to lead to the betterment of the world. The imaginative child will become the imaginative man or woman most apt to invent, and therefore to foster, civilization.
