Top Civilization Quotes

The missing link between humans and apes? It's certainly those brutes who haven't yet learned to respect privacy.

We human beings regard ourselves as (or compare ourselves to) animals only when it suits us.

Civilization Definition

(n.) The act of civilizing, or the state of being civilized; national culture; refinement.

(n.) Rendering a criminal process civil.

Fatally, the term 'barbarian' is the password that opens up the archives of the twentieth century. It refers to the despiser of achievement, the vandal, the status denier, the iconoclast, who refuses...

The modern man is usually in a hurry to get to a destination from which he will sooner or later suffer from and at times complain about boredom.

Civilization could not exist without tremors of desire and without the counteracting, negation force of disciplined denial. Nor would the gyratory pulsations of a lively civilization exist devoid of t...

I realize then that the disappearance of a culture does not signify the disappearance of human value, but simply of certain means of expressing this value, yet the fact remains that I have no sympathy...

Just like you silly bums, I have a personal sky god. I bow to him, as you do to your airy-fairy sod. He prefers I call him Mr. NOT.

Civilization is always threatened from below, by patterns of belief and emotion that may once have been useful to our ancestors, but that are useful no longer.

What can oppose the decline of the west is not a resurrected culture but the utopia that is silently contained in the image of its decline.

Death is number one on the list of things that we wish were possible to leave behind when we escaped barbarism.

With the growth of civilisation in Europe, and with the revival of letters and of science in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, the ethical and intellectual criticism of theology once more recomm...

The way of the consumerist culture is to spend so much energy chasing happiness that it has none left to be happy.

It is a curious mystery [...] that the exact same notions of the Seven Sages as the bringers of civilization in the remotest antiquity, and of the preservation and repromulgation of writings on stones...

(When asked what he thought of Western civilization): 'I think it would be a good idea.

Living in a world where people measure their happiness by self-indulgence and decadence, Is like watching a whole society being pushed into the abyss of perpetual decay and aberrations.

The fullest account we have of Oannes is found in surviving fragments of the works of a Babylonian priest called Berossos who wrote in the third century BC. [...] Oannes did not do his work alone but...

By the time of the arrival of Islam in the early seventeenth century CE, what we now call the Middle East was divided between the Persian and Byzantine empires. But with the spread of this new religio...

Any nation that wishes to enjoy the fruits of development and civilization, must follow the golden rules of this scripture as a national policy and culture.

Peace ought not be regarded the height of civilization, else like barbarians we forever battle for peace.

[Pope] Clement waved his hands in irritation as if to dismiss the very idea. The world is crumbling into ruin. Armies are marching. Men and women are dying everywhere, in huge numbers. Fields are aban...