Top Civilization Quotes

If a test of civilization be sought, none can be so sure as the condition of that half of society over which the other half has power.

Action is the activity of the rational soul, which abhors irrationality and must combat it or be corrupted by it. When it sees the irrationality of others, it must seek to correct it, and can do this...

Civilization Definition

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

(n.) Rendering a criminal process civil.

As we embark upon the twenty-first century, it seems ironically clear that tomorrow’s anarchy might still be due, in no small part, to yesterday’s colonial attempts at order. I have no wish to give th...

Few travelled in these days, for, thanks to the advance of science, the earth was exactly alike all over. Rapid intercourse, from which the previous civilization had hoped so much, had ended by defeat...

The general air of insecurity and affection made it too easy for him to imagine these once-a-year fabulous creatures as the cubicle dwellers most of them were in everyday life.

In civilized societies, if you are offended by a cartoon, you do not burn flags, take up guns and raid buildings, chant death to your opponents, or threaten suicide bombings. You write a letter to the...

Novelty is a new kind of loneliness.

Before civilization, artists painted for the living. Today, most paint for a living.

You can best serve civilization by being against what usually passes for it.

(Catholic) monks taught metallurgy, introduced new crops, copied ancient texts, preserved literacy, pioneered in technology, invented champagne, improved the European landscape, provided for wanderers...

The human landscape of the New World shows a conquest of nature by an intelligence that does not love it.

What do I think of Western civilization? I think it would be a very good idea.

Human civilization as we know it is like the Titanic headed for the iceberg, whether the iceberg be nuclear, environmental or terrorism-related.

When humor goes, there goes civilization.

A child comes from God, a child is a gift from God, but a child is not our possession. Give the child unconditional love and freedom. Respect the child, the child has its own soul. The child has its o...

What, after all, was the point of civilization if not the well-being of citizens?

Revenge is a human trait, one that has been the cause of the destruction of civilisations many times over. But the goblins live on in peace and harmony, taking little notice of us and our mistakes.

I hate paying taxes. But I love the civilization they give me

A civilized society is one that exhibits the five qualities of truth beauty adventure art and peace.

Civilizations die from philosophical calm irony and the sense of fair play quite as surely as they die of debauchery.