Top Civilization Quotes

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

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...

Civilization Definition

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

(n.) Rendering a criminal process civil.

The human mind is a lucky little local, passing accident which was totally unforeseen, and condemned to disappear with this earth and to recommence perhaps here or elsewhere the same or different with...

Have you ever plunged into the immensity of space and time by reading the geological treatises of Cuvier? Borne away on the wings of his genius, have you hovered over the illimitable abyss of the past...

the veneer of civilization is exceedingly thin

Wherever an altar is found, there civilization exists.

The larger the pile of rubble you leave behind, the larger your place in the historical record!

Praise be to Allah, who revealed the Book, controls the clouds, defeats factionalism, and says in His Book: 'But when the forbidden months are past, then fight and slay the pagans wherever ye find the...

Like the legends of Kon-Tiki Viracocha [...], the South American civilizing hero, white-skinned and bearded like Quetzalcoatl and the Apkallu sages [...], who was said to have come to the Andes during...

Quetzalcoatl, the Feathered Serpent, [...] came to teach [the ancient inhabitants of Mexico] the benefits of settled agriculture and the skills necessary to build temples. Although this deity is frequ...

A gold tooth is to some blacks, what braces are to all whites.

Look at their arts, their power of turning stone into lifelike figures, and above all, the way in which they can transfer their thoughts to white leaves, so that others, many many years hence, can rea...

Civilization transformed man from a food gatherer to a gatherer of pieces of paper: diplomas, employment contracts, money, etc.

The employed are punished by having to do what they do not love. The self-employed are punished by the opposite.

An angry artist tells people what (he thinks) they need to hear. A hungry artist tells people what (he thinks) they want to hear.

We've become so civilized it is unnatural to be naked.

Taxation is the price we pay for failing to build a civilized society. The higher the tax level, the greater the failure. A centrally planned totalitarian state represents a complete defeat for the ci...

A civilization must be judged by its standards not by its expenditure.

Every civilization is a fruit from the sturdy tree of barbarism, and falls at the greatest distance from its trunk.

According to H.G. Wells, you either adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature’s inexorable imperative. It is not necessary to change, after all survival is not mandatoryThis generation might seem arroga...