Top Civilization Quotes

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...

That frontier operated as a rough and ready homeostatic device; the more a state pressed its subjects, the fewer subjects it had. The frontier underwrote popular freedom.

Civilization Definition

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

(n.) Rendering a criminal process civil.

Odd, don't you think? I have seen war, and invasions and riots. I have heard of massacres and brutalities beyond imagining, and I have kept my faith in the power of civilization to bring men back from...

My argument has long been that the Edfu Building Texts reflect real events surrounding a real cataclysm that unfolded between 12,800 and 11,600 years ago, a period known to paleoclimatologists as the...

The Message of Mohammad is not a set of metaphysical phenomena. It is a complete civilization.

Family life was and always will be the foundation of any civilization. Destroy the family and you destroy the country.

In the highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight. He who has once known its satisfactions is provided with a resource against calamity.

To keep any great nation up to a high standard of civilization there must be enough superior characters to hold the balance of power, but the very moment the balance of power gets into the hands of se...

The science done by the young Einstein will continue as long as our civilization, but for civilization to survive, we'll need the wisdom of the old Einstein -- humane, global and farseeing. And whatev...

So the story of man runs in a dreary circle, because he is not yet master of the earth that holds him.

To make the distinction unmistakably clear: Civilization is the vital force in human history; culture is that inert mass of institutions and organizations which accumulate around and tend to drag down...

We are in a mutually dependent society, called civilization, and government is the oil that keeps it running and the lifeblood that carries oxygen to the various parts of the civic body.

Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. Without books, the development of civilization wou...

Today every city, town, or village is affected by it. We have entered the Neon Civilization and become a plastic world.. It goes deeper than its visual manifestations, it affects moral matters; we are...

Under the rough and ridiculous circumstances of life in the Rocky Mountains there was something exciting and vital, full of rude poetry: the heartbeat of the West as it fought its way upward toward ci...

Gullibility is a knife at the throat of civilization.

Our lifetime may be the last that will be lived out in a technological society.

Back then: to be regarded as well-known, one had to be great. Today: to be regarded as great, one has to be well-known.

Politics doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt politics.

The function of the university is not simply to teach breadwinning, or to furnish teachers for the public schools, or to be a centre of polite society; it is, above all, to be the organ of that fine a...