Top Civilization Quotes

In much of the rest of the world, rich people live in gated communities and drink bottled water. That's increasingly the case in Los Angeles where I come from. So that wealthy people in much of the wo...

The Sanskrit texts make it clear that a cataclysm on this scale, though a relatively rare event, is expected to wash away of the former world and that the slate will be wiped clean again for the new...

Civilization Definition

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

(n.) Rendering a criminal process civil.

What is peace? Balance three iron skewers tip to tip, one upon the other; at the summit, emplace an egg, so that it too poises static in mid-air, and there you have the condition of peace in this worl...

Not just charity, even corruption begins at home.

Magic begins in superstition, and ends in science. ... At every step the history of civilization teaches us how slight and superficial a structure civilization is, and how precariously it is poised up...

People usually feel funny, smile and laugh when I tell them about my strong belief in the very existence of prehistoric advanced technology and great civilizations of wilier races. I just can't wait t...

What 'primitive' men called gossip, 'civilized' men call news.

We are born princes and the civilizing process makes us frogs.

It is not the sanctuary that is in danger; it is civilization. It is not infallibility that may go down; it is personal rights. It is not the Eucharist that may pass away; it is freedom of conscience....

Let us hope that the advent of a successful flying machine, now only dimly foreseen and nevertheless thought to be possible, will bring nothing but good into the world; that it shall abridge distance,...

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

The civilizations barter in coldness; they peddles it, reinforces it, market it, entices with it, reward it, and then flees from it when it's unchecked force is too much to marvel at. Soon absolute ze...

Thanks to arranged marriages: There are countless women who have never been their husband's girlfriend.

In much of the rest of the world, rich people live in gated communities and drink bottled water. That's increasingly the case in Los Angeles where I come from. So that wealthy people in much of the wo...

If the Earth gets hit by an asteroid, it's game over. It's control-alt-delete for civilization.

[T]he normal and the everyday are often amazingly unstoppable, and what is unimaginable is the cessation of them. The world is resilient, and, no matter what interruptions occur, people so badly want...

My characters are more like men than these real men are, see. They're rough and rude, they got hands and they got bellies. They hate and they lust; break the skin of civilization and you find the ape,...

Civilization on Earth planet was equated with selfishness and greed; those people who lived in a civilized state exploited those who did not. There were shortages of vital commodities on Earth planet,...

Civilization did not come with fire. It came with the discovery of how to use fire to heat water.

This topic brings me to that worst outcrop of herd life, the military system, which I abhor... This plague-spot of civilization ought to be abolished with all possible speed. Heroism on command, sense...