Top Civilization Quotes

My sense of the holy is bound up with the hope that some day my remote descendants will live in a global civilization in which love is pretty much the only law.

This Voyager spacecraft was constructed by the United States of America. We are a community of 240 million human beings among the more than 4 billion who inhabit the planet Earth. We human beings are...

Civilization Definition

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

(n.) Rendering a criminal process civil.

A Greek invention, democracy is highly overrated. For starters, it never worked in Greece. The first philosophers were fascists and, even today, 2,500 years later, the "cradle of Western 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...

Civilization is unbearable, but it is less unbearable at the top.

Berossos compiled his from the temple archives of Babylon (reputed to have contained public records that had been preserved for over 150,000 years). He has passed on to us a description of Oannes as...

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...

Knowledge is the key to the development of civilization.

This revolutionary idea of Western citizenship—replete with ever more rights and responsibilities—would provide superb manpower for growing legions and a legal framework that would guarantee that the...

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...

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

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....

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

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...

It was an old hunter in camp and the hunter shared tobacco with him and told him of the buffalo and the stands he'd made against them, laid up in a sag on some rise with the dead animals scattered ove...

Architecture belongs to culture, not to civilization.

Only as we live, think, feel, and work outside the home, do we become humanly developed, civilized, socialized.

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,...

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...

The strength of a civilization is not measured by its ability to fight wars, but rather by its ability to prevent them.