Civilization Quotes
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The city an epitome of the social world. All the belts of civilization intersect along its avenues. It contains the products of every moral zone. It is cosmopolitan, not only in a national, but a spiritual sense.
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As we enter the 21st Century it is clear that we have entered an unprecedented global age in which our diverse cultures, religions, philosophies, worldviews and perspectives encounter one another in the marketplace of our global village. It is now clear that our future sustainability on this planet calls for radical advances in our rational and human capacities to negotiate the powerful forces between worlds as the human family moves towards a sustainable global civilization.
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Civilization and the life of nations are governed by the same laws as prevail throughout nature and organic life.
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A great civilization is not conquered from without, until it has destroyed itself from within. The essential causes of Rome's decline lay in her people, her morals, her class struggle, her failing trade, her bureaucratic despotism, her stifling taxes, her consuming wars.
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A republic may be called the climate of civilization.
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Coal is the single greatest threat to civilization and all life on our planet.
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For you will sorely miss civilization if it is sacrificed in the turbulence of change.
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Reading is at the center of our lives. The library is our brain. Without the library, you have no civilization.
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A man's hope measures his civilization. The attainability of the hope measures, or may measure, the civilization of his nation and time.
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It is Love that will save our world and our civilization.
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Good soldiers, bad officers; however don't forget that without them we would not have any Civilization.
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The demands of unbounded individualism need to be weighed in the light of inherent social constraints which can only change their form but cannot be eliminated without eliminating civilization.
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Each new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little barbarians, who must be civilized before it is too late.
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One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman. No biological, psychological, or economic fate determines the figure that the human female presents in society; it is civilization as a whole that produces this creature, intermediate between male and eunuch, which is described as feminine.
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If we want our civilization to survive, we have to watch for the extremes. We have to reclaim our morality, both individually and as the society. To protect ourselves from extremisms, we have to maintain moderation.
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A civilization is born Stoic and dies Epicurean.
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Money no longer has any meaning. Civilization is coming to an end. If not the destruction of the world, it's an endless stalemate.
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It is often asserted that woman owes all the advantages of the position she occupies to-day to Christianity, but the facts of history show that the Christian Church has done nothing specifically for woman's elevation. In the general march of civilization, she has necessarily reaped the advantage of man's higher development, but we must not claim for Christianity all that has been achieved by science, discovery and invention.
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A tablecloth restaurant is still one of the great rewards of civilization.
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Cities are the least permanent things in our civilization.
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Civilization is social order promoting cultural creation. Four elements constitute it: economic provision, political organization, moral tradition, and the pursuit of knowledge and the arts. It begins where chaos and insecurity end. For when fear is overcome, curiosity and constructiveness are free, and man passes by natural impulse towards the understanding and embellishment of life.
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God established the family as the foundation of civilization.
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On golf: One of the most distressing defects of civilization.
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It seems to me far more likely that an advanced civilization would communicate inter dimensionally and telepathically.
