Civilization Quotes

• The seeds of civilization are in every culture, but it is city life that brings them to fruition.

  

  Susanne Langer
  • Culture
  • Cities
  • Seeds

• Civilization, in the real sense of the term, consists not in the multiplication, but in the deliberate and voluntary reduction of wants.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Reduction
  • Real Sense
  • Multiplicatiom

• Civilization may progress, human nature will remain the same throughout all ages.

  

  H. P. Blavatsky
  • May
  • Nature
  • Age

• [My characters are] conglomerations of past and present stages of civilization, bits from books and newspapers, scraps of humanity, rags and tatters of fine clothing, patched together as is the human soul.

  

  August Strindberg
  • Together
  • Soul
  • Past

• We need to shift from an economic organizing principle for human civilization, to a humanitarian organizing principle. Making money more important than your own children is a pathological way for an individual to run their affairs, and it's a pathological way for a society to run its affairs.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Important
  • Children
  • Money

• It seems to me we are now, since 1789, going through the same sort of process of regeneration the Roman world went through between 300 and 500. It is only to be hoped all civilization will not again be destroyed by the anarchists.

  

  Harry Graf Kessler
  • Process
  • Destroyed
  • Regeneration

• Civilization begins with distillation.

  

  William Faulkner
  • Civilization
  • Distillation

• Modern civilization has taught us to convert night into day and golden silence into brazen din and noise.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Silence
  • Modern
  • Golden

• Civilization exists precisely so that there may be no masses but rather men alert enough never to constitute masses.

  

  Georges Bernanos
  • Civilization
  • Masses
  • Constitute

• Civilization never recedes; the law of necessity ever forces it onwards.

  

  Jules Verne
  • Civilization
  • Forces
  • Recedes

• Civility isn't just some optional value in a multicultural, multistate democratic republic. Civility is the key to civilization.

  

  Van Jones
  • Value
  • Keys
  • Republic

• In the first half of the 20th Century, we lived through human disasters on a scale unimaginable. The Holocaust was once suggested would be the end of not only civilization, but art, too.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • Art
  • Civilization
  • Holocaust

• All that is good in civilization must be for the equal use of all, in order that each man may make his life most worthwhile to the common life and to himself.

  

  George Davis Herron
  • Good
  • Civilization
  • Worthwhile

• If youth were not ignorant and timid, civilization would be impossible.

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • Civilization
  • Ignorant
  • Timid

• We can dream of an America, and a world, in which love and not money are civilization's bottom line.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • World
  • Money
  • Dream

• The dog that buried the bone which even a canine appetite could not manage, the squirrel that gathered nuts for a later feast, the bees that filled the comb with honey, the ants that laid up stores for a rainy day - these were among the first creators of civilization. It was they....who taught our ancestors the art of providing for tomorrow out of the surplus of today, or of preparing for winter in summer's time of plenty.

  

  Will Durant
  • Winter
  • Honey
  • Appetite

• As yet, barbarism inspires the methods, and is the leading star of civilization. We have not ascended to the realm of ideas...

  

  Ezra Heywood
  • Ideas
  • Civilization
  • Barbarism

• So as long as you can forget your body you are happy and the moment you begin to be aware of your body, you are wretched. So if civilization is any good, it has to help us forget our bodies, and then time passes happily without our knowing it. Help us get rid of our bodies altogether.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Time
  • Good
  • Long

• Loving Your Enemies... Far from being the pious injunction of a utopian dreamer, this demand is an absolute necessity for the survival of our civilization. Yes it is love that will save our world and civilization; love even for our enemies.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Civilization
  • Enemies
  • Utopian Dreamer

• The imagination is the secret and marrow of civilization. It is the very eye of faith.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Imagination
  • Secret
  • Civilization

• Civilizaton is the interval between Ice Ages.

  

  Will Durant
  • Civilization
  • Ice Ages

• Modern Existentialism... is a total European creation, perhaps the last philosophic legacy of Europe to America or whatever other civilization is now on its way to supplant Europe.

  

  William Barrett
  • America
  • Creation
  • Europe

• Based on the experience of history and civilization of mankind, which is more important for Muslims today, to no longer busy discussing the greatness that Muslims achieved in the past, or debating who first discovered the number zero, including the number one, two, three and so on, as the contribution of Muslims in the writing of numbers in this modern era and the foundation and development of civilizations throughout the world. But how Muslims will regained the lead and control of science and technology, leading back and become a leader in the world of science and civilization, because it represents a real achievement.

  

  Bacharuddin Jusuf Habibie
  • Experience
  • History
  • Mankind

• If civilization is to be bound up with material advancement, we must accept its inevitable consequence, loss of freedom in enact proportion to the forward march.

  

  C. Rajagopalachari
  • Freedom
  • Consequence
  • Advancement

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