Civilization Quotes

Novelty is a new kind of loneliness.

Wendell Berry

The exaltation of human reason and its capabilities, a commitment to rigorous and rational debate, a promotion of intellectual inquiry and scholarly exchange--all sponsored by the Church--provided the framework for the Scientific Revolution.

Thomas E. Woods Jr.

I say that almost everywhere there is beauty enough to fill a person's life if one would only be sensitive to it. but Henry says No: that broken beauty is only a torment, that one must have a whole beauty with man living in relation to it to have a rich civilization and art. . . . Is it because I am a woman that I accept what crumbs I may have, accept the hot-dog stands and amusement parks if I must, if the blue is bright beyond them and the sunset flushes the breasts of sea birds?

Elizabeth Coatsworth

We seldom realize, for example that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given to us by our society.

Alan Wilson Watts

When people stargazing, they stare at stars,and many other things which they've already presumed commonly and universally as stars.

Toba Beta

Western civilization, Christianity, decency are struggling for their very lives. In this worldwide civil war, race prejudice is our most dangerous enemy, for it is a disease at the very root of our democratic life.

Mordecai Wyatt Johnson

There is no salvation for us but to adopt Civilization and lift ourselves down to its level

Mark Twain

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

Will Durant

Science is a trigger of changes of civilization. Religion is the failsafe of science performance.

Toba Beta

In God's scheme what is a few billion years here and there. Perhaps there have come and gone a dozen human civilizations in the past billion years that we know nothing about. And after this civilization we are living in destroys itself, it will all start up again in a million years when the planet has all its messes cleaned up. Then, finally, one of these civilizations, say five billion years from now, will last because people treat each other the way they ought to.

Leon Uris

It is a science fact that some animals do dream.It'll someday lead them to places better than zoo.

Toba Beta

There can be no high civility without a deep morality

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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 to see their faces at time the truth is revealed.

Toba Beta

?'If a man walk in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer; but if he spends his whole day as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making earth bald before her time, he is esteemed an industrious and enterprising citizen. As if a town had no interest in its forests but to cut them down!

Henry David Thoreau

Civilization today reminds me of an ape with a blowtorch playing in a room full of dynamite. It looks like the monkeys are about to operate the zoo, and the inmates are taking over the asylum.

Vance Havner

A civilization is built on what is required of men, not on that which is provided for them.

Antoine De SaintExupery

Civilization is just a slow process of learning to be kind.

Charles L. Lucas

The universal regard for money is the one hopeful fact in our civilization

George Bernard Shaw

The three great elements of modern civilization: Gunpowder, Printing, and the Protestant Religion

Thomas Carlyle