You know when civilization began? With the invention of the mirror.
Shimon Peres
MirrorYouCivilizationKnowBegan
All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution.
Havelock Ellis
TimeRevolutionCivilizationBecome
Our own civilization has lost its way, and this makes us even more vulnerable to Islamist nihilism.
Tom Tancredo
LostCivilizationWayMoreOwnUs
Civilization is hideously fragile and there's not much between us and the horrors underneath, just about a coat of varnish.
Carrie Snow
CivilizationCoatFragileUsJust
We are reminded repeatedly, often by older men, that western civilization has died on the altar of social media.
Michelle Dean
MenSocial MediaMediaCivilization
I think if I were to express my wish, it would be that we are more regionally self-reliant. And I don't mean people being survivalists, I mean regionally self-reliant. So that you have these individual cells. The idea of having different solutions in different areas, so that we have a very robust, durable civilization.
Daniel Suarez
PeopleThinkWishYouCivilization
Though I do regard the Inquisition in general and the burning of Giordano Bruno in particular as blots on the history of the Roman Catholic Church, I am far from being actuated by hatred of that church, and in fact cannot imagine that European civilization would have developed or survived without it.
Louis MacNeice
HistoryI AmChurchCivilizationFar
It is possible to take the story of Noah figuratively, although virtually every Near East ancient civilization has its own version of the flood story (including the amoral epic of Gilgamesh).
Ben Shapiro
StoryCivilizationPossibleOwnTake
No one ceases to be a man, no one forfeits his rights to civilization merely by being more or less uncultured, and since the Filipino is regarded as a fit citizen when he is asked to pay taxes or shed his blood to defend the fatherland, why must this fitness be denied him when the question arises of granting him some right?
Jose Rizal
FitnessManCivilizationCitizenWhy
Jesus wept; Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived the grace of present civilization.
Victor Hugo
SmileGracePresentCivilization
I happen to be a big fan of Western civilization; I think it beats the hell out of tyranny and starvation.
Jordan Peterson
ThinkHellTyrannyCivilizationOut
A modern civilization is only possible when it is accepted that singular beings exist and express themselves freely.
Tahar Ben Jelloun
CivilizationPossibleModernExist
Civilization can never be sustainable.
Derrick Jensen
CivilizationNeverSustainable
The habit of collecting, of attachment to things, is an essential human trait. But Western civilization put collecting on a pedestal by inventing museums. Museums are about representing power. It could be the king's power or, later, people's power.
Orhan Pamuk
PowerHabitKingPeopleCivilization
This freedom of political discussion on the highest level is something which Western civilization has in common with that of classical antiquity, but with no other.
Christopher Dawson
FreedomPoliticalCivilizationLevel
I think almost everything about humans and human civilization is explained better by evolution than anything else.
Naval Ravikant
ThinkBetterEvolutionCivilization
I do not believe that civilizations have to die because civilization is not an organism. It is a product of wills.
Arnold J. Toynbee
BelieveDieCivilizationProduct
Culture is the tacit agreement to let the means of subsistence disappear behind the purpose of existence. Civilization is the subordination of the latter to the former.
Karl Kraus
CulturePurposeCivilizationBehind
Without winners, there wouldn't even be any civilization.
Woody Hayes
CivilizationWinnersWithoutEven
It is only through books that we partake of the great harvest that is human civilization across the ages.
Ibrahim Babangida
GreatCivilizationHarvestHuman
There is every indication that we are to see new developments of the power of aggregated capital to serve civilization, and that the new developments will be made right here in America.
William Graham Sumner
PowerAmericaNewCivilizationWill
I consider that there are different degrees of civilization and there are many different ways of expressing it. But one is civilized or is not.
Flora Lewis
CivilizationDifferentExpressing
As the publisher of the 'Tory,' I strive to defend the pillars of Western civilization against the distractions of diversity.
Pete Hegseth
DiversityCivilizationStriveDefend
Civilization and profit go hand in hand.
Calvin Coolidge
ProfitGoCivilizationHand
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