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Civilization Quotes

Well, we can't afford blindness anymore. There are tens of thousands of thugs who loathe liberty and love death, and want to annihilate Western civilization.

Love Death Liberty Civilization Want

The more rapidly a civilization progresses, the sooner it dies for another to rise in its place.

Rise Place Civilization More Sooner

Poland is not East or West. Poland is at the center of European civilization. It has contributed mightily to that civilization. It is doing so today by being magnificently unreconciled to oppression.

Today Doing Civilization Oppression

It has been well said that tea is suggestive of a thousand wants, from which spring the decencies and luxuries of civilization.

Tea Spring Civilization Said Well

The only people who steal are thieves, and that's a very small percentage of civilization. Most people want to have some way to make the economic transaction valid. They want to return the favor, if you will... return the benefit and reciprocate.

Michael Nesmith

People Small You Civilization Want

Is it not a grotesque civilization which sends missionaries across the sea to save the souls of the heathen, and yet permits conditions at home that debauch the children at our very doors?

Home Sea Children Doors Civilization

Our political system continues to produce human rights disasters and social crises, thereby not only constricting China's own development but also limiting the progress of all of human civilization.

Progress Political Civilization Human

Not a single piece of material culture - not a single object - has been found at Giza that can be interpreted to come from a lost civilization.

Culture Lost Civilization Single

Capitalism inevitably and by virtue of the very logic of its civilization creates, educates and subsidizes a vested interest in social unrest.

Joseph A. Schumpeter

Capitalism Logic Civilization Virtue

Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime.

Peace War Civilization Crime Virtue

I started the Stress Reduction Clinic in 1979. The idea of bringing Buddhist meditation without the Buddhism into the mainstream of medicine was tantamount to the Visigoths being at the gates about to tear down the citadel of Western civilization.

Stress Medicine Down Civilization

Everywhere in the universe, the periodic table has the same basic structure. Even if an alien civilization's table weren't plotted out in the castle-with-turrets shape we humans favor, their spiral or pyramidal or whatever-shaped periodic table would naturally pause after 118 elements.

Universe Table Alien Civilization

Beneficience removes evils, introduces the practice of virtue, and adds to general welfare and civilization.

Dayananda Saraswati

Practice Civilization Virtue Welfare

A civilization, a culture, cannot survive without passion, cannot be saved without passion.

Passion Culture Survive Civilization

I think governments are the cancer of civilization.

Think Civilization Cancer I Think

Today's interpretations of religion are often backward and contradict the needs of civilization.

Today Religion Civilization Needs

Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor.

Arnold J. Toynbee

History Civilization Movement Voyage

If a test of civilization be sought, none can be so sure as the condition of that half of society over which the other half has power.

Harriet Martineau

Power Society Civilization Test Over

Without adventure civilization is in full decay.

Alfred North Whitehead

Adventure Civilization Without Full

Responsibility has become the fundamental imperative in modern civilization, and it should be an unavoidable criterion to assess and evaluate human actions, including, in a special way, development activities.

Responsibility Civilization Become

Has it struck you that the music which is regarded as the most sublime in western civilization, which is the music of Bach, is called baroque?

Pierre Schaeffer

Music You Civilization Most Sublime

Progress in civilization has been accompanied by progress in cookery.

Progress Civilization Been Cookery

Coal, oil and natural gas have lit homes and powered machinery for centuries, driving civilization forward. But as human development accelerated, the unsustainability of such energy became apparent.

Energy Forward Driving Civilization

There is precious little in civilization to appeal to a Yeti.

Civilization Little Precious Appeal

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