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Civilization Quotes

Western civilization is, no doubt, predominantly on the side of secular relativism. That is not true in the Islamic world, where faith dominates.

Faith World Doubt Civilization True

The old interests of aristocracy - the romance of action, the exalted passions of chivalry and war - faded into the background, and their place was taken by the refined and intimate pursuits of peace and civilization.

Lytton Strachey

Peace War Action Place Civilization

Civilization in its present form hasn't got long.

Present Long Civilization Got Form

Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.

Herbert Spencer

Progress Civilization Coherent Toward

All over the world the wildlife that I write about is in grave danger. It is being exterminated by what we call the progress of civilization.

Progress World Civilization Wildlife

Back through the ages of barbarism and civilization, in all tongues, we find this instinctive pleasure in the imitative action that is the very essence of all drama.

George Pierce Baker

Action Back Find Drama Civilization

Our language, history, and civilization shine out across every continent.

Emmanuel Macron

History Shine Language Civilization

Perhaps the greatest Maya mystery of all is the cause of the civilization's abrupt decline. The last dated stela erected at Tikal was put up in A.D. 869; the last anywhere in the Maya world, in 909.

World Mystery Civilization Up Last

Feminists are in an untenable position, defending something they no longer believe in, and which history will force them to recognize was destructive of most of the central pillars of civilization. I'm just the first one to point it out publicly.

History Believe Civilization Will

That is why I come forward tonight without any political label, without any bias, but just simply as an Englishman to say to you: a crime is being committed against civilization.

Forward Political You Civilization

Patriotism is an indispensable weapon in the defense of civilization against barbarism.

Patriotism Civilization Against

The gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature, and poetry, and all that is spiritual.

Nature Spiritual Poetry Civilization

Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos.

Chaos Liberty Civilization Order

The only actual solution is the eventual collapse and demise of civilization... I think it needs to happen, but no one, not even me, really wants it to happen.

Me Think Solution Civilization Only

Our civilization is still in a middle stage, scarcely beast, in that it is no longer wholly guided by instinct; scarcely human, in that it is not yet wholly guided by reason.

Theodore Dreiser

Beast Civilization Human Reason Our

No civilization has a monopoly on tolerance; each is capable of bigotry.

Tolerance Civilization Capable Each

Indeed it is the protean ability of Western civilization to be self-critical and self-correcting - not only in producing wealth but over the whole range of human activities - that constitutes its most decisive superiority over any of its rivals.

Wealth Civilization Human Ability

The center of Western culture is Greece, and we have never lost our ties with the architectural concepts of that ancient civilization.

Stephen Gardiner

Culture Lost Civilization Never Our

We know we need civilization and laws and procedures, but isn't it frustrating? Wouldn't it be great if we could just do what we needed to do?

Great Civilization Know Need Laws

The statistics of life out there and the statistics of intelligent beings and advanced civilization is a certainty, the way I look at it. that It has not been accepted, because we've been in an anthropocentric era.

Life Look Statistics Civilization

Had the Hebrews not been disturbed in their progress a thousand and more years ago, they would have solved all the great problems of civilization which are being solved now under all the difficulties imposed by the spirit of the Middle Ages.

Isaac Mayer Wise

Great Progress Problems Civilization

The first requisite of civilization is that of justice.

Justice Civilization First Requisite

Cities are the crucible of civilization.

Civilization Crucible Cities

Civilization consists in the multiplication and refinement of human wants.

Robert Andrews Millikan

Civilization Human Wants Refinement

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