Civilization Quotes

We send messages all the time, free of charge. There's a big shell out there now, 80 light-years around us. A civilization only a little more advanced than we are can pick those things up.

Frank Drake

TimeFreeCivilizationNowMoreOut

I have increasingly, over the years, felt that religion today does our civilization more harm than good.

Mary Douglas

GoodTodayReligionCivilizationOur

To be complex does not mean to be fragmented. This is the paradox and the genius of our Canadian civilization.

Adrienne Clarkson

GeniusCivilizationMeanComplexOur

If men do not now succeed in abolishing war, civilization and mankind are doomed.

Ludwig von Mises

MenWarSucceedCivilizationNow

Let no one refer to the sword of Napoleon I as the instrument of progress and civilization!

Elie Ducommun

ProgressSwordCivilizationNapoleon

The city has become a serious menace to our civilization... It has a peculiar attraction for the immigrant.

Josiah Strong

CitySeriousCivilizationBecomeOur

All of the philosophers I studied were white (with a few Eastern exceptions), and, for that matter, they were all male. Africa, the cradle of civilization, seemed to have no footing in the highest form of human thought.

Walter Mosley

ThoughtWhiteCivilizationAfrica

Trout plus bacon is one of civilization's greatest formulas; it always equals pleasure.

Jonathan Miles

CivilizationAlwaysPleasureBacon

A civilization which has taken over the world cannot be said to be dying.

V. S. Naipaul

WorldCivilizationSaidDyingOver

It's too hard a life for me. I could only do it - check out in that sense - if I checked out somewhere that was luxurious and within hailing distance of civilization.

Derek Jacobi

LifeMeDistanceCivilizationHard

When the faith dies, the culture it produced begins to die, then the civilization goes, and, then, the population.

Pat Buchanan

FaithCultureDieCivilizationGoes

History shows us that other highly developed forms of civilization have collapsed. Who knows whether the same fate does not await our own?

Christian Lous Lange

HistoryFateCivilizationSameOwn

There were centuries when civilization had no theater.

Orson Welles

CivilizationTheaterWereCenturies

He would see civilization in danger of perishing under the oppression of a gigantic paradox: he would see multitudes of people starving in the midst of plenty, and nations preparing for war although pledged to peace.

Arthur Henderson

PeaceWarPeopleCivilizationSee

United States and our allied partners need to wake up. ISIS is at war with us and civilization.

Jack Keane

WarWake UpCivilizationNeedUpUs

Civilization, we shall find, like Universalism and Christianity, is anti evolutionary in its effects; it works against the laws and conditions which regulated the earlier stages of man's ascent.

Arthur Keith

ManFindCivilizationAgainstLaws

I have not changed my opinion that the Holocaust is a trauma of European civilization.

Imre Kertesz

OpinionHolocaustCivilizationTrauma

Anglo-Saxon civilization has taught the individual to protect his own rights; American civilization will teach him to respect the rights of others.

William Jennings Bryan

RespectAmericanCivilizationProtect

Civilization is so hard on the body that some have called it a disease, despite the arts that keep puny bodies alive to a greater average age, and our greater protection from contagious and germ diseases.

G. Stanley Hall

AgeBodyAliveCivilizationHard

You think you're in another civilization, another time, and then you see antennas coming out of these hovels, and your mouth falls open when you see the descendants of the Incas shouting 'Columbo! Columbo!'

Peter Falk

TimeThinkYouMouthCivilization

Yet, history has shown that if material force can defeat some ideologies it can no longer obliterate a civilization without destabilizing the whole planet.

Abdelaziz Bouteflika

HistoryDefeatCivilizationWithout

If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.

Thomas Jefferson

FreeCivilizationWillNeverNation

Surely the only sound foundation for a civilization is a sound state of mind.

E. M. Forster

MindFoundationCivilizationSound

The destiny of world civilization depends upon providing a decent standard of living for all mankind.

Norman Borlaug

WorldDestinyCivilizationLiving

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