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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.

Quotes by Zahi Hawass

Without winners, there wouldn't even be any civilization.

Quotes by Woody Hayes

The last struggle for our rights, the battle for our civilization, is entirely with ourselves.

Quotes by William Wells Brown

The family is the nucleus of civilization.

Quotes by Will Durant

Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.

Quotes by Will Durant

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

Quotes by Will Durant

Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.

Quotes by Will Durant

The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards.

Quotes by Walter Bagehot

Western civilization, unfortunately, does not link knowledge and morality but rather, it connects knowledge and power and makes them equivalent.

Quotes by Vine Deloria, Jr.

Civilization is unbearable, but it is less unbearable at the top.

Quotes by Timothy Leary

We have always been taught that navigation is the result of civilization, but modern archeology has demonstrated very clearly that this is not so.

Quotes by Thor Heyerdahl

Speech is civilization itself.

Thomas Mann

As civilization advances, poetry almost necessarily declines.

Quotes by Thomas Babington Macaulay

Civilization is the lamb's skin in which barbarism masquerades.

Quotes by Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Cities have always been the fireplaces of civilization, whence light and heat radiated out into the dark.

Quotes by Theodore Parker

For the liberal state to accommodate a diversity of beliefs while having few positive convictions is one of the more admirable achievements of civilization.

Quotes by Terry Eagleton

A modern civilization is only possible when it is accepted that singular beings exist and express themselves freely.

Quotes by Tahar Ben Jelloun

I think God's going to come down and pull civilization over for speeding.

Steven Wright

Through a mix of market forces and regulation, we've brought civilization to the electronic provinces.

Quotes by Steven Levy

The Industrial Revolution was another of those extraordinary jumps forward in the story of civilization.

Quotes by Stephen Gardiner

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

Quotes by Stephen Gardiner

The Nobel Prizes are much more than awards to scholars; they are a celebration of civilization, of mankind, and of what makes humans unique - that is their intellect from which springs creativity.

Quotes by Stanley B. Prusiner

I am not a Catholic; but I consider the Christian idea, which has its roots in Greek thought and in the course of the centuries has nourished all of our European civilization, as something that one cannot renounce without becoming degraded.

Quotes by Simone Weil

It is impossible to overlook the extent to which civilization is built upon a renunciation of instinct.

Quotes by Sigmund Freud

The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization.

Quotes by Sigmund Freud

Right now we're working on finishing up Pirates! for the Xbox, we're developing Civilization IV and we've got a couple other games in development that we'll tell you about soon.

Quotes by Sid Meier

Human rights is a universal standard. It is a component of every religion and every civilization.

Quotes by Shirin Ebadi

You know when civilization began? With the invention of the mirror.

Quotes by Shimon Peres

Brands are essentially forbidden from saying or associating themselves with the Olympics - something that has been commonly owned by Western Civilization since the Greeks - unless they hand over piles of cash to the Games.

Quotes by Ryan Holiday

One of the tests of the civilization of people is the treatment of its criminals.

Quotes by Rutherford B. Hayes

In order for the students' development and the outer development of civilization to coincide, we need a faculty whose interest is not limited to specialized educational practices. Rather, this faculty must be fully involved in the broader aspects of life.

Quotes by Rudolf Steiner

Civilization consists in the multiplication and refinement of human wants.

Quotes by Robert Andrews Millikan

For me, politeness is a sine qua non of civilization.

Quotes by Robert A. Heinlein

Morocco as it is is a very fine place spoiled by civilization.

Quotes by Richard Harding Davis

My play is the ultimate expression of my feeling of the twilight of Western civilization.

Quotes by Richard Foreman

Civilization... wrecks the planet from seafloor to stratosphere.

Quotes by Richard Bach

It's the Law of God that gave the stability to Christian civilization.

Quotes by Randall Terry

We need to make sure that the Voyager probes carrying a record of human civilization speeding beyond our solar system remain an introduction to the world that sent them and not an epitaph for a civilization that caused its own ruin.

Quotes by Priyamvada Natarajan

Barbarians always think of themselves as the bringers of civilization.

Quotes by Pierre Schaeffer

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?

Quotes by Pierre Schaeffer

As the publisher of the 'Tory,' I strive to defend the pillars of Western civilization against the distractions of diversity.

Quotes by Pete Hegseth

In the cold, shivering twilight, preceding the daybreak of civilization, the dominating emotion of man was fear.

Quotes by Paul P. Harris

This planet came with a set of instructions, but we seem to have misplaced them. Civilization needs a new operating system.

Quotes by Paul Hawken

Civilization is what makes you sick.

Quotes by Paul Gauguin

It is what you do from now on that will either move our civilization forward a few tiny steps, or else... begin to march us steadily backward.

Quotes by Patrick Stewart

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

Quotes by Pat Buchanan

No civilization other than that which is Christian, is worth seeking or possessing.

Quotes by Otto von Bismarck

I am especially grateful, however, to have known the fifties, before we began to poison our own civilization - or at least before the effects of the poison began to be felt.

Quotes by Orson Scott Card

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

Quotes by Oriana Fallaci

Civilization as it is known today could not have evolved, nor can it survive, without an adequate food supply.

Quotes by Norman Borlaug

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

Quotes by Norman Borlaug

Civilization depends on our expanding ability to produce food efficiently, which has markedly accelerated thanks to science and technology.

Quotes by Nina Fedoroff

In the twenty-first century, the robot will take the place which slave labor occupied in ancient civilization.

Quotes by Nikola Tesla

Arts are a luxury, proof that a civilization has risen above 'politics and war.'

Quotes by Nell Scovell

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

Quotes by Naguib Mahfouz

The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization.

Quotes by Mikhail Gorbachev

We are reminded repeatedly, often by older men, that western civilization has died on the altar of social media.

Quotes by Michelle Dean

China is a civilization pretending to be a nation.

Quotes by Michael Ledeen

The love of domination and an uncontrolled lust of arbitrary power have prevailed among all nations and perhaps in proportion to the degrees of civilization.

Quotes by Mercy Otis Warren

I think it's motivating and exalting when we defend ideas that are at the foundation of western civilization.

Quotes by Maxime Bernier

In our rich consumers' civilization we spin cocoons around ourselves and get possessed by our possessions.

Quotes by Max Lerner

I used to play a lot of 'Civilization Revolution.' It's a strategy game that takes six to eight hours. You literally have to block off a full Sunday.

Quotes by Matt Czuchry

Without civilization, we would not turn into animals, but vegetables.

Quotes by Mason Cooley

The condition of the tribes which occupy the country set apart for them in the West is highly prosperous, and encourages the hope of their early civilization. They have for the most part abandoned the hunter state and turned their attention to agricultural pursuits.

Quotes by Martin Van Buren

Undeniably, Birdseye changed our civilization.

Quotes by Mark Kurlansky

What most people don't seem to realize is that there is just as much money to be made out of the wreckage of a civilization as from the upbuilding of one.

Quotes by Margaret Mitchell

What do I think of Western civilization? I think it would be a very good idea.

Mahatma Gandhi

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

Quotes by Ludwig von Mises

I have been obsequious toward Western civilization, exaggerating its merits and, at the same time, exaggerating my own merits.

Quotes by Liu Xiaobo

Art is like a border of flowers along the course of civilization.

Quotes by Lincoln Steffens

Africa has a time-honored and brilliant civilization.

Quotes by Li Keqiang

It's very difficult to marry into another civilization.

Quotes by Leslie Caron

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?

Quotes by Lee Child

Today, human civilization is drowning in a sea of lies.

Quotes by L. Neil Smith

Right now, there's the illusion of order and civilization, but there's a tremendous amount of economic tension in this country and the educational system is constantly eroding.

Quotes by Kathryn Bigelow

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.

Quotes by Karl Kraus

The perfect normal person is rare in our civilization.

Quotes by Karen Horney

My songs are a mix of my own weird raised-by-wolves perspective and civilization.

Quotes by K. Flay

Civilization never recedes; the law of necessity ever forces it onwards.

Jules Verne

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

Quotes by Josiah Strong

The city is the nerve center of our civilization. It is also the storm center.

Quotes by Josiah Strong

Wherever an altar is found, there civilization exists.

Quotes by Joseph de Maistre

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

Quotes by Joseph A. Schumpeter

The Filipino embraces civilization and lives and thrives in every clime, in contact with every people.

Quotes by Jose Rizal

A German immersed in any civilization different from his own loses a weight equivalent in volume to the amount of intelligence he displaces.

Quotes by Jose Bergamin

Free speech is not just another value. It's the foundation of Western civilization.

Quotes by Jordan Peterson

I see in the rising crescendo of ethnic tensions, civilization clashes and the use of religious justification for acts of terror, a clear and present danger to humanity.

Quotes by Jonathan Sacks

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

Quotes by Jonathan Miles

Civilization is the making of civil persons.

Quotes by John Ruskin

I count myself a a rationalist and a skeptic with a very conscious awareness of my indebtedness to Western Christian civilization, and I am a fairly passionate defender of it.

Quotes by John Rhys-Davies

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

Quotes by John Muir

A lot of people thought of me as a threat to Western civilization.

Quotes by John Milius

A new civilization was not to be improvised by a single mind.

Quotes by John Lothrop Motley

In essence the Renaissance was simply the green end of one of civilization's hardest winters.

Quotes by John Fowles

To the brains of our predecessors we owe all of our inheritance of civilization and culture.

Quotes by John Eccles

Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years.

Quotes by John Burroughs

Civilization is a conspiracy. Modern life is the silent compact of comfortable folk to keep up pretences.

Quotes by John Buchan

Our civilization has evolved through the continuous adjustment of society to the stimulus of new knowledge.

Quotes by John Boyd Orr

The history of our civilization has been one of intermittent war.

Quotes by John Boyd Orr

No civilization on the brink of collapse has ever changed fast enough to avert collapse.

Quotes by Joel Salatin

Give me civilization. I don't want to be pampered.

Quotes by Jennifer Esposito

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