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When urbanity decays, civilization suffers and decays with it.

Quotes by James Norman Hall

It is the recognition of history as a record of human experience which has inevitably resulted in the inclusion of this conquest of civilization within the framework of a complete human history.

Quotes by James Henry Breasted

By 3000 B.C. the art of Egypt was so ripe and so far advanced that it is surprising to find any student of early culture proposing that the crude contemporary art of the early Babylonians is the product of a civilization earlier than that of the Nile.

Quotes by James Henry Breasted

'Business,' properly understood, is so central to every aspect of our civilization that Republicans should proudly announce that they are indeed 'the party of business.'

Quotes by Jacob K. Javits

The slum is the measure of civilization.

Quotes by Jacob Riis

The evidence of a Jewish civilization going back more than two millennia is overwhelmingly borne out in the archaeology of the region. The heritage of the Jews in Palestine is documented.

Quotes by Jack Schwartz

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

Quotes by Jack Keane

The papacy again, representing the traditional unity of European civilization, has also shown itself unable to limit effectively the push of nationalism.

Quotes by Irving Babbitt

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

Quotes by Imre Kertesz

It is only through books that we partake of the great harvest that is human civilization across the ages.

Quotes by Ibrahim Babangida

Thus lynch law held sway in the far West until civilization spread into the Territories and the orderly processes of law took its place. The emergency no longer existing, lynching gradually disappeared from the West.

Quotes by Ida B. Wells

Here the Frenchman, Spaniard, and Englishman all passed, leaving each his legend; and a brilliant and more or less feudal civilization with its aristocracy and slaves has departed with the economic system upon which it rested.

Quotes by Hervey Allen

One civilization after another has been wrecked upon the attempt to secure sufficient leadership from a single group or class.

Quotes by Herbert Hoover

What has destroyed every previous civilization has been the tendency to the unequal distribution of wealth and power.

Quotes by Henry George

Sex appeal is the keynote of our civilization.

Quotes by Henri Bergson

A riot's unchecked destruction of livelihoods and property is certainly newsworthy, threatening as it does the very possibility of civilization.

Quotes by Heather Mac Donald

For decades, universities have nurtured the most lunatic forms of feminism, denying the biological differences between males and females, promoting the idea that Western civilization is endemically sexist, and encouraging in their students ever-more-delusional forms of victimhood.

Quotes by Heather Mac Donald

If, by deferring or maybe even skipping college entirely, students were foregoing their one hope for immersion in Western civilization, there would indeed be grounds for regret.

Quotes by Heather Mac Donald

The greatest task before civilization at present is to make machines what they ought to be, the slaves, instead of the masters of men.

Quotes by Havelock Ellis

All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution.

Quotes by Havelock Ellis

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

Quotes by Havelock Ellis

It would be wonderful if I could see the end of civilization during my lifetime.

Quotes by Hayao Miyazaki

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.

Quotes by Harriet Martineau

There's still racism. Western Europe... has taken the native cultures of the Americas, the African cultures, the Asian civilization and lumped them together into The Others.

Quotes by Hans Rosling

For nearly as long as civilization has existed, patriarchy - enforced through the rights of the firstborn son - has been the organizing principle, with few exceptions.

Quotes by Hanna Rosin

Compared with members of other nations of Western civilization, the ordinary American is a rationalistic being, and there are close relations between his moralism and his rationalism. Even romanticism, transcendentalism, and mysticism tend to be, in the American culture, rational, pragmatic and optimistic.

Quotes by Gunnar Myrdal

I don't believe civilization can do a lot more than educate a person's senses.

Quotes by Grace Paley

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.

Quotes by Gerald Durrell

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.

Quotes by George Pierce Baker

George Bush doesn't represent any civilization!

Quotes by George Galloway

A writer is justly called 'universal' when he is understood within the limits of his civilization, though that be bounded by a country or an age.

Quotes by George Edward Woodberry

Cities are the crucible of civilization.

Quotes by Geoffrey West

The strength of a civilization is not measured by its ability to fight wars, but rather by its ability to prevent them.

Quotes by Gene Roddenberry

The disease of mutual distrust among nations is the bane of modern civilization.

Quotes by Franz Boas

The Lincoln Memorial is related to the toga and the civilization that wore it.

Quotes by Frank Lloyd Wright

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.

Quotes by Flora Lewis

The long march of Western civilization from pantheons of gods for every taste to one God for all has been thrown into reverse by celebrity worship to give us a plethora of ancient deities to follow.

Quotes by Florence King

The people of Egypt are an intelligent people with a glorious history who left their mark on civilization.

Quotes by Fidel Castro

Progress in civilization has been accompanied by progress in cookery.

Quotes by Fannie Farmer

When humor goes, there goes civilization.

Quotes by Erma Bombeck

Western civilization shapes the content of my films, provides me with subjects that haven't been used before.

Quotes by Eric Rohmer

A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed.

Quotes by Emil Cioran

In order for us to have a future that's exciting and inspiring, it has to be one where we're a space-bearing civilization.

Quotes by Elon Musk

From first to last the civilization of America has been bound up with its physical environment.

Quotes by Ellsworth Huntington

Tenderness has created the first 'social order' - that of the mother with her offspring. Through motherliness, woman later makes her great contributions to civilization.

Quotes by Ellen Key

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

Quotes by Elie Ducommun

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

Quotes by Edmund Hillary

I remind everybody that the Sabbath was the Jewish gift to civilization.

Quotes by Edgar Bronfman, Sr.

Few can contemplate without a sense of exhilaration the splendid achievements of practical energy and technical skill, which, from the latter part of the seventeenth century, were transforming the face of material civilization, and of which England was the daring, if not too scrupulous, pioneer.

Quotes by E. F. Schumacher

You can't leave civilization behind entirely.

Quotes by Dirk Benedict

No matter what we call it, poison is still poison, death is still death, and industrial civilization is still causing the greatest mass extinction in the history of the planet.

Quotes by Derrick Jensen

Civilization can never be sustainable.

Quotes by Derrick Jensen

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

Quotes by Dayananda Saraswati

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.

Quotes by David Roberts

Partners from the Islamic world are of particular importance. Indeed, they have huge incentives to be involved, as the ongoing struggles are generally not clashes between civilizations. Rather, what we are seeing is more accurately a clash within a civilization: that of the Islamic world.

Quotes by David Petraeus

The ultimate tendency of civilization is towards barbarism.

Quotes by David Hare

It's a difficult business, creating a new, alternative civilization.

Quotes by David Graeber

When tillage begins, other arts follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of human civilization.

Quotes by Daniel Webster

I think governments are the cancer of civilization.

Quotes by Chuck D

Every great movement in the history of Western civilization from the Carolingian age to the nineteenth century has been an international movement which owed its existence and its development to the cooperation of many different peoples.

Quotes by Christopher Dawson

The sovereign state has in our times become a lethal danger to human civilization because technical developments enable it to employ an infinite number and variety of means of destruction.

Quotes by Christian Lous Lange

Public transportation is like a magnifying glass that shows you civilization up close.

Quotes by Chris Gethard

How a society treats its disabled is the true measure of a civilization.

Quotes by Chen Guangcheng

A pioneer destroys things and calls it civilization.

Quotes by Charles Marion Russell

I have seen the science I worshiped, and the aircraft I loved, destroying the civilization I expected them to serve.

Quotes by Charles Lindbergh

Real freedom lies in wildness, not in civilization.

Quotes by Charles Lindbergh

Real freedom lies in wildness, not civilization.

Quotes by Charles Lindbergh

Civilization is hideously fragile and there's not much between us and the horrors underneath, just about a coat of varnish.

Quotes by Carrie Snow

If civilization had been left in female hands we would still be living in grass huts.

Quotes by Camille Paglia

Civilization and profit go hand in hand.

Quotes by Calvin Coolidge

Civilization is the distance man has placed between himself and his excreta.

Quotes by Brian Aldiss

If the Earth gets hit by an asteroid, it's game over. It's control-alt-delete for civilization.

Quotes by Bill Nye

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

Quotes by Bill Kristol

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).

Quotes by Ben Shapiro

While the West tries to turn its civilization into cultural variety hour, Islam tries to turn Muslim lands into a cultural monolith. The same West that justifies the rap culture thinks that every Muslim terrorist bombing is an expression of economic angst or social alienation.

Quotes by Ben Shapiro

If any civilization is to survive, it is the morality of altruism that men have to reject.

Quotes by Ayn Rand

Christianity is the enemy of liberty and civilization.

Quotes by August Bebel

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.

Quotes by Arthur Keith

Tolerance is held to be a condition of mind which is encouraged by, and is necessary for, civilization.

Quotes by Arthur Keith

What is the thread of western civilization that distinguished its course in history? It has to do with the preoccupation of western man with his outward command and his sense of superiority.

Quotes by Arthur Erickson

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

Quotes by Arnold J. Toynbee

I do not believe that civilizations have to die because civilization is not an organism. It is a product of wills.

Quotes by Arnold J. Toynbee

To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization.

Quotes by Arnold J. Toynbee

A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within.

Quotes by Ariel Durant

Education is the transmission of civilization.

Quotes by Ariel Durant

The salt of any interesting civilization is mixture.

Quotes by Antonio Tabucchi

A civilization is built on what is required of men, not on that which is provided for them.

Quotes by Antoine de Saint-Exupery

My whole thing is I'm not into civilization as a whole.

Quotes by Andy Hurley

Dietary fat, whether saturated or not, is not a cause of obesity, heart disease or any other chronic disease of civilization.

Quotes by Andrew Weil

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

Quotes by Amitava Kumar

In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.

Quotes by Ambrose Bierce

Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization.

Quotes by Ambrose Bierce

That contagion idea is so relevant and shows how quickly civilization could self-destruct.

Quotes by Alycia Debnam-Carey

Architecture belongs to culture, not to civilization.

Quotes by Alvar Aalto

Without adventure civilization is in full decay.

Quotes by Alfred North Whitehead

People now know how important it is to build secure systems to underlie our civilization.

Quotes by Alex Stamos

We're becoming a planet of a thousand new major cities. The economy of the 21st century is a city-building economy. It's within our power to make it a carbon zero one, too; and to be blunt, civilization depends on our success.

Quotes by Alex Steffen

You know, our sense of individuality is just the number one target of civilization.

Quotes by Alan Rudolph

The writer in western civilization has become not a voice of his tribe, but of his individuality. This is a very narrow-minded situation.

Quotes by Aharon Appelfeld

Syria is the proud heir of an ancient civilization that has a unique spectrum of minorities that encompasses Muslims and Christians of various denominations. There are at least ten such ethnic and religious groups.

Quotes by Ahmed Zewail

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

Quotes by Adrienne Clarkson

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