Civilization Quotes
Thoughts on what societies leave behind.
These lines take a wide view of civilization, from questioning claims about lost ancient cultures to noting how useful ideas can curdle over time. Related reading includes History quotes.
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...
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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?
As the publisher of the 'Tory,' I strive to defend the pillars of Western civilization against the distractions of diversity.
In the cold, shivering twilight, preceding the daybreak of civilization, the dominating emotion of man was fear.
This planet came with a set of instructions, but we seem to have misplaced them. Civilization needs a new operating system.
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.
When the faith dies, the culture it produced begins to die, then the civilization goes, and, then, the population.
No civilization other than that which is Christian, is worth seeking or possessing.
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.
A civilization, a culture, cannot survive without passion, cannot be saved without passion.
Civilization as it is known today could not have evolved, nor can it survive, without an adequate food supply.
The destiny of world civilization depends upon providing a decent standard of living for all mankind.
Civilization depends on our expanding ability to produce food efficiently, which has markedly accelerated thanks to science and technology.
In the twenty-first century, the robot will take the place which slave labor occupied in ancient civilization.
Arts are a luxury, proof that a civilization has risen above 'politics and war.'
Today's interpretations of religion are often backward and contradict the needs of civilization.
The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization.
