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.
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The city has become a serious menace to our civilization... It has a peculiar attraction for the immigrant.
The city is the nerve center of our civilization. It is also the storm center.
Capitalism inevitably and by virtue of the very logic of its civilization creates, educates and subsidizes a vested interest in social unrest.
The Filipino embraces civilization and lives and thrives in every clime, in contact with every people.
A German immersed in any civilization different from his own loses a weight equivalent in volume to the amount of intelligence he displaces.
Free speech is not just another value. It's the foundation of Western civilization.
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.
Trout plus bacon is one of civilization's greatest formulas; it always equals pleasure.
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.
The gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature, and poetry, and all that is spiritual.
In essence the Renaissance was simply the green end of one of civilization's hardest winters.
To the brains of our predecessors we owe all of our inheritance of civilization and culture.
Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years.
