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.
A riot's unchecked destruction of livelihoods and property is certainly newsworthy, threatening as it does the very possibility of civilization.
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.
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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.
The greatest task before civilization at present is to make machines what they ought to be, the slaves, instead of the masters of men.
All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution.
The more rapidly a civilization progresses, the sooner it dies for another to rise in its place.
It would be wonderful if I could see the end of civilization during my lifetime.
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.
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.
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.
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,...
I don't believe civilization can do a lot more than educate a person's senses.
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.
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.
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.
The strength of a civilization is not measured by its ability to fight wars, but rather by its ability to prevent them.
The disease of mutual distrust among nations is the bane of modern civilization.
The Lincoln Memorial is related to the toga and the civilization that wore it.
