Quotes About Civilization

Barbarism is not the inheritance of our prehistory. It is the companion that dogs our every step.

The Golden Gate Bridge was a tall orange suspension bridge that connected the city of Don Francisco to the Marin Headlands on the other side. It had been built millennia ago by some ancient civilization

Society's crude, you know . . . it's a brutal piece of work!

They civilize what's pretty By puttin' up a city Where nothin' that's Pretty can grow.... They civilize left They civilize right Till nothing is left Till nothing is right

Scratch the surface in a typical boardroom and we're all just cavemen with briefcases, hungry for a wise person to tell us stories.

The truth is, our civilization is not Christian; it is a tragic compound of great ideal and fearful practice, of loving charity and fearful clutching of possessions.

A society like ours, which professes no one religion and has allowed all religions to decay, which indulges freedom to the point of license and individualism to the point of anarchy, needs all the support that responsible, cultivated homes can furnish. I hope your generation will provide a firmer shelter for civilized standards.

I thought we were better then this." "We're human. Be thankful we've moved on from clubbing each other's brains out every five minutes.

That,' Peregrine said, 'is civilisation. Not all who were rewarded deserved to be; not all who should have been were.

But it's the greater fate of the Congregation that concerns me more. Our Occupation, and how it will end. I thought it silly of Rackamore to be troubled by such a distant concern, but I find it much harder to dismiss his fears now. What is the point of any deed, good or otherwise, if this little window of civilisation of ours will soon have its end?

We crawl out of rocks, set our calendars, make a civilisation, scrabble around for quoins, build our proud little empires, and then one day someone puts too many quoins in the same place and it all comes crashing down.

Nonetheless, we offer our forgiveness. What is the point in being a superior civilisation if you can't do that once in a while?

Peru was the Incas; it has 3,000 to 4,000 years of history.

History is the great dust-heap... a pageant and not a philosophy.

We send messages all the time, free of charge. There's a big shell out there now, 80 light-years around us. A civilization only a little more advanced than we are can pick those things up.

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.

Look at the walls of Pompeii. That's what got the internet started.

A slight daily unconscious luxury is hardly ever wanting to the dwellers in civilization; like the gentle air of a genial climate, it is a perpetual minute enjoyment.

To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization.

France, mother of arts, of warfare, and of laws.

We definitely don't want to go through another Ice Age or another natural cycle of global warming. Both happen over a long period of time. It would be disastrous for our civilization, and not just for us but many other species.

Must simplicity and humanity go under in the interest of progress? What is the most important component of civilization - is it human or mechanical? Must thought processes become involved and insincere? Must the class-struggle warp those who are involved in it?

At least in Russia, you cannot just go and tap into someone's phone conversation without a warrant issued by court. That's more or less the way a civilized society should go about fighting terrorism.

Thank goodness we don't live in medieval times, when people fought wars over ideas.