Quotes About Civilization

One book that has influenced the writer very strongly is Winwood Reade's Martyrdom of Man...It is still an extraordinarily inspiring presentation of human history as one consistent process.

The cultured man is an artist, an artist in humanity.

As men begin to grow civilized, they cease to be satisfied with mere taboos.

And much it grieved my heart to think What man has made of man.

Civilization changes man on the outside. Meditation softens him within, through and through.

For himself, then. For his idea of the world, a world in which men do not use shovels to beat corpses into a more convenient shape for processing.

Men play at tragedy because they do not believe in the reality of the tragedy which is actually being staged in the civilised world

It is Christian culture that has created Western man and the Western way of life.

Books are the building blocks of civilization and a people without books are a people without history, a people with no story older than the tales of the oldest man or woman.

Our whole civilization rests on the fact that men have always succeeded in beating off the attack of the re-distributors.

There are two things civilized Man should never see being made: Sausages and Laws.

The basic problem is that our civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man.

Man developed in Africa. He has not continued to do so there.

I describe not men, but manners; not an individual, but a species.

Man arose to high moral vision two thousand years before the Hebrew nation was born.

Mathematics is as old as Man.

It was a profound saying of Wilhelm Humboldt, that 'Man is man only by means of speech, but in order to invent speech he must be already man.'

If there is to be any permanent improvement in man and any better social order, it must come mainly from the education and humanizing of man.

For all of higher civilization's recorded history, becoming a man was defined overwhelmingly as taking responsibility for a family.

Without men, civilization would last until the oil needed changing.

Civilization has run on ahead of the soul of man, and is producing faster than he can think and give thanks.

The origin of civilization is man's determination to do nothing for himself which he can get done for him.

Men fancied there might be other men upon Mars, perhaps inferior to themselves and ready to welcome a missionary enterprise.

A man doesn't save a century, or a civilization, but a militant party wedded to a principle can.