Quotes About Civilization

Galactic plankton is undoubtedly out there, but it's statistically highly likely there's also another intelligent civilisation out there somewhere. Unfortunately, the distances and time differences are so great, communication might remain impossible.

Unemployment is a great tragedy. The man who goes about hopelessly seeking work in order to earn bread for his children is a living reproach to civilization.

If we can combine our knowledge of science with the wisdom of wildness, if we can nurture civilization through roots in the primitive, man's potentialities appear to be unbounded.

The wise use of leisure, it must be conceded, is a product of civilization and education.

Every civilization must contend with an unconscious force which can block, betray, or countermand almost any conscious intention of the collectivity.

The Message of Mohammad is not a set of metaphysical phenomena. It is a complete civilization.

We are civilized animals doing uncivilized things.

If you wish to know how civilized a culture is, look at how they treat it's women.

One could judge the degree of civilization of a country by the social and political position of its women

Women's fight for equal rights is essentially a humanist and peaceful struggle for true democracy, and a higher form of civilization.

No nation, no society, no community can hold its head high and claim to be part of the civilized world if it condones the practice of discriminating against one half of humanity represented by women.

No nation, savage or civilized, save only the United States of America, has confessed its inability to protect its women save by hanging, shooting, and burning alleged offenders

As we move into the twenty-first century, women's status in society will become the standard by which to measure our progress toward civility and peace.

Social science affirms that a woman's place in society marks the level of civilization.

When primitive law has once been embodied in a Code, there is an end to what may be called its spontaneous development.

It's great to listen to men talk about sports or fights or war or even hunting sometimes, but the presence of the other, the presence of art and beauty, which crude masculinity seems to discount, is essential. Real civilization and real manhood seem to me to include those.

Colonialism subdues in many dulcet guises. It conquered under the pretext of spreading Christianity, civilization, law and order, to make the world safe for democracy.

The Nobel Prizes are much more than awards to scholars; they are a celebration of civilization, of mankind, and of what makes humans unique - that is their intellect from which springs creativity.

Paleoclimatic records show clearly that the past 10,000 years, the Holocene, is a remarkably stable period in which we went from being a few hunters and gatherers to become more sedentary agriculture-based civilizations, which then moved us to the current populated modern era.

I think that an advanced planetary civilization will modify their own planets to be more stable, to prevent asteroid impacts and dangerous climate fluctuations.

The precedent is that civilizations collapse, and everything's stacked up for this one to go, and it's a mess when it happens.

Men are at every stage of evolution, from the most barbarous to the most developed; men are found of lofty intelligence, but also of the most unevolved mentality; in one place there is a highly developed and complex civilisation, in another a crude and simple polity.

All great civilizations, in their early stages, are based on success in war.

War, we are told, shapes character; it resolves the major questions of international politics, consolidates nations, and indeed, constitutes the principal factor in the progress of civilization through its successive stages.