Quotes About Civilization

British physician, West African Countries and Peoples Man's place is higher than the sky. Respect for man is the underlying spirit of civilization.

As we become civilized we are governed less by persons and more by principles. . . . The best of all leaders is the man who teaches people to lead themselves.

Man's most intelligent age may have gotten lost in history.

Spiritual awakening is the most essential thing in man's life, and it is the sole purpose of being. Is not civilization, in all its tragic forms, a supreme motive for spiritual awakening?

By vulgarity I mean that vice of civilization which makes man ashamed of himself and his next of kin, and pretend to be somebody else.

She is still less civilized than man, largely because she has not been educated.

When men can no longer be theists, they must, if they are civilized, become humanists.

The sum total of each man's giving determines the standard of man's civilization.

And we owe science to the combined energies of individual men of genius, rather than to any tendency to progress inherent in civilization.

Man's biological weakness is the condition of human culture.

I have, for many years past, contemplated the noble races of red men who are now spread over these trackless forests and boundless prairies, melting away at the approach of civilization.

If men do not now succeed in abolishing war, civilization and mankind are doomed.

To kill a man will be considered as disgusting [in the twentieth century] as we in this day consider it disgusting to eat one.

What is the thread of western civilization that distinguished its course in history? It has to do with the preoccupation of western man with his outward command and his sense of superiority.

When the real history of the world is written, it will show god's dealings with men, and the place the gospel has played in the rise and fall of nations.

Five thousand years have added no improvement to the hive of the bee, nor to the house of the beaver; but look at the habitations and the achievements of men!

The two World Wars came in part, like much modern literature and art, because men, whose nature is to tire of everything in turn... tired of common sense and civilization.

The history of man is dominated by, and reflects, the amount of available energy

...men can only be highly civilized while other men, inevitably less civilized, are there to guard and feed them.

Western civilization is a loaded gun pointed at the head of this planet.

For those wounded by civilization, yoga is the most healing salve.

Civilization has been thrust upon me . . . and it has not added one whit to my love for truth, honesty, and generosity. —LUTHER STANDING BEAR, OGLALA SIOUX, 1868–1937 On

Yet the Romans did something the heart-ripping Aztecs and the Spanish burners didn't do … they killed people for fun! The Romans made murder into a sport. They built wonderful buildings like the Colosseum, filled them with happy Romans and then massacred thousands of people and animals for entertainment.

For the liberal state to accommodate a diversity of beliefs while having few positive convictions is one of the more admirable achievements of civilization.