Quotes About Civilization

I would suggest that barbarism be considered as a permanent and universal human characteristic which becomes more or less pronounced according to the play of circumstances.

No civilisation can claim to have a monopoly on universal values and no one can claim to be always faithful to his own values.

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.

With the emergence of civilization, the rate of change shifted from hundreds of thousands of years to millennia. With the emergence of science as a way of knowing the universe, the rate of change shifted to centuries.

In any case, in so far as our knowledge of the universe carries us, the advent of civilization for the first time on our globe represents the highest ascent of the life processes to which evolution had anywhere attained.

I have a fascination with Egypt. It's the greatest civilization. When the rest of the world was still in darkness, there were universities in Egypt and there were monetary systems, the pyramids.

My American undergraduate education probably gave me a better idea of the fundamentals of what European civilization is about, better than the undergraduate education you get at most European universities.

The task of a university is the creation of the future, so far as rational thought and civilized modes of appreciation can affect the issue.

In 1957, I was studying the Pleiades star cluster at Harvard University's radio observatory. On one occasion, we saw an added feature in the data. It turned out to be an amateur radio enthusiast near the observatory, but at the time, I thought we had detected clear evidence of another civilisation.

For me, 'Moby-Dick' is more than the greatest American novel ever written; it is a metaphysical survival manual - the best guidebook there is for a literate man or woman facing an impenetrable unknown: the future of civilization in this storm-tossed 21st century.

Private enterprise in the history of civilization has never led large, expensive, dangerous projects with unknown risks. That has never happened because when you combine all these factors, you cannot create a capital market valuation of that activity.

What feminism calls patriarchy is simply civilization , an abstract system designed by men but augmented and now co-owned by women.

I expect Woman will be the last thing civilized by Man.

I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.

Women know what men have long forgotten. The ultimate economic and spiritual unit of any civilization is still the family.

Among human beings, the subjection of women is much more complete at a certain level of civilization than it is among savages. And the subjection is always reinforced by morality.

Women know the damnation of charity because the habit of civilization has always been to throw them cheap alms rather than give them good wages.

I think the degree of a nation's civilisation may be measured by the degree of enlightenment of its women.

Sentiment is the mightiest force in civilization; not sentimentality, but sentiment. Women will bring this into politics. Home, sweet home, is as powerful on the hustings as at the fireside.

Despite all the progress of civilization, women have remained exactly as they emerged from the hand of Nature.

We need to shift from an economic to a humanitarian organizing principle for human civilization. And women, en masse, should be saying so.

The peoples furthest from civilization are the ones where equality between man and woman are furthest apart-and we consider this one of the signs of savagery.

In a culture that gives men irresponsible power and women powerless responsibility, the advancement of civilization cannot be a serious goal.

What is civilization? I answer, the power of good women.