Quotes About Civilization

There is a higher form of patriotism than nationalism, and that higher form is not limited by the boundaries of one's country; but by a duty to mankind to safeguard the trust of civilization.

No nation can truly develop unless fanaticism, primitive superstitions and metaphysical non-sense are eradicated.

The first and fundamental law of Nature, which is, to seek peace and follow it.

for civilization to survive, the human race has to remain civilized.

Where there is Peace, there is Culture; Where there is Culture, there is Peace.

Peace on earth would mean the end of civilization as we know it.

By peace our condition has been improved in the pursuit of civilized life.

Modern civilisation is complicated and artificial. Simple folk live in a world of love and peace. Let no one hate another or harm another.

Is it progress if a cannibal uses a knife and fork?

We have before us the glorious opportunity to inject a new dimension of love into the veins of our civilization.

Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime.

With men, the state of nature is not a state of peace, but war.

Our civilization is now in the transition stage between the age of warring empires and a new age of world unity and peace.

Civilisation is hooped together, brought Under a rule, under the semblance of peace By manifold illusion.

Civilization survives on the constant discovery of amity and an equal supply of damnation.

Unless man has the wit and the grit to build his civilization on something better than material power, it is surely idle to talk of plans for a stable peace.

One of the primary purposes of civilization - and certainly its primary strength - is the guarantee that family life can flourish in unity, peace, and order.

If peace is to come to earth through change in man's environment, instead of through change in man himself, it will never come. -- Philip Mauro in "The Number of Man the Climax of Civilization

The dog which remembers only to bark and not to bite, and is led through the streets as a lady's pet, is only a degenerate wolf.

I like to think that someone will trace how the deepest thinking of India made its way to Greece and from there to the philosophy of our times

The theoretical understanding of the world, which is the aim of philosophy, is not a matter of great practical importance to animals, or to savages, or even to most civilised men.

Without man and his potential for moral progress, the whole of reality would be a mere wilderness, a thing in vain, and have no final purpose.

Barbarism is needed every four or five hundred years to bring the world back to life. Otherwise it would die of civilization.

Comfort is the only thing our civilization can give us.