Quotes About Civilization

He who writes well runs the civilization. Everyone else does the grunt work.

With the fall of the empire, Art, Philosophy and decent drains all vanished from the West.

India is a civilization where the principle and philosophy of sacrifice is ingrained as part of our upbringing.

Does the thoughtful man suppose that...the present experiment in civilization is the last world we will see?

There have been two great narcotics in European civilisation: Christianity and alcohol.

The history of man is a must read poetry.

The world is a giant zoo. The trouble is, not all of the animals are civilized.

Poetry is priceless.... a way of keeping yourself feeling rich and civilized even when you're quite poor.

Architecture, sculpture, painting, music, and poetry, may truly be called the efflorescence of civilised life.

We hold that the most wonderful and splendid proof of genius is a great poem produced in a civilized age.

We have the ability to be the Athens of modern times as opposed to the militaristic Sparta. I remind you that the Athenians wrote poetry. The Spartans did not.

Great Music, it said, and Great Poetry would like quieten Modern Youth down and make Modern Youth more Civilized. Civilized my syphilised yarbles.

A Grecian history, perfectly written should be a complete record of the rise and progress of poetry, philosophy, and the arts.

Poetry is one of the essential structures of civilization - carrying myth, ritual, 'tales of the tribe' and the essence of language.

In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.

The commonwealth of Athens is become a forest of beasts.

The body politic, as well as the human body, begins to die as soon as it is born, and carries itself the causes of its destruction.

Social history might be defined negatively as the history of a people with the politics left out

A great European federative system alone can be favourable to the development of civilisation.

If we were to place our power at the service of our imaginations rather than our primate politics we would create a civilization worthy of the name.

Man is by nature a civic animal.

We can tentatively credit capitalist civilization with a positive, if very geographically uneven, record in the struggle against disease.

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

History is the heart of humanity.