Quotes About Civilization

The family dinner table is the cornerstone of civilization and those who 'graze' from refrigerators or in front of the television sets are doomed to remain in a state of savagery.

If the family goes, so goes our civilization.

To us the family is the cornerstone of civilization and must ever be. It is the foundation of proper human relationships.

The dinner table is a rite of civilization and we need to participate in that to keep our families together, to keep our communities together.

The highest test of the civilization of any race is in its willingness to extend a helping hand to the less fortunate.

Artificial Intelligence leaves no doubt that it wants its audiences to enter a realm of pure fantasy when it identifies one of the last remaining islands of civilization as New Jersey.

My father used to say that, through culture, humans effectively domesticated themselves.

It is impossible to found a civilization on fear and hatred and cruelty. It would never endure.' 'Why not?' 'It would have no vitality. It would disintegrate. It would commit suicide.

The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.

Americans' great and secret fear is that America may turn out to be a phenomenon rather than a civilization.

Let us dedicate ourselves to what the Greeks wrote so many years ago: to tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world.

The perfect normal person is rare in our civilization.

Unless there is a vast alteration in manís civilization as it stumbles along today,man will not be here very long.

The progress of civilization enables each one of us to manifest unsuspected virtues or new vices, which make us either dearer or more unbearable to our friends.

La vera terra dei barbari non è quella che non ha mai conosciuto l'arte, ma quella che, disseminata di capolavori, non sa né apprezzarli né conservarli.

Humankind now produces in two days the same amount of data it took us from the dawn of civilisation until 2003 to generate.

The world today is indebted to us for the benefits of civilization. They stole our arts and sciences from Africa. Then why should we be ashamed of ourselves?

Somebody said (but if it were not said, then I say it now), that " the laws of our civilization have but one interpretation for the poor and ignorant and for those of wealth and power, there are many interpretations, hence the poor are generally convicted on the one, while the rich are freed on the many interpretations.

The race needs workers at this time, not plagiarists, sopists and mere imitators; but men and women who are able to create, to originate and improve, and thus make an independent racial contribution to the world and civilisation.

As many times as Hell had been created, history stood as indisputable proof that the mass of humanity was good. People built more than they burned, created more than they destroyed, not by a little but by a massive surplus

Divine Nature gave the fields, human art built the cities.

The institution of marriage in all societies is a pattern within which the strains put by civilization on males and females alike must be resolved, a pattern within which men must learn, in return for a variety of elaborate rewards, new forms in which sexual spontaneity is still possible, and women must learn to discipline their receptivity to a thousand other considerations.

By focusing on the male violence against women, coming to the surface in rape, and by trying to make this a public issue, feminists have unwittingly touched one of the taboos of civilised society, namely that this is a 'peaceful society'. … The very fact that rape has now become a public issue had helped to tear the veil from the facade of so-called civilised society and has laid bare its hidden, brutal, violent foundations.

Maleness and femaleness are not biological givens, but rather the results of a long historical process. In each historic epoch maleness and femaleness are differently defined. The definition depends on the principle mode of production in these epochs.