Quotes About Civilization

What school worries about the kind of civilization the children are forced to live in? The only thing officialdom is bothered about is whether or not the syllabus has been followed.

Religion is the bulwark of civilization. A people who believe nothing and therefore fear nothing will create anarchy, for themselves and others.

In the days of Prismatic Color not in the days of Adam and Eve, but when Adam was alone; when there was no smoke and color was fine, not with the refinement of early civilization art, but because of its originality; with nothing to modify it but the mist that went up, obliqueness was a variation of the perpendicular, plain to see and to account for: it is no longer that; nor did the blue-red-yellow band of incandescence that was color keep its stripe

We need to shift from an economic organizing principle for human civilization, to a humanitarian organizing principle. Making money more important than your own children is a pathological way for an individual to run their affairs, and it's a pathological way for a society to run its affairs.

I had rather face wild beasts and diseases than the perils of civilization." There is a proverb, which Tom was kind enough not to voice: be careful what you wish for. Unfortunately, not only did I get it, but so did those around me.

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

Fear had a tendency to drive away the courtesy of civilization.

The gentle art of gastronomy is a friendly one. It hurdles the language barrier, makes friends among civilized people, and warms the heart.

The mere smell of cooking can evoke a whole civilization.

The Italians were eating with forks when the French were still eating each other.

I believe with all my heart that civilization has produced nothing finer than a man or woman who thinks and practices true tolerance.

Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.

If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.

In the most civilized and progressive countries freedom of discussion is recognized as a fundamental principle.

Direct and easy communications — freedom of speech in all forms and in its broadest sense — has become vital to the very survival of a civilized humanity.

Freedom without virtue isn't freedom - it will eventually destroy a society.

We do not see faith, hope, and charity as unattainable ideals, but we use them as stout supports of a nation fighting the fight for freedom in a modern civilization.

Freedom!- is the fatuous jingle of our civilization, but only those deprived of it have the barest inkling re: what the stuff actually is.

In the long and dogged crusade that the human race has fought in favor of democracy, the ideal of liberty, of freedom, has always been the goal.

In peace, the Middle East, the ancient cradle of civilization, will become invigorated and transformed. Throughout its lands there will be freedom of movement of people, of ideas, of goods.

The human heart as modern civilization has made it is more prone to hatred than to friendship. And it is prone to hatred because it is dissatisfied.

If exposure of body is modernism, then animals are more modern than humans.

The city is not a concrete jungle, it is a human zoo.

A civilization in which there is not a continuous controversy about important issues is on the way to totalitarianism and death