Quotes About Civilization

A world government with powers adequate to guarantee security is not a remote ideal for the distant future. It is an urgent necessity if our civilization is to survive.

Rome was great in arms, in government, in law.

Despotism is a legitimate mode of government in dealing with barbarians, provided the end be their improvement.

We need a government, alas, because of the nature of humans.

If we wish our civilization to survive we must break with the habit of deference to great men.

Man's great power of thinking, remembering, and communicating are responsible for the evolution of civilization.

The great changes in civilisation and society have been wrought by deeply held beliefs and passion rather than by a process of rational deduction.

God isn't compatible with machinery and scientific medicine and universal happiness. You must make your choice. Our civilization has chosen machinery and medicine and happiness.

Civilized people have exchanged some part of their chances of happiness for a measure of security.

I was irrevocably betrothed to laughter, the sound of which has always seemed to me the most civilised music in the world.

When nobody interferes with what you wear and how you wear, you are living in a civilised country at least on the matter of clothes! Happiness and freedom are often the same thing!

All right, but apart from the sanitation, medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh water system and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?

I think the health of our civilization, the depth of our awareness about the underpinnings of our culture, and our concern for the future, can all be tested by how well we support our libraries.

Ancient Egypt was a Negro Civilization. The history of Black Africa will remain suspended in air and cannot be written correctly until African historians dare to connect it with the history of Egypt.

In the end, the character of a civilization is encased in its structures.

Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent.

Africa has no history and did not contribute to anything that mankind enjoyed.

The true horrors of human history derive not from orcs and Dark Lords, but from ourselves.

The history of the bow and arrow is the history of mankind

Who do you suppose invented computers? Speaking in terms relevant to you, in terms of earth history, let alone other worldly history, the computer, of course, came from Atlantis.

Obviously I prefer freedom, but I know, and I think all history has told us, that freedom cannot flow from anarchy and disorder.

The history of any nation is not only a succession of events, but also a chain of ideas.

Culture, the acquainting ourselves with the best that has been known and said in the world, and thus with the history of the human spirit.

America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization.