Quotes About Civilization

The subject of history is the life of peoples and mankind.

Maybe they didn't want you to realize that every civilization has its weakness. There's always one thing we depend on. And if someone takes it away all that's left is some story in a history class.

Ages of faith and of unbelief are always said to mark the course of history.

It was the fall into history that enslaved us to the labor cycle, to the agricultural cycle. And notice how fiendish it is.

The study of history, it seems to me, leads to the conviction that all important events tend toward the same end - the civilization of mankind.

Everybody should be able to choose according to his own values and history, within a European civilization that we all belong to.

History has been conceived--and with high justification in the records--as the human struggle for civilization against barbarism in different ages and places, from the beginning of human societies.

India is a civilization with a history that is thousands of years old.The diversity of India, of our civilization, is actually a thing of beauty, which is something we are extremely proud of.

The history of almost every civilization furnishes examples of geographical expansion coinciding with deterioration in quality.

History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes follies and misfortunes of mankind.

Human history is in essence a history of ideas.

The bookshelf, like the book, has become an integral part of civilization as we know it, its presence in a home practically defining what it means to be civilized, educated, and refined.

The foundations of civilization are no stronger and no more enduring than the corporate integrity of the homes on which they rest. If the home deteriorates, civilization will crumble and fall.

The true civilization is where every man gives to every other every right that he claims for himself.

What more you expect from a nation that honors a barbarian.

The only hope is that our civilization will collapse at a certain point, as always happens in history. Then, out of barbarity, a renaissance.

After our ages-long journey from savagery to civility, let's hope we haven't bought a round-trip ticket.

In God's wildness lies the hope of the world-the great fresh unblighted, unredeemed wilderness. The galling harness of civilization drops off, and wounds heal ere we are aware.

Anthropology is the most humanistic of the sciences and the most scientific of the humanities.

The more humanity advances, the more it is degraded.

When the State withers, humanity flowers.

I am certain and have always stressed that the destination of mankind is to become more and more humane. The ideal of humanity has to be revived.

How do you rid the Earth of humans? Rid the humans of their humanity.

Progress of mankind is the decadence of humanity.