Quotes About Civilization

I'm sure civilizations will still evolve through play, or rather as play, since that seems to be a fundamental mechanism of our humanity.

A great library contains the diary of the human race.

I see in the rising crescendo of ethnic tensions, civilization clashes and the use of religious justification for acts of terror, a clear and present danger to humanity.

Humanity is just a virus with shoes.

The dinosaurs are remember only by their bones. What will we be remembered for with humanity?

Science devises ever bloodier means of war until humanity's powers of destruction overcome our powers of creation and our civilisation drives itself to extinction.

Speech is the mark of humanity. It is the normal terminus of thought.

There was nothing humane about humanity. At the end of the day, they were all animals with only survival instincts.

This is still a very primitive age, and I'm afraid they may not get much further here.

Language is one of the thin walls humanity has built up over centuries against its own bestial and destructive impulses.

Wherever humanity has made that hardest of all starts and lifted itself out of mere brutality is a sacred spot.

History is the self-consciousness of humanity.

I think God's going to come down and pull civilization over for speeding.

Don't blame me. Tell your mom to move closer. Tell her there's this new club called civilization and you guys should join.

Allen's Law of Civilization: It is better for civilization to be going down the drain than to be coming up it.

A country road, a gravel road, is a sign of civilization, sure, but it's just a farm, an easy conquest. Iron means a stronghold, people who can defend what's theirs.

Which is better, law and rescue, or hunting and breaking things up?

Collecting facts is important. Knowledge is important. But if you don't have an imagination to use the knowledge, civilization is nowhere.

Every monument of civilization is a monument of barbarism

Funding a civilization through advertising is like trying to get nutrition by connecting a tube from one's anus to one's mouth.

Sophisticating meat eating doesn't make it any less savage.

We've been trapped in here, away from civilisation. We're wasting our lives away, waiting for something. But nothing's happened, and nothing is going to happen unless we help ourselves.

A civilized society is formed when every individual in that society are bound to obey the rules and regulation which is for the benefit of their own society.

I often think . . . that the bookstores that will save civilization are not online, nor on campuses, nor named Borders, Barnes & Noble, Dalton, or Crown. They are the used bookstores, in which, for a couple of hundred dollars, one can still find, with some diligence, the essential books of our culture, from the Bible and Shakespeare to Plato, Augustine, and Pascal.