Quotes About Civilization

America is ruled by laws, not mobs!

Solo sirvió para recordarle que el fin de la civilización era posible

Exactly. What about Rhodesia, and Barbados, and India? We can't be expected to ask the natives' permission before we civilize them.

As I have said, it may be difficult to define civilization, but it isn't so difficult to recognize barbarism.

At some time in the ninth century one could have looked down the Seine and seen the prow of a Viking ship coming up the river. Looked at today in the British Museum it is a powerful work of art; but to the mother of a family trying to settle down in her little hut, it would have seemed less agreeable – as menacing to her civilisation as the periscope of a nuclear submarine.

If a test of civilization be sought, none can be so sure as the condition of that half of society over which the other half has power.

Music has power to create a universe or to destroy a civilization.

Social intercourse -- a very limited thing in a half civilized country, becomes in our centers of civilization a great power. . .

Straying off course is not recognized as a capital crime by civilized nations.

Even galaxy-spanning anarchist utopias of stupefying full-spectrum civilisational power have turf wars within their unacknowledged militaries.

Truth and trust are the means by which civilization holds off barbarism.

The test of civilization is the power of drawing the most benefit out of cities.

Over-civilization and barbarism are within an inch of each other. And a mark of both is the power of medicine-men.

If we cannot live entirely like human beings, at least let us do everything in our power not to live entirely like animals.

It is only the warlike power of a civilized people that can give peace to the world.

We were the only humans - the only forms of life, in fact - for hundreds of miles in each direction, unreaching and unreachable as we rocketed back towards civilisation.

There was nothing left for us to do but to take them all, and to educate the Filipinos, and uplift and civilize and Christianize them, and by God's grace do the very best we could for them, as our fellowmen for whom Christ also died.

So long as the system of competition in the production and exchange of the means of life goes on, the degradation of the arts will go on and if that system is to last for ever, then art is doomed, and will surely die that is to say, civilization will die.

Apart from the desire to produce beautiful things, the leading passion of my life has been and is hatred of modern civilization.

The sword of Mohammad, and the Kor'än, are the most stubborn enemies of Civilisation, Liberty, and Truth which the world has yet known.

The Fifth Amendment is an old friend and a good friend. It is one of the great landmarks in man's struggle to be free of tyranny, to be decent and civilized.

No healthy civilization can ever be reared on a foundation of devitalized work.

The average person in William Shakespeare's time lived no better than his counterpart in Homer's time.

Knowing how things work is the basis for appreciation, and is thus a source of civilized delight.