Quotes About Civilization

The Bible tells us to be like God, and then on page after page it describes God as a mass murderer. This may be the single most important key to the political behavior of Western Civilization.

Wherever an altar is found, there civilization exists.

Muslims stand by their religion entirely. It is a sort of religious absolutism. While Europeans have stopped defending the values of their civilization. They confuse tolerance with relativism.

The true pioneer of civilization is not the newspaper, not religion, not the railroad - but whiskey!

Today's interpretations of religion are often backward and contradict the needs of civilization.

I have increasingly, over the years, felt that religion today does our civilization more harm than good.

It is commonly said and known that each civilization has its own religion. Now my claim is that if we look deeper, the different civilizations were brought into being by the different revelations.

Almighty God: Our sons, pride of our Nation, this day have set upon a mighty endeavor, a struggle to preserve our Republic, our religion, and our civilization, and to set free a suffering humanity.

The taming and domestication of religion is one of the unceasing chores of civilization.

We may be sure that out of the ruins of our capitalist civilization a new religion will emerge, just as Christianity emerged from the ruins of the Roman civilization.

That religion may have served some necessary function for us in the past does not preclude the possibility that it is now the greatest impediment to our building a global civilization.

We are all Greeks. Our laws, our literature, our religion, our arts, have their root in Greece.

There is no society in human history that ever suffered because its people became too reasonable.

The law has no claim to human respect. It has no civilizing mission; its only purpose is to protect exploitation.

Civilizations should be measured by the degree of diversity attained and the degree of unity retained.

Anglo-Saxon civilization has taught the individual to protect his own rights; American civilization will teach him to respect the rights of others.

Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men.

Certain other societies may respect the rule of force--we respect the rule of law.

In one respect at least the Martians are a happy people, they have no lawyers.

THE END OF civilization as we knew it arrived not with a whimper, but with a massive storm. When

Man ceased to be an ape, vanquished the ape, on the day the first book was written.

Thus, the Jewish empowerment entailed in creating a Jewish state was not merely a matter of guaranteeing external, physical security of the Jews. Ultimately, its aim is to provide an internal security of the soul, which is the indispensable precondition for the emergence of a noble, uniquely Jewish character and civilization.

The remoteness from civilisation, complete immersion in natural surroundings, breathtaking mountains covered with forest, fresh water springs, and rich flora and fauna inspire me every moment I am there. I feel part of it; moreover, when I step out of my house at night I clearly discern that I am standing on a living planet, turning and moving in its course under the brilliance of the Milky Way.

Since the invention of the flush toilet and the vacuum carpet cleaner, the modern man seems to judge a man's moral standards by his cleanliness, and thinks a dog the more highly civilized for having a weekly bath and a winter wrapper round his belly.