Quotes About Civilization

I have been obsequious toward Western civilization, exaggerating its merits and, at the same time, exaggerating my own merits.

ISIL is more threatening to the Muslim world than it is to western civilization.

The center of Western culture is Greece, and we have never lost our ties with the architectural concepts of that ancient civilization.

There is certainly a longstanding idea within western culture that civilization is only a thin veneer. As soon as something happens, say a war or a natural disaster or an epidemic like we're going through right now, the worst comes out in each of us.

There's still racism. Western Europe... has taken the native cultures of the Americas, the African cultures, the Asian civilization and lumped them together into The Others.

In spite of overwhelming evidence, it is most difficult for a citizen of western Europe to bring thoroughly home to himself the truth that the civilisation which surrounds him is a rare exception in the history of the world.

Shakespeare is, essentially, the emanation of the Renaissance. The overflow of his fame on the Continent in later years was but the sequel of the flood of the Renaissance in Western Europe. He was the child of that great movement, and marks its height as it penetrated the North with civilization.

To the brains of our predecessors we owe all of our inheritance of civilization and culture.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art is unsurpassed at presenting more than 50 centuries of work. I go there constantly, seeing things over and over, better than I've ever seen them before.

To be civilized is to be potentially master of all possible ideas, and that means that one has got beyond being shocked, although one preserves one's own moral aesthetic preferences.

Iran is a country of 80 million people, educated and dynamic. It sits astride a crucial part of the world. It cannot be sanctioned and pressed down forever. It is the last great civilization to sit outside the global order.

China is a civilization pretending to be a nation.

Pretending is the basis of civilised society, and it is sometimes necessary for all of us. Without it we are nothing more than a pack of snarling dogs.

The people are not defending political interests. They are defending the idea of living in a civilized country.

Like most Americans, I am neither a Republican nor a Democrat. I am pro-future, pro-hope, and pro-abundance. I am pro-frontier and will talk to and work with anyone else who shares my belief that it is our goal and destiny to expand life and civilization into space.

The gloomiest way of describing the ancient world is it is misogyny from A to Z, really.

I have seen the science I worshiped, and the aircraft I loved, destroying the civilization I expected them to serve.

Only as we live, think, feel, and work outside the home, do we become humanly developed, civilized, socialized.

You know, our sense of individuality is just the number one target of civilization.

We have always been taught that navigation is the result of civilization, but modern archeology has demonstrated very clearly that this is not so.

If you want to believe that the government's coming for our guns or that being gay is a choice and a sin or that ObamaCare signals the end of civilization or that cutting taxes for rich people is the path to a better America, that's your choice. I'm never going to believe in any of that.

If history could teach us anything, it would be that private property is inextricably linked with civilization.

The United States is the only civilized country in the world to class its teachers at the bottom of the social scale.

India is one of the richest civilizations in the world, and we Indians are known for our love of our soil! But somewhere on our way to modernisation, we have been losing the very essence and spirit that we should be proud of - that is, our culture that teaches us to love and respect nature and nurture it.