Quotes on Civilization

In the twenty-first century, the robot will take the place which slave labor occupied in ancient civilization.

Simplicity is the peak of civilization.

Architecture belongs to culture, not to civilization.

Deception is a developed art of civilization and the most potent weapon in the game of power

And I cried… for all of the women who stretched their bodies for civilizations, only to find ruins.

By the same right under which France took Flanders, Lorraine and Alsace, and will sooner or later take Belgium — by that same right Germany takes over Schleswig; it is the right of civilisation as against barbarism, of progress as against stability.

The war of ideas is a Greek invention. It is one of the most important inventions ever made. Indeed, the possibility of fighting with with words and ideas instead of fighting with swords is the very basis of our civilization, and especially of all its legal and parliamentary institutions.

What we are confronted with now is a growing perception that if we desire a certain type of civilization and culture we must exterminate the sort of people who do not fit into it.

The sum of the whole matter is this - our civilization cannot survive materially unless it be redeemed spiritually.

Is not the history of real civilization the slow and gradual emancipation of the intellect, of the judgment, from the mastery of passion? Is not that man civilized whose reason sits the crowned monarch of his brain - whose passions are his servants?

Revolution is the larva of civilization.

Civilization no longer needs to open up wilderness; it needs wilderness to help open up the still largely unexplored human mind.

Under the continual contact with the pebbles my feet have become hardened and used to the ground. My body, almost constantly nude, no longer suffers from the sun. Civilization is falling from me little by little. I am beginning to think simply, to feel only very little hatred for my neighbor - rather, to love him.

Coal is the single greatest threat to civilization and all life on our planet.

We must plant the sea and herd its animals using the sea as farmers instead of hunters. That is what civilization is all about - farming replacing hunting.

The gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature, and poetry, and all that is spiritual.

We do not see faith, hope, and charity as unattainable ideals, but we use them as stout supports of a nation fighting the fight for freedom in a modern civilization.

What do I consider a teacher should be? One who breathes life into knowledge so that it takes new form in progress and civilization.

The issue is Socialism versus Capitalism. I am for Socialism because I am for humanity. We have been cursed with the reign of gold long enough. Money constitutes no proper basis of civilization. The time has come to regenerate society - we are on the eve of universal change.

To serve Armenia is to serve civilization.

I think [contacting an alien civilization] would be a disaster. The extraterrestrials would probably be far in advance of us. The history of advanced races meeting more primitive people on this planet is not very happy, and they were the same species. I think we should keep our heads low.