There are historic situations in which refusal to defend the inheritance of a civilization, however imperfect, against tyranny and aggression may res….

There is a demon in technology. It was put there by man and man will have to exorcise it before technological civilization can achieve the eighteenth….

Each civilization has its own kind of pestilence and can control it only by reforming itself..

Our use of the phrase 'The Dark Ages' to cover the period from 600 to 1000 marks our undue concentration on Western Europe. [...] From India to Spain….

In yielding we are like the water, by nature placid, conforming to the hollow of the smallest hand; in time, shaping even the mountains to its will. ….

Without the library, you have no civilization..

The tendency of an advanced civilization is in truth monarchy..

The richest person in the world - in fact. All the riches in the world - couldn't provide you with anything like the endless, incredible loot availab….

In all of Western civilization, there have been societies that celebrating the homosexuality, the ancient Greeks. But they, in fact, protected the in….

Traditional marriage in the platform is the essential building block to our civilization..

Wilderness itself is the basis of all our civilization. I wonder if we have enough reverence for life to concede to wilderness the right to live on?.

I don't actually believe in a clash of civilizations. I believe in a clash of the civilized and the noncivilized..

Civilization has imposed countless restrictions and conventions on each of us, with the result that the subconscious in the majority of us has become….

[To the South African parliament:] I do not know why we equate - and with the examples before us - a white skin with civilization..

Art is a staple of mankind... So urgent, so utterly linked with the pulse of feeling that it becomes the singular sign of life when every other aspec….

Lies hold civilization together. If people ever seriously begin telling each other what they really think, there'd be no peace. Good-bye to tact. Goo….

Every time a new nation, America or Russia for instance, advances toward civilization, the human race perfects itself; every time an inferior class e….

There is nothing more fragile than civilization..

Civilization changes man on the outside. Meditation softens him within, through and through..

Unless man has the wit and the grit to build his civilization on something better than material power, it is surely idle to talk of plans for a stabl….

The Earth faces environmental problems right now that threaten the imminent destruction of civilization and the end of the planet as a livable world.….