1,222 Quotes About Civilization

The spirit of playful competition is, as a social impulse, older than culture itself and pervades all life like a veritable ferment. Ritual grew up in sacred play; poetry was born in play and nourished on play; music and dancing were pure play....We have to conclude, therefore, that civilization is, in its earliest phases, played. It does not come from play...it arises in and as play, and never leaves it.

More than 170 flags will fly on the south lawn of the White House today as a way to visually and symbolically explain that the world is coming together to fight this threat to civilization and to freedom.

I am studying ancient civilizations, trying to find what happened to them, finding out why they went into a decline, why they died.

The African tribesman, with his complete contempt for truth and his emphasis on brutality and savagery for others but not for himself, is a no-civilization.

You may as well know, also, that every great leader, from the dawn of civilization down to the present, was a dreamer.

Civilization is the process of reducing the infinite to the finite.

As the publisher of the 'Tory,' I strive to defend the pillars of Western civilization against the distractions of diversity.

Civilization is a natural and inevitable consequence - whether good or evil I am not prepared to state.

A civilization in which there is not a continuous controversy about important issues is on the way to totalitarianism and death