1,222 Quotes About Civilization

Whether science-and indeed civilization in general-can long survive depends upon psychology, that is to say, it depends upon what human beings desire.

Of course, all students should learn African history, as they should learn the history of other continents and major civilizations. But this history should be taught accurately and based on the best scholarship, not ideology or politics.

Western civilization shapes the content of my films, provides me with subjects that haven't been used before.

Good soldiers, bad officers; however don't forget that without them we would not have any Civilization.

We must remember that any oppression, any injustice, any hatred, is a wedge designed to attack our civilization.

For nearly as long as civilization has existed, patriarchy - enforced through the rights of the firstborn son - has been the organizing principle, with few exceptions.

The issue is whether the ultimate civil authority of the United States can tolerate actions in contempt of constitutional lines of authority. Any lessening of civil power over military power must inevitably lead away from democracy.

There's people who actually have a whole science devoted to what makes a sticky meme and that idea of that question of why some ideas about how civilizations work catch on and others don't.

The foundation of all civilization is loitering.