1,222 Quotes About Civilization

When the survival strategy of a civilization is invalidated, in all of human history none have ever turned back from the brink.

I remind everybody that the Sabbath was the Jewish gift to civilization.

There were 5 Exabytes of information created between the dawn of civilization through 2003, but that much information is now created every 2 days.

... it is a matter of civilizing everyone or not being civilized at all: the decay has always come from a partial civilization.

Civilization is always in danger when those who have never learned to obey are given the right to command.

The fact the enemies of God must face is that modern civilization has conquered the world, but in doing so has lost its soul. And in losing its soul it will lose the very world it gained. Even our own so-called Liberal culture in these United States which has tried to avoid complete secularization by leaving little zones of individual freedom is in danger of forgetting that these zones were preserved only because religion was in their soul. And as religion fades so will freedom, for only where the spirit of God is, is there liberty.

Whatever fosters militarism makes for barbarism; whatever fosters peace makes for civilization.

Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.

I feel that I'm in a very interesting position, where I'm standing back to look at this change, at this moment in history of human beings. If the end of the civilization comes before the end of my life, that's lucky! I want to witness how this big story of humans ends.