1,222 Quotes About Civilization

We are just a people that have refused to improve with the times. Quick to copy the western world in a lot of things but have never been able to copy their DECENCY in civil matters.

In God's scheme what is a few billion years here and there. Perhaps there have come and gone a dozen human civilizations in the past billion years that we know nothing about. And after this civilization we are living in destroys itself, it will all start up again in a million years when the planet has all its messes cleaned up. Then, finally, one of these civilizations, say five billion years from now, will last because people treat each other the way they ought to.

If you ask me, can I define humanity? I'll tell you, I can - in one word - selflessness.

The many sorrows of our recent history suggest that we humans have a learning disability.

We knew the Moon from our earliest days. It was there when our ancestors descended from the trees into the savannahs, when we learned to walk upright, when we first devised stone tools, when we domesticated fire, when we invented agriculture and built cities and set out to subdue the Earth.

When you stretch out your hand in love, that's when civilization manifests.

Civilization starts with selflessness, for the entire animal kingdom is predicated on selfishness.

...a woman smart and persistent enough that even a PhD in psychology hasn't clouded her insight into how people think and act.

Normal human behavior is community, not self-obsession - normal human behavior is reasoning, not superstition - normal human behavior is warmth, not discrimination - normal human behavior means a plain ordinary decency towards every single human being on earth, not a suspicious condescension.