1,222 Quotes About Civilization

It has opened a window into the very origins of Maya civilization.

In China's thousands of years of civilization, the conflict between humankind and nature has never been as serious as it is today.

I have no doubt that historians will conclude that we of the twentieth century had intelligence enough to create a great civilization but not the moral wisdom to preserve it.

Humanity faces a quantum leap forward. It faces the deepest social upheaval and creative restructuring of all time. Without clearly recognizing it, we are engaged in building a remarkable new civilization from the ground up. This is the meaning of the Third Wave.

The salt of any interesting civilization is mixture.

To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization.

Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled.

Why is old considered useless? Because in old age, the emphasis shifts from doing to Being, and our civilization, which is lost in doing, knows nothing of Being. It asks: Being? What do you do with it?

What we call wildness is a civilization other than our own.