1,222 Quotes About Civilization

Wherever we look, the work of the chemist has raised the level of our civilization and has increased the productive capacity of our nation.

Like that of the house, the all too common overuse of the neck leads to the underuse of the muscles of the eye.

Unfortunately, human progress is generally determined not by our spiritual, our emotional, and our intellectual development but by that of our technologies.

The thumb may look like an ordinary finger, truly it is a miraculous gift from God! If all the fingers were long and straight, it would be impossible for us to hold or catch anything easily! If there were no thumb, then human civilisation would lag way behind!

Suffering is the fuel in the engine of civilization."-Vergere

There is always a possibility that a higher civilization in the universe could visit the Earth and destroy our civilization, or on the contrary, help us make a big leap in our evolutionary development!

There is something hugely civilised about allowing long pauses in a conversation. Very few people can stand that kind of silence.

It is very funny and arrogant that countries that have not yet made a serious contribution to civilization make fun of countries that have contributed greatly to civilization but are now in decline!

If it is asserted that civilization is a real advance in the condition of man — and I think that it is, though only the wise improve their advantages — it must be shown that it has produced better dwellings without making them more costly; and the cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.