1,222 Quotes About Civilization

Okay, so what we really have to recognize and own as Americans is that our way of being is itself perhaps the greatest threat to the continuation of civilization.

A German immersed in any civilization different from his own loses a weight equivalent in volume to the amount of intelligence he displaces.

Our global civilization today is on an economic path that is environmentally unsustainable, a path that is leading us toward economic decline and eventual collapse.

When you can’t do something truly useful, you tend to vent the pent up energy in something useless but available, like snappy dressing.

Science?is so greatly opposed to history and tradition that it cannot be absorbed by our civilization.

You would make a ship sail against the winds and currents by lighting a bonfire under her decks? I have no time for such nonsense.

Civilization does everything for the mind and favors it entirely at the expense of the body.

In the South, prior to the Civil Rights movement and the 1964 Civil Rights Act, democracy was the rule. The majority of people were white, and the white majority had little or no respect for any rights which the black minority had relative to property, or even to their own lives. The majority - the mob and occasionally the lynch mob - ruled.

Civilization is the way one's own people live. Savagery is the way foreigners live.