1,222 Quotes About Civilization

Every great movement in the history of Western civilization from the Carolingian age to the nineteenth century has been an international movement which owed its existence and its development to the cooperation of many different peoples.

In the zone of perdition where my youth went as if to complete its education, one would have said that the portents of an imminent collapse of the whole edifice of civilization had made an appointment.

So what this is is a 'road novel.' Eventually entire civilization (in the South) had been uprooted and people found security only in movement, ... That interested me enormously ... A friend from New Orleans, he said when he read the book, 'This is like Hurricane Katrina.'

I have increasingly, over the years, felt that religion today does our civilization more harm than good.

Violence is not necessary to destroy a civilization. Each civilization dies from indifference to the unique values which created it.

Tribalism is the most powerful force in the world.

We could tell them [alien civilization] things that we have discovered in the realm of mathematical physics, but there is stuff that I would like to know. There are some famous problems like how to bring gravitation and quantum physics together, the long-sought-after theory of quantum gravity. But it may be hard to understand the answer that comes back.

The soul of a civilization is its religion, and it dies with its faith.

Civilizations come and go; they conquer the earth and crumble into dust; but faith survives every desolation.