Best Civilization Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“India is a land of plenty inhibited by poverty; India has an enthralling, uplifting civilization that sparkles not only in our magnificent art, but also in the enormous creativity and humanity of our daily life in city and village.”

Art Humanity Cities Poverty Creativity Land Civilization India Enormous Plenty Uplifting Daily Life Village Magnificent Sparkle

Author:Pranab Mukherjee

“The Frankenstein of Communism is the product of the Jewish mind, and was turned loose upon the world by the son of a Rabbi, Karl Marx, in the hopes of destroying Christian civilization - as well as others. The testimony given before the Senate of the United States which is take from the many pages of the Overman Report, reveals beyond a shadow of a doubt that Jewish bankers financed the Russian Revolution.”

“Internationalism is a community theory of society which is founded on economic, spiritual, and biological facts. It maintains that respect for a healthy development of human society and of world civilization requires that mankind be organized internationally.”

World Humans Facts Spiritual Community Economic Mankind Theory Development Civilization Healthy Organized Human Society Common Interests Internationalism

Author:Christian Lous Lange

“If the views I have expressed be right, we can think of our civilization evolving with the growth of knowledge from small wandering tribes to large settled law.”

Ifs Thinking Law Growth Views Civilization Wander Evolve Tribes

Author:John Boyd Orr

“A civilization that only looks inward will stagnate. We have to keep looking outward; we have to keep finding new avenues for human endeavor and human expression.”

Humans Looks Expression Civilization Findings Endeavor Inward Avenues

Author:John L. Phillips

“Western civilization shapes the content of my films, provides me with subjects that haven't been used before.”

Film Used Subjects Havens Civilization Shapes Western Western Civilization

Author:Eric Rohmer

“But the further step, by means of which a civilization is given its quality or culture, is only attained by a process of cellular division, in the course of which the individual is differentiated, made distinct from and independent of the parent group.”

Mean Made Culture Courses Individual Given Process Parent Quality Steps Groups Civilization Independent Division Cellular

Book:Selected writings: poetry and criticism

Source: Selected writings: poetry and criticism

“Historically, if you look at great civilizations, why do they crumble? Is it because of what's outside or because of something internal? It's always internal. It is.”

Ifs Looks Civilization Internals

Author:Phylicia Rashad

“We are in the twilight of this earth. The societies and civilizations of human beings will not endure much longer because of their abuses of power.”

Humans Earth Humanity Human Beings Buddhism Civilization Abuse Endure Twilight Abuse Of Power

Author:Frederick Lenz

“While the comforts of modern civilization and technological success or economic success seem at the moment quite fulfilling, I can assure you that all of these things are transitory and will fall away.”

I Can Moments Seems Humanity Fall Economic Modern Buddhism Comfort Civilization Fulfilling Technological Transitory Modern Civilization Economic Success

Author:Frederick Lenz

“When a civilization, a race, a people, a society, when they lack love, they are soon destroyed.”

People Humanity Race Buddhism Civilization Destroyed

Author:Frederick Lenz

“You can judge a civilization by its level of agreement with the green world. When people respect nature, it's a sign of a healthy situation. When they denigrate nature, it's a sign of an unhealthy civilization that will soon perish.”

People World Nature Levels Situation Judging Buddhism Civilization Healthy Green Agreement Unhealthy Green World

Author:Frederick Lenz

“We strain to tell Americans and aliens in this country that there's nothing unique about America, nothing unique about American civilization, nothing that requires their allegiance, nothing of great value that they should sacrifice for.”

Should Country America Values Sacrifice Civilization Unique Aliens Strain Allegiance Great Value

Author:Tom Tancredo

“Civilization today reminds me of an ape with a blowtorch playing in a room full of dynamite. It looks like the monkeys are about to operate the zoo, and the inmates are taking over the asylum.”

Looks Today Rooms Civilization Monkeys Apes Zoos Asylums Dynamite Inmates

Author:Vance Havner

“Energy is the only universal currency: one of its many forms must be transformed to another in order for stars to shine, planets to rotate, plants to grow, and civilizations to evolve.”

Form Order Energy Stars Grows Planets Civilization Universal Shining Plant Evolve Transformed Currency

Author:Vaclav Smil

“Arab civilization has collapsed. It won’t recover in my lifetime.”

Civilization Lifetime

Author:Hisham Melhem

“With his decision to use force against the violent extremists of the Islamic State, President Obama ... is stepping once again - and with understandably great reluctance - into the chaos of an entire civilization that has broken down. Arab civilization, such as we knew it, is all but gone. The Arab world today is more violent, unstable, fragmented and driven by extremism - the extremism of the rulers and those in opposition-than at any time since the collapse of the Ottoman Empire a century ago.”

“There is something silly about grown men and women striving to reduce their vision of themselves and of civilization to bean counting.”

Men Vision Civilization Men And Women Strive Silly Counting Beans Grown Man

Book:The Doubter's Companion: A Dictionary of Aggressive Common Sense

Source: The Doubter's Companion: A Dictionary of Aggressive Common Sense

“The Islamic conquest of India is probably the bloodiest story in history. It is a discouraging tale, for its evident moral is that civilization is a precious good, whose delicate complex of order and freedom, culture and peace, can at any moment be overthrown by barbarians invading from without or multiplying within.”

Moments Stories Order Culture Moral Civilization India Complexes Tales Islamic Delicate Evident Conquest Discouraging Barbarians Invading Multiplying

Author:Will Durant

“The burgeoisie, by the rapid improvement of all instruments of production, by the immensely facilitated means of communication, draws all nations into civilization.”

Mean Nations Communication Civilization Draws Instruments Productions Improvement Rapids Bourgeoisie Communist Manifesto Means Of Communication

Book:Karl Marx: Selected Writings

Source: Karl Marx: Selected Writings

“Our way of life is at stake, our grandchildren are at stake, the future of civilization is at stake.”

Way Life Is Civilization Stakes Grandchildren

Author:Al Gore

“The acceptance of homosexuality is the last step in the decline of Gentile civilization.”

Lasts Steps Acceptance Civilization Decline Homosexuality Gentiles

Author:Pat Robertson

“Competition is the law of the jungle, but cooperation is the law of civilization”

Law Civilization Competition Cooperation Jungle

Author:Peter Kropotkin

“Arcturus is the highest civilization in our galaxy.”

Civilization Highest Galaxy

Author:Edgar Cayce

“They do not understand the fragility of civilization and the constant nearness of savage nature.”

Civilization Constant Savages Fragility

Book:Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism

Source: Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism

“Civilization is only savagery silver-gilt.”

Civilization Silver Savagery

Book:Allan Quatermain: Mystery & Adventure Story

Source: Allan Quatermain: Mystery & Adventure Story

“We can see quite plainly that our present civilization is built on the exploitation of animals, just as past civilisations were built on the exploitation of slaves.”

Today Past Animal Civilization Built Slavery Slave Comparison Vegan Exploitation Exploits Civilisation

Author:Donald Watson

“Collective guilt is borne by what is conventionally called the scapegoat. Now the scapegoat for white society - which is based on myths of progress, civilization, liberalism, education, enlightenment, refinement - will be precisely the force that opposes the expansion and the triumph of these myths. This brutal opposing force is supplied by the Negro.”

Force White Progress Civilization Enlightenment Guilt Myth Triumph Liberalism Collectives Brutal Expansion Opposing Refinement Scapegoat

Book:Black Skin, White Masks

Source: Black Skin, White Masks

“If you can see, hear, feel, and think, you should know that King Dollar rules the United States, and that the workers are robbed and exploited in this country to the heart's content of the masters.If you are not deaf, dumb, and blind, then you know that the American bourgeois democracy and capitalistic civilization are the worst enemies of labor and progress, and that instead of protecting them, you should help to fight to destroy them.”

“Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock.”

Firsts Persons War Peace Rocks Civilization First Time Angry Casts Anti War Antiwar Moderation Angry Person

Author:Sigmund Freud

“A civilization which leaves so large a number of its participants unsatisfied and drives them into revolt neither has nor deserves the prospect of a lasting existence.”

Numbers Existence Perspective Civilization Survival Deserve Lasting Revolt Participants Unsatisfied

Book:The standard edition of the complete psychological works of Sigmund Freud

Source: The standard edition of the complete psychological works of Sigmund Freud

“It is impossible to overlook the extent to which civilization is built upon a renunciation of instinct.”

Impossible Civilization Built Instinct Intuition Renunciation Natural Instinct

Book:Civilization and Its Discontents

Source: Civilization and Its Discontents

“The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.”

Inspirational Firsts Humans Civilization Stones Anger Insult Founders Insulting Psychoanalysis Comeback

Author:Sigmund Freud

“The first requisite of civilization, therefore, is that of justice — that is, the assurance that a law once made will not be broken in favour of an individual. This implies nothing as to the ethical value of such a law.”

Firsts Justice Civilization

Author:Sigmund Freud

“While he was alive Peter Jennings did considerable damage to the cause of civilization and human deceny [sic] by his sympathy for Jew-hating terrorists and their supporters.”

Humans Hate Causes Alive Civilization Jew Terrorist Damage Peter Supporter

Author:Paul Waldman

“We believe that civilization has been created under the pressure of the exigencies of life at the cost of satisfaction of the instincts.”

Believe Has Beens Civilization Cost Pressure Instinct Satisfaction

Book:The standard edition of the complete psychological works of Sigmund Freud

Source: The standard edition of the complete psychological works of Sigmund Freud

“The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization.”

Individual Liberty Civilization Individuality

Book:Civilization and Its Discontents

Source: Civilization and Its Discontents

“A pioneer destroys things and calls it civilization.”

Civilization Pioneers

Author:Charles Marion Russell

“Civilization could not exist until there was written language, because without written language no generation could bequeath to succeeding generations anything but its simpler findings.”

Language Written Generations Civilization Succeed Findings Written Language

Author:Charlton Laird

“Babies and language are the essential ingredients of civilization, and speakers of language no more know where it came from than babies know where they come from.”

Knows Language Baby Civilization Essentials Ingredients Speakers

Author:Charlton Laird

“To the present writer a careful study of the facts now available seems to leave no doubt that civilization was born at the southeast corner of the Mediterranean.”

Facts Seems Born Study Doubt Civilization Careful Corners Available No Doubt

Author:James Henry Breasted

“By 3000 B.C. the art of Egypt was so ripe and so far advanced that it is surprising to find any student of early culture proposing that the crude contemporary art of the early Babylonians is the product of a civilization earlier than that of the Nile.”

Art Culture Students Products Civilization Contemporary Surprising Egypt Ripe Crude Contemporary Art Nile

Author:James Henry Breasted

“In any case, in so far as our knowledge of the universe carries us, the advent of civilization for the first time on our globe represents the highest ascent of the life processes to which evolution had anywhere attained.”

Firsts Universe Process Cases Evolution Civilization Highest First Time Carrie Globes Advent Ascent

Author:James Henry Breasted

“There is but little room for doubt that Egypt led the way in the creation of the earliest known group of civilizations which arose on both sides of the land bridge between Africa and Eurasia in the fourth millennium B.C.”

Way Littles Sides Rooms Known Doubt Groups Land Creation Civilization Bridges Fourth Egypt Both Sides Millennium

Author:James Henry Breasted

“The great advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science or literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government.”

Government Literature Painting Industry Civilization Capitalism Architecture Agriculture Free Market Sustainable Agriculture Centralized Government

Author:Milton Friedman

“Through the wholesale destruction of the representatives of a class that from the beginning of history had been the directing and creative force in civilization, a process began which was almost mechanical.”

Force Process Class Creative Civilization Destruction Representatives Wholesale

Book:TOWARDS THE GREAT PEACE

Source: TOWARDS THE GREAT PEACE

“The world runs on individuals pursuing their self interests. The great achievements of civilization have not come from government bureaus. Einstein didn't construct his theory under order from a bureaucrat. Henry Ford didn't revolutionize the automobile industry that way.”

“Civilization and violence are antithetical concepts.”

Peace Violence Civilization Concepts

Book:The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.:

Source: The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.:

“The money-changers have fled from their high seats in the temple of our civilization. We may now restore that temple to the ancient truths.”

May Civilization Ancient Finance Seats Temples

Author:Franklin D. Roosevelt

“Rome is the one great spiritual organisation which is able to resist and must, as a matter of life and death, the progress of science and modern civilization”

Matter Able Spiritual Progress Modern Civilization Life And Death Rome Organisation Great Spiritual Modern Civilization

Book:Lay Sermons, Addresses, and Reviews

Source: Lay Sermons, Addresses, and Reviews

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