That is why I come forward tonight without any political label, without any bias, but just simply as an Englishman to say to you: a crime is being committed against civilization.
Without adventure civilization is in full decay.
Facebook has gone from a nice-and-boring social network to becoming an identity layer of the web. It is where nearly a billion people are depositing the artifacts of civilization in the 21st century – photos, videos, and birthday wishes.
Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos.
Civilization is maintained by a very few people in a small number of places and we need only some bombs and a few prisons to blot it out altogether.
We must plant the sea and herd its animals using the sea as farmers instead of hunters. That is what civilization is all about – farming replacing hunting.
To make the moral achievement implicit in science a source of strength to civilization, the scientist will have to have the cooperation also of the philosopher and the religious teacher.
I think almost everything about humans and human civilization is explained better by evolution than anything else.
The face of nature and civilization in this our country is to a certain point a very sufficient literary field. But it will yield its secrets only to a really grasping imagination. To write well and worthily of American things one need even more than elsewhere to be a master.
It has been said that the position of woman is the test of civilization, and that of our women was secure. In them was vested our standard of morals and the purity of our blood.
I often think of it this way: The 21st century is going to be a war on the attention of humanity. Where civilization focuses its attention, I mean, that’s what defines what the civilization cares about.
Geosynchronous spacecraft will be among civilization’s most enduring remnants, quietly circling Earth until the Earth is no more.
The test of civilization is its estimate of women.
It’s particularly incumbent in the Middle East on Sunni Arab nations to fight for values, to fight for the protection of innocent life, to fight for the principles of civilization and stability and order itself.
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.
The city has become a serious menace to our civilization… It has a peculiar attraction for the immigrant.
Public transportation is like a magnifying glass that shows you civilization up close.
The disease of mutual distrust among nations is the bane of modern civilization.
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.
The Industrial Revolution was another of those extraordinary jumps forward in the story of civilization.
Equal and united people can above all become a part of the civilization toward which mankind is moving. If we cannot be at the head of the column leading to such a civilization, there is certainly no need for us to be at is tail.
Let no one refer to the sword of Napoleon I as the instrument of progress and civilization!
The longer a region is in contact with modern civilization, the higher the degree to which the society in the region is civilized.
And we owe science to the combined energies of individual men of genius, rather than to any tendency to progress inherent in civilization.
A Christian people who have for two hundred years kept a race in bondage, deprived of the advantages of civilization and religion, owe them a debt of gratitude which it would seem ungenerous to withhold.
I believe that science is the engine of prosperity, that if you look around at the wealth of civilization today, it’s the wealth that comes from science.
Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization.
The old interests of aristocracy – the romance of action, the exalted passions of chivalry and war – faded into the background, and their place was taken by the refined and intimate pursuits of peace and civilization.
Back before our civilization despised itself, we applauded tough men. But you can’t produce tough men – or honorable women – without tough love. If you want to keep civilization, you better start by insisting that boys grow up, instead of trying to infantilize them so they’re afraid to stop sucking their thumbs.
Barbarians always think of themselves as the bringers of civilization.
Today, human civilization is drowning in a sea of lies.
If you want to maximize your expected utility, you try to save the world and the future of intergalactic civilization instead of donating your money to the society for curing rare diseases and cute puppies.
We are reminded repeatedly, often by older men, that western civilization has died on the altar of social media.
Human civilization is not something achieved against nature; it is rather the outcome of the working of the innate qualities of man.
You can’t leave civilization behind entirely.
This freedom of political discussion on the highest level is something which Western civilization has in common with that of classical antiquity, but with no other.
Ultimately, there is no compromise. Westerners will either retain their civilization, including the right to insult and blaspheme, or not.
To defend a country you need an army, but to defend a civilization you need education.
You can’t say civilization don’t advance… in every war they kill you in a new way.
The people of Egypt are an intelligent people with a glorious history who left their mark on civilization.
The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization.
I have always believed that technology drives human civilization’s endeavor and progress.
Real freedom lies in wildness, not civilization.
He would see civilization in danger of perishing under the oppression of a gigantic paradox: he would see multitudes of people starving in the midst of plenty, and nations preparing for war although pledged to peace.
No matter what we call it, poison is still poison, death is still death, and industrial civilization is still causing the greatest mass extinction in the history of the planet.
Speech is civilization itself.
I remind everybody that the Sabbath was the Jewish gift to civilization.
It’s the Law of God that gave the stability to Christian civilization.
Civilization is what makes you sick.
All over the world the wildlife that I write about is in grave danger. It is being exterminated by what we call the progress of civilization.
Education is the transmission of civilization.
A new civilization was not to be improvised by a single mind.
Civilization and profit go hand in hand.
It is my idea to make capitalism create socialism in China so that these two economic forces of human evolution will work side by side in future civilization.
It’s only Western civilization that, God forbid, you talk about dying, when it’s the only thing we know for certain, right? Everyone’s going to die, so what’s the big problem? ‘Oh, God. Don’t talk about it. Don’t think about it.’ I mean, I’m one of them. I’m not a big fan of talking about dying.
Civilization rests on the fact that most people do the right thing most of the time.
Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years.
Debt is part of the human condition. Civilization is based on exchanges – on gifts, trades, loans – and the revenges and insults that come when they are not paid back.
Western civilization shapes the content of my films, provides me with subjects that haven’t been used before.
The challenge for America is: can we become a multicultural, multiracial democracy? It would be historic. It would be America’s greatest contribution to human civilization.
A banker who is allowed to borrow money at X and loan it out at X plus Y will just go crazy and do too much of it if the civilization doesn’t have rules that prevent it.
I think it quite likely that we are the only civilization within several hundred light years; otherwise we would have heard radio waves.
As I have said for many years throughout this land, we’re borrowing money from China to buy oil from the Persian Gulf to burn it in ways that destroy the future of human civilization. Every bit of that has to change.
The diversity of India, of our civilization, is actually a thing of beauty, which is something we are extremely proud of.
It has been well said that tea is suggestive of a thousand wants, from which spring the decencies and luxuries of civilization.
Surely the only sound foundation for a civilization is a sound state of mind.
To the brains of our predecessors we owe all of our inheritance of civilization and culture.
