Civilization Quotes - Page 3

Civilization will not attain to its perfection until the last stone from the last church falls on the last priest.

Any civilization where the main symbol of religious veneration is a tool of execution is a bad place to have children.

Societies in decline have no use for visionaries.

A child comes from God, a child
is a gift from God, but a child is
not our possession.

Give the child unconditional love
and freedom. Respect the child, the child has its own soul. The child has its own way.

So the story of man runs in a dreary circle, because he is not yet master of the earth that holds him.

The exaltation of human reason and its capabilities, a commitment to rigorous and rational debate, a promotion of intellectual inquiry and scholarly exchange-all sponsored by the Church-provided the framework for the Scientific Revolution.

The science done by the young Einstein will continue as long as our civilization, but for civilization to survive, we'll need the wisdom of the old Einstein - humane, global and farseeing. And whatever happens in this uniquely crucial century will resonate into the remote future and perhaps far beyond the Earth, far beyond the Earth

In the highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight. He who has once known its satisfactions is provided with a resource against calamity.

Nothing living should ever be treated with contempt. Whatever it is that lives, a man, a tree, or a bird, should be touched gently, because the time is short. Civilization is another word for respect for life...

Our political system is now run by the Big People for their own interests. If they ever deign to notice the Little People, it is with disdain and contempt.

in order to do evil, must first believe that what they are doing is good, otherwise they can't do it.

They believe civilization weakens natural selection. They do nature’s work so that we do not become a soft race.

The hardest time in this world is for the sensitive and intelligent people.

while modernity is not Christianity, modernity is the product of a Christian civilization. Lately the defects of modernity have been made plain to us while its virtues have been taken for granted.

Good sex is the basis of any truly civilized society.

Morals are nothing but a civilized society’s attempt to tame some beast called man.

The brown paper bag is the only thing civilized man has produced that does not seem out of place in nature.

The constant tug between nature and civilization is what keeps on our toes. Though of course, that did rather beg the question of how you defined nature and how you defined civilization.

It (modernization) is just another jungle closing in.

Thus the great civilizer sends out its emissaries, sooner or later, to every sandy cape and light-house of the New World which the census-taker visits, and summons the savage there to surrender.