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Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering the prisons.

Alfred North Whitehead

The worth of men consists in their liability to persuasion. . . . Civilisation is the maintenance of social order, by its own inherent persuasiveness as embodying the nobler alternative. The recourse to force, however unavoidable, is a disclosure of the f

Alfred North Whitehead

The vigour of civilised societies is preserved by the widespread sense that high aims are worth while. Vigorous societies harbour a certain extravagance of objectives, so that men wander beyond the safe provision of personal gratifications. All strong int

Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

If aliens from outer space ever come and we show them our civilization and they make fun of it, we should say we were just kidding, that this isn't really our civilization, but a gag we hoped they would like. Then we tell them to come back in twenty years to see our REAL civilization. After that, we start a crash program of coming up with an impressive new civilization. Either that, or just shoot down the aliens as they're waving good-bye.

Andre Malraux

The basic problem is that our civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man.

Ayn Rand

Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.

Albert Einstein

I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two-thirds of the people of the Earth might be killed, but enough men capable of thinking, and enough books, would be left to start again, and civilization could be restored.

William Jennings Bryan

Anglo-Saxon civilization has taught the individual to protect his own rights American civilization will teach him to respect the rights of others.

Naguib Mahfouz

I am the son of two civilizations that at a certain age in history have formed a happy marriage. The first of these, seven thousand years old, is the Pharaonic civilization; the second, one thousand four hundred years old, is the Islamic civilization.

Jean Baudrillard

The skylines lit up at dead of night, the air-conditioning systems cooling empty hotels in the desert, and artificial light in the middle of the day all have something both demented and admirable about them the mindless luxury of a rich civilization, and yet of a civilization perhaps as scared to see the lights go out as was the hunter in his primitive night.

L. Frank Baum

Imagination has brought mankind through the dark ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination led Columbus to discover America. Imagination led Franklin to discover electricity. Imagination has given us the steam engine, the telephone, the talking-machine, and the automobile, for these things had to be dreamed of before they became realities. So I believe that dreams--daydreams, you know, with your eyes wide open and your brain machinery whizzing--are likely to lead to the betterment of the world. The imaginative child will become the imaginative man or woman most apt to invent, and therefore to foster, civilization.

Erma Bombeck

When humor goes, there goes civilization.

Will Rogers

You can't say that civilization don't advance, however, for in every war they kill you in a new way.

Will Rogers

You can't say civilization don't advance... in every war they kill you in a new way.

Will Durant

Education is the transmission of civilization.

Robinson Jeffers

Civilization is a transient sickness.

Jacob Getlar Smith

The artist should be a seeing-eye dog for a myopic civilization.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Taxes are the price we pay for civilization.

Karen Horney

The perfect normal person is rare in our civilization.

Mark Twain

Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessaries.

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

(On Western civilization) I think it would be a good idea.

Agnes Repplier

People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering the prisons.

George Washington

A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization.

Herbert Spencer

Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.

Carl Sagan

We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology.

Luther Standing Bear

Civilization has been thrust upon me... and it has not added one whit to my love for truth, honesty, and generosity.

Alfred North Whitehead

Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them.

Gerald Early

I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they study this civilization the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.

George Whitehead

It is the first step of wisdom to recognize that the major advances in civilization are processes which all but wreck the society in which they occur.

Ambrose Bierce

Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization.

John Perry Barlow

We will create a civilization of the Mind in Cyberspace. May it be more humane and fair than the world your governments have made before.

Scott Adams

We're a planet of nearly six billion ninnies living in a civilization that was designed by a few thousand amazingly smart deviants.

Ambrose Bierce

In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.

Pearl Buck

Our society must make it right and possible for old people not to fear the young or be deserted by them, for the test of a civilization is the way that it cares for its helpless members.

Albert Einstein

More and more I come to value charity and love of one's fellow being above everything else... All our lauded technological progress--our very civilization--is like the axe in the hand of the pathological criminal.

Grover Cleveland

Sensible and responsible women do not want to vote. The relative positions to be assumed by man and woman in the working out of our civilization were assigned long ago by a higher intelligence than ours.

Aldous Huxley

The thin and precarious crust of decency is all that separates any civilization, however impressive, from the hell of anarchy or systematic tyranny which lie in wait beneath the surface.

George Will

We know next to nothing about virtually everything. It is not necessary to know the origin of the universe it is necessary to want to know. Civilization depends not on any particular knowledge, but on the disposition to crave knowledge.

Vine Deloria

Western civilization, unfortunately, does not link knowledge and morality but rather, it connects knowledge and power and makes them equivalent.

Lee Iacocca

In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something less, because passing civilization along from one generation to the next ought to be the highest honor and the highest responsibility

Barbara Tuchman

Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.

Max Lerner

Having a thirteen-year-old in the family is like having a general-admission ticket to the movies, radio and TV. You get to understand that the glittering new arts of our civilization are directed to the teen-agers, and by their suffrage they stand or fall.

Timothy Leary

Civilization is unbearable, but it is less unbearable at the top.

Herbert Butterfield

But the greatest menace to our civilization today is the conflict between giant organized systems of self-righteousness -- each system only too delighted to find that the other is wicked -- each only too glad that the sins give it the pretext for still deeper hatred and animosity.

Vince Lombardi

Individual commitment to a group effort, that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

John Burroughs

Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years.

Oscar Fingall O'Flahertie Wills Wilde

Civilization requires slaves. Human slavery is wrong, insecure, and demoralizing. On mechanical slavery, on the slavery of the machine, the future of the world depends.

Eugene V. Debs

If it had not been for the discontent of a few fellows who had not been satisfied with their conditions, you would still be living in caves. Intelligent discontent is the mainspring of civilization. Progress is born of agitation. It is agitation or stagnation.

Frank Lloyd Wright

Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.

George Herbert Walker Bush

A volunteer is a person who can see what others cannot see; who can feel what most do not feel. Often, such gifted persons do not think of themselves as volunteers, but as citizens - citizens in the fullest sense: partners in civilization.

Alvin Toffler

Humanity faces a quantum leap forward. It faces the deepest social upheaval and creative restructuring of all time. Without clearly recognizing it, we are engaged in building a remarkable new civilization from the ground up. This is the meaning of the Third Wave.

L. Frank Baum

Imagination has brought mankind through the dark ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination led Columbus to discover America. Imagination led Franklin to discover electricity.

What a time! What a civilization!

Tolerance is the apex of any civilization.

The family is the nucleus of civilization.

Simplicity is the peak of civilization.

It is better for civilization to be going down the drain than to be coming up it.

Civilization degrades the many to exalt the few.

The civilization of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.

Civilization is the distance man has placed between himself and his excreta.

The true civilization is where every man gives to every other every right that he claims for himself.

Civilization is the art of living in towns of such size the everyone does not know everyone else.

Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.

The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.

Every civilization that has ever existed has ultimately collapsed.

The measuring rod of a civilization is the prosperity of the masses.

Real freedom lies in wildness, not in civilization.

Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.

Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor.

To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization.

America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.

Civilization is the process of reducing the infinite to the finite.

Civilization - biggest syntax error in history!

It is so stupid of modern civilization to have given up believing in the devil when he is the only explanation of it.

If the aborigine drafted an IQ test, all of Western civilization would presumably flunk it.

It was the Law of the Sea, they said. Civilization ends at the waterline. Beyond that, we all enter the food chain, and not always right at the top.

Civilization is a slow process of adopting the ideas of minorities.

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

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

The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.

Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men.

The more rapidly a civilization progresses, the sooner it dies for another to rise in its place.

The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards.

Disinterested intellectual curiosity is the life blood of real civilization.

Clearly, a civilization that feels guilty for everything it is and does will lack the energy and conviction to defend itself.

Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.

Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty, and dies with chaos.

Civilization is very much an immature and ongoing experiment, the success of which is by no means yet proven.

I have seen the science I worshipped, and the aircraft I loved, destroying the civilization I expected them to serve.

When vultures watching your civilization begin dropping dead, it is time to pause and wonder.

Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them.

One of the great dreams of man must be to find some place between the extremes of nature and civilization where it is possible to live without regret.

Ideas are the factors that lift civilization. They create revolutions. There is more dynamite in an idea than in many bombs.

To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level.

America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization.

The true law of the race is progress and development. Whatever civilization pauses in the march of conquest, it is overthrown by the barbarian.

The true test of a civilization is not the census, nor the size of the cities, nor the crops??”no, but the kind of man the country turns out.

A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on an installment plan.

Man lowers his head and lunges into civilization, forgetting the days of his infancy when he sought truth in a snowflake or a stick. Man forgets the wisdom of the child.

We know next to nothing about virtually everything. It is not necessary to know the origin of the universe; it is necessary to want to know. Civilization depends not on any particular knowledge, but on the disposition to crave knowledge.

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.

"We made civilization to impress our girl friends." - Orson Wells