Civilization Quotes - Page 15

• Today, human civilization is drowning in a sea of lies.

  L. Neil Smith

  Lying, Sea, Deceit

  "Empire of Lies" by L. Neil Smith, www.lneilsmith.org. June 15, 2003.

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• A dialogue among civilizations can be seen as a dialogue between the individual and the universal.

  Abdelaziz Bouteflika

  Individual, Dialogue, Universal

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• If the lives of men can be measured in terms of years, ideologies in decades, and nations in centuries, then the unit measuring civilizations, born of the interaction among peoples, would be the millennium.

  Abdelaziz Bouteflika

  Men, Years, Would Be

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• True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written, and writing what deserves to be read.

  Pliny the Elder

  Writing, Glory, Written

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• And we owe science to the combined energies of individual men of genius, rather than to any tendency to progress inherent in civilization.

  Chauncey Wright

  Men, Progress, Energy

  Chauncey Wright (2003). “Philosphical Discussions”, p.51, A&C Black

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• A lot of people thought of me as a threat to Western civilization.

  John Milius

  People, Threat, Western

  Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. May 7, 2003.

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• It's the Law of God that gave the stability to Christian civilization.

  Randall Terry

  Christian, Law, Stability

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• Our idea of what constitutes social good has advanced with the procession of the ages, from those desperate times when just to keep body and soul together was an achievement, to the great present when "good" includes an agreeable, stable civilization accessible to all, the opportunity of each to develop his particular genius and the privilege of mutual usefulness.

  Frances Perkins

  Opportunity, Ideas, Achievement

  Frances Perkins (1934). “People at work”

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• The city is the nerve center of our civilization. It is also the storm center.

  Josiah Strong

  Cities, Storm, Nerves

  Josiah Strong (1963). “Our Country”

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• Sunday is the core of our civilization, dedicated to thought and reverence.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Sunday, Sabbath, Dedicated

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2734, Delphi Classics

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• [T]he progress of civilization corresponds with the spread of general nausea.

  Edgar Saltus

  Progress, Nausea, Spread

  Edgar Saltus (1970). “The Philosophy of Disenchantment”

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• Ultimately, there is no compromise. Westerners will either retain their civilization, including the right to insult and blaspheme, or not.

  Daniel Pipes

  Comeback, Insult, Compromise

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• You know, our sense of individuality is just the number one target of civilization.

  Alan Rudolph

  Numbers, Individuality, Target

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Codi: Gives you the willies, doesn't it? The thought of raising kids in a place where the front yard ends in a two-hundred-foot drop? [referring to cliff dwellings] Loyd: No worse than raising up kids where the front yard ends in a freeway.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Kids, Two, Feet

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• Civilization is an active deposit which is formed by the combustion of the Present with the Past. Neither in countries without a Present nor in those without a Past is it to be encountered. Proust in Venice, Matisse's birdcages overlooking the flower market at Nice, Gide on the seventeenth-century quais of Toulon, Lorca in Granada, Picasso by Saint-Germain-des-Prés: there lies civilization and for me it can exist only under those liberal regimes in which the Present is alive and therefore capable of assimilating the Past.

  Cyril Connolly

  Country, Nice, Lying

  "The Unquiet Grave" by Cyril Connolly, (Part 2), 1951.

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• Man — despite his artistic pretensions, his sophistication, and his many accomplishments — owes his existence to a six inch layer of topsoil and the fact that it rains.

  Paul Harvey

  Rain, Men, Garden

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• Human civilization has been no more than a strange luminescence growing more intense by the hour, of which no one can say when it will begin to wane and when it will fade away.

  W. G. Sebald

  Growing, Strange, Intense

  W. G. Sebald (2016). “The Rings of Saturn”, p.101, New Directions Publishing

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• Every civilization sees itself as the center of the world and writes its history as the central drama of human history.

  Samuel P. Huntington

  Drama, Writing, World

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• When humor goes, there goes civilization.

  Erma Bombeck

  Happiness, Laughter, Humor

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• 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 will be killed.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Albert Einstein (2010). “Ideas And Opinions”, p.118, Broadway Books

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• All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution.

  Havelock Ellis

  Time, Volcanoes, Revolution

  'Little Essays of Love and Virtue' (1922) ch. 7

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

  Havelock Ellis

  Progress, Dies

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• One might enumerate the items of high civilization, as it exists in other countries, which are absent from the texture of American life, until it should become a wonder to know what was left.

  Henry James

  Country, Texture, Might

  'Hawthorne' (1879)

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• Civilization rests on the fact that most people do the right thing most of the time.

  Dean Koontz

  Love, Life, Sex

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

  Timothy Leary

  Society, Unbearable

  "Still Casting Shadows: A Shared Mosaic of U.s. History". Book by B. Clay Shannon, p. 376, 2006.

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