Civilization Quotes - Page 7

• 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.

  John Perry Barlow

  Technology, Government, Mind

  "On Cat Videos and Human Rights" by Christina Gagnier, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 15, 2010.

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• You can't leave civilization behind entirely.

  Dirk Benedict

  Behinds

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• The personal life of every individual is based on secrecy, and perhaps it is partly for that reason that civilized man is so nervously anxious that personal privacy should be respected.

  Anton Chekhov

  Men, Privacy, Reason

  Anton Chekhov (2010). “Five Plays”, p.5, Stanford University Press

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• We have always been taught that navigation is the result of civilization, but modern archeology has demonstrated very clearly that this is not so.

  Thor Heyerdahl

  Taught, Navigation, Modern

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• Civil confusions often spring from trifles but decide great issues.

  Aristotle

  Spring, Issues, Confusion

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• No matter how much restriction civilization imposes on the individual, he nevertheless finds some way to circumvent it. Wit is the best safety valve modern man has evolved; the more civilization, the more repression, the more need there is for wit.".

  Sigmund Freud

  Men, Safety, Needs

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• Extremes produce reaction. Beware that our boasted civilization does not lapse into barbarism.

  Antoine Rivarol

  Doe, Lapses, Reactions

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• In emerging democracies like Russia, in authoritarian states like Iran or even Yugoslavia, journalists play a vital role in civil society. In fact, they form the very basis of those new democracies and civil societies.

  Christiane Amanpour

  Play, Russia, Iran

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• A man's labor is not only his capital but his life. When it passes it returns never more. To utilize it, to prevent its wasteful squandering, to enable the poor man to bank it up for use hereafter, this surely is one of the most urgent tasks before civilization.

  William Booth

  Work, Men, Tasks

  William Booth (1890). “In Darkest England, and the Way Out”

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• Barbarism recommences by the excess of civilization.

  Alphonse de Lamartine

  Excess, Barbarism

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• A semi-civilized state of society, equally removed from the extremes of barbarity and of refinement, seems to be that particular meridian under which all the reciprocities and gratuities of hospitality do most readily flourish and abound. For it so happens that the ease, the luxury, and the abundance of the highest state of civilization, are as productive of selfishness, as the difficulties, the privations, and the sterilities of he lowest.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Luxury, Selfishness, Ease

  Charles Caleb Colton (1821). “Lacon: or, Many things in few words”, p.227

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• When you can’t do something truly useful, you tend to vent the pent up energy in something useless but available, like snappy dressing.

  Lois McMaster Bujold

  Energy, Useless, Dressings

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• The line of least resistance in the progress of civilization is to make that theoretical postulate real by the continually increasing force of the world's public opinion.

  Elihu Root

  Real, Progress, Public Opinion

  Elihu Root (1916). “Addresses on International Subjects”

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• As long as art is the beauty parlor of civilization, neither art nor civilization is secure.

  John Dewey

  Art, Long, Insecurity

  John Dewey, Debra Morris, Ian Shapiro (1993). “The Political Writings”, p.93, Hackett Publishing

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• It is the habitual carriage of the umbrella that is the stamp of Respectability. Robinson Crusoe was rather a moralist than a pietist, and his leaf-umbrella is as fine an example of the civilised mind striving to express itself under adverse circumstances as we have ever met with.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Mind, Example, Strive

  Robert Louis Stevenson (1908). “Robert Louis Stevenson”

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• God requireth not a uniformity of religion to be enacted in any civil state; which enforced uniformity (sooner or later) is the greatest occasion of civil war, ravishing of conscience, persecution of Christ Jesus in his servants, and of the hypocrisy and destruction of millions of souls.

  Roger Williams

  Jesus, War, Hypocrisy

  Roger Williams, John Cotton, John Murton (1848). “The Bloudy Tenent of Persecution for Cause of Conscience Discussed: And Mr. Cotton's Letter Examined and Answered”, p.2

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• 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.

  Slobodan Milosević

  Moving, People, Needs

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• Everyone believes that the prospect for a civil war has diminished significantly over the past several days. All the mainstream leaders of Iraq believe that civil war must be avoided. It's very positive that they are all saying it.

  Zalmay Khalilzad

  War, Believe, Past

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• Not a single piece of material culture - not a single object - has been found at Giza that can be interpreted to come from a lost civilization.

  Zahi Hawass

  Culture, Pieces, Lost

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• To be a man is to feel that one's own stone contributes to building the edifice of the world.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Men, World, Stones

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• If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Education, Freedom, War

  Letter to Colonel Charles Yancey, 6 January 1816

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• The history of our civilization has been one of intermittent war.

  John Boyd Orr

  War, Intermittent, Has Beens

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• When urbanity decays, civilization suffers and decays with it.

  James Norman Hall

  Suffering, Decay

  James Norman Hall (1942). “Under a Thatched Roof”

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• Our civilization is now in the transition stage between the age of warring empires and a new age of world unity and peace.

  John Boyd Orr

  Unity, Age, Empires

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• In this respect, the history of science, like the history of all civilization, has gone through cycles.

  Abdus Salam

  Respect, Gone, History Of Science

  Abdus Salam, Ahmed Ali (1994). “Selected Papers of Abdus Salam: (with Commentary)”, p.306, World Scientific

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