Famous Quotes & Sayings

Katherine Mansfield

How idiotic civilization is! Why be given a body if you have to keep it shut up in a case like a rare, rare fiddle?

Julia Ward Howe

The broken eggshell of a civilization which time has hatched and devoured.

Julian Assange

The internet, our greatest tool of emancipation, has been transformed into the most dangerous facilitator of totalitarianism we have ever seen. The internet is a threat to human civilization.

Huston Smith

It is commonly said and known that each civilization has its own religion. Now my claim is that if we look deeper, the different civilizations were brought into being by the different revelations.

Huston Smith

It has been estimated that one third of our Western civilization bears the mark of its Jewish ancestry.

J. M. Coetzee

Where civilization entailed the corruption of barbarian virtues and the creation of dependent people, I decided, I was opposed to civilization.

H. G. Wells

Let us get together with other people of our sort and make over the world into a great world-civilization that will enable us to realize the promises and avoid the dangers of this new time.

J. Robert Oppenheimer

We may anticipate a state of affairs in which two Great Powers will each be in a position to put an end to the civilization and life of the other, though not without risking its own. We may be likened to two scorpions in a bottle, each capable of killing the other, but only at the risk of his own life.

Gene Cernan

I've been asked about UFOs and I've said publicly I thought they were somebody else, some other civilization.

Jerry Brown

Okay, so what we really have to recognize and own as Americans is that our way of being is itself perhaps the greatest threat to the continuation of civilization.

Jeane Kirkpatrick

All of us confront limits of body, talent, temperament. But that is not all. We are, all of us, also constrained by our time, our place, our civilization.

Honore de Balzac

If youth were not ignorant and timid, civilization would be impossible.

Immanuel Kant

The greatest problem for the human species, the solution of which nature compels him to seek, is that of attaining a civil society which can administer justice universally.

Irving Babbitt

The papacy again, representing the traditional unity of European civilization, has also shown itself unable to limit effectively the push of nationalism.

Jose Rizal

Death has always been the first sign of European civilization when introduced in the Pacific.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

Civilization is nothing else but the attempt to reduce force to being the last resort.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

The cynic, a parasite of civilization, lives by denying it, for the very reason that he is convinced that it will not fail.

Jose Bergamin

A German immersed in any civilization different from his own loses a weight equivalent in volume to the amount of intelligence he displaces.

Mahatma Gandhi

Civilization is not an incurable disease, but it should never be forgotten that the English people are at present afflicted by it.

James Norman Hall

When urbanity decays, civilization suffers and decays with it.

Emile M. Cioran

A civilization begins to decline the moment Life becomes its sole obsession.

Emile M. Cioran

A decadent civilization compromises with its disease, cherishes the virus infecting it, loses its self-respect.

Ellen Lupton

Are some free fonts a gift to humanity rather than a blight on typographic civilization ?

Western civilization shapes the content of my films, provides me with subjects that haven't been used before.

Eric Schmidt

There were 5 Exabytes of information created between the dawn of civilization through 2003, but that much information is now created every 2 days.

Hiroshi Sugimoto

I feel that I'm in a very interesting position, where I'm standing back to look at this change, at this moment in history of human beings. If the end of the civilization comes before the end of my life, that's lucky! I want to witness how this big story of humans ends.

Here the Frenchman, Spaniard, and Englishman all passed, leaving each his legend; and a brilliant and more or less feudal civilization with its aristocracy and slaves has departed with the economic system upon which it rested.

Henry Rollins

When Black Flag and DOA and all those bands were touring in the early 80s, it was kind of a forest and you just kind of got your way through it. Now it's like a six lane highway with Starbucks every twenty meters. That's just civilization.

Hideki Tojo

Justice has nothing to do with victor nations and vanquished nations, but must be a moral standard that all the world's peoples can agree to. To seek this and to achieve it - that is true civilization

Henry Ward Beecher

There can be no high civilization where there is not ample leisure.

Henry Ward Beecher

In America there is not one single element of civilization that is not made to depend, in the end, upon public opinion.

Helen Suzman

[To the South African parliament:] I do not know why we equate - and with the examples before us - a white skin with civilization.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Civilization does everything for the mind and favors it entirely at the expense of the body.