Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Grodin

I don't want to have anything to do with the government. And yet if we don't have any regulations, there goes civilization, there goes security, and there goes protecting you against what people are going to sell you.

Charles Fourier

The method of doubt must be applied to civilization; we must doubt its necessity, its excellence, and its permanence.

Charles Fourier

Civilization is a social plague on the planet, and vices are just as necessary to it as is a virus to disease.

Bill Mauldin

Certainly none of the advances made in civilization has been due to counterrevolutionaries and advocates of the status quo.

Benjamin Hooks

The most enduring contributions made to civilization have not been made by brawn, they have been made by brain.

Bjarne Stroustrup

Our civilization depends critically on software, and we have a dangerously low degree of professionalism in the computer fields

Bill Gates

Really advanced civilization is based on advances in energy.

Derrick Jensen

Civilization is not and can never be sustainable.

Derrick Jensen

From the beginning, this culture - civilization - has been a culture of occupation.

Derrick Jensen

Civilization can never be sustainable.

Derrick Jensen

No matter what we call it, poison is still poison, death is still death, and industrial civilization is still causing the greatest mass extinction in the history of the planet.

Derrick Jensen

Civilization is based on a clearly defined and widely accepted yet often unarticulated hierarchy. Violence done by those higher on the hierarchy to those lower is nearly always invisible, that is, unnoticed. When it is noticed, it is fully rationalized. Violence done by those lower on the hierarchy to those higher is unthinkable, and when it does occur is regarded with shock, horror, and the fetishization of the victims.

Elizabeth Janeway

Poets are the leaven in the lump of civilization.

Arthur Keith

Tolerance is held to be a condition of mind which is encouraged by, and is necessary for, civilization.

Arthur Keith

It is just because civilization is ever evolving, changing, and becoming more complicated, that experts find it so difficult to define it in explicit terms.

Diane Ravitch

Of course, all students should learn African history, as they should learn the history of other continents and major civilizations. But this history should be taught accurately and based on the best scholarship, not ideology or politics.

Dennis Prager

America became a great civilization thanks to a culture based on the value of having to earn almost everything an American got in life. As it abandons this value, it will become a mediocre civilization. And eventually it will not be America. It will be a large Sweden, and just as influential as the smaller one.

Denis Hayes

When civilization stands at the edge of a cliff, a step forward doesn't make much sense.

Charles Lindbergh

Aviation has struck a delicately balanced world, a world where stability was already giving way to the pressure of new dynamic forces, a world dominated by a mechanical, materialist, Western European civilization.

Charles Lindbergh

Our survival, the future of our civilization, possibly the existence of mankind, depends on American leadership

Charles Lindbergh

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

David Wallace

Civilization no longer needs to open up wilderness; it needs wilderness to help open up the still largely unexplored human mind.

Dean Koontz

The destruction that barbarians leave behind has a grim fascination, doesn't it? We're reminded how thin is the veneer of civilization.

Edgar Mitchell

The main problem is that we, as an Earth civilization, have not come to understand ourselves - see ourselves in a cosmic sense at all.

Edgar Mitchell

Transcendence gets you beyond ego. If you go beyond ego, you see all of this in a more decent perspective and you can start to put all the pieces together. We haven't done that yet. Not as a civilization.

Elbert Hubbard

The path of civilization is paved with tin cans.

Elbert Hubbard

Respectability is the dickey on the bosom of civilization.

Edward Abbey

There has never yet been a human society worthy of the name of civilization. Civilization remains a remote ideal.

Dirk Benedict

You can't leave civilization behind entirely.

David Bowie

Style is about the choices you make to create the aspects of civilization that you wish to uphold.

Mahmoud Abbas

so it will become a model of civilization for the rest of the world.

Edgar Cayce

Arcturus is the highest civilization in our galaxy,

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Labor, with its coarse raiment and its bare right arm, has gone forth in the earth, achieving the truest conquests and rearing the most durable monuments. It has opened the domain of matter and the empire of the mind. The wild beast has fled before it, and the wilderness has fallen back.... its triumphal march is the progress of civilization.