Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

Civilization is the world with its leg asleep.

Bruce Sterling

Maybe we're about to radically change the operating system of the human condition. If so, then this would be a really good time to make backups of our civilization.

Arthur Koestler

I am not sure whether ethical absolutes exist. But I am sure that we have to act as if they existed or civilization perishes.

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.

Aharon Appelfeld

The writer in western civilization has become not a voice of his tribe, but of his individuality. This is a very narrow-minded situation.

Mahmoud Abbas

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

Rick Perlstein

Conservatives are time-biders. And they understand, as Corey Robin explains in his indispensable book 'The Reactionary Mind,' that the direction of human history is not on their side - that is why they are reactionaries - because, other things equal, civilization does tend towards more inclusion, more emancipation, more liberalism.

Frank Pierson

Movies are more than a commodity. Movies are to our civilization what dreams and ideals are to individual lives: They express the mystery and help define the nature of who we are and what we are becoming.

Orison Swett Marden

Whoever uplifts civilization is rich though he die penniless, and future generations will erect his monument.

Rudy Giuliani

Civilization must stand up and combat the current collapse of governance, the rise of violence, and the spread of chaos and fear in many parts of the world.

Alexander Pushkin

Please, never despise the translator. He's the mailman of human civilization.

Allen Ginsberg

The Jews always complained, kvetching about false gods, and erected the biggest false God, Jehovah, in middle of western civilization.

Allan Bloom

We are like ignorant shepherds living on a site where great civilizations once flourished.

Ann Coulter

You will find liberals always rooting for savages against civilization.

Andrew Carnegie

Upon the sacredness of property civilization itself depends - the right of the laborer to his hundred dollars in the savings bank, and equally the legal right of the millionaire to his millions

It seems to me we are now, since 1789, going through the same sort of process of regeneration the Roman world went through between 300 and 500. It is only to be hoped all civilization will not again be destroyed by the anarchists.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

Our concern is not how to worship in the catacombs but how to remain human in the skyscrapers.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

In the midst of our applauding the feats of civilization, the Bible flings itself like a knife slashing our complacency; remind us that God, too, has a voice in history.

Alex Smith

One mind awake can become stronger than a thousand zombies sleepwalking in a dying civilization.

Albert Einstein

... we will hope that future historians will explain the morbid symptoms of present-day society as the childhood ailments of an aspiring humanity, due entirely to the excessive speed at which civilization was advancing.

Alfred North Whitehead

It must be admitted that there is a degree of instability which is inconsistent with civilization. But, on the whole, the great ages have been unstable ages.

Alfred North Whitehead

Civilizations can only be understood by those who are civilized.

Aldous Huxley

Did you eat something that didn't agree with you?" asked Bernard. The Savage nodded "I ate civilization.

Aldous Huxley

I ate civilization. It poisoned me; I was defiled. And then," he added in a lower tone, "I ate my own wickedness.

Aldous Huxley

Civilization is sterilization.

Aldous Huxley

God isn't compatible with machinery and scientific medicine and universal happiness. You must make your choice. Our civilization has chosen machinery and medicine and happiness.

Aberjhani

Love as a concrete foundation for an authentically functional civilization requires the around-the-clock labors of forgiveness. Without it, Love fails, Friendship fails, Intelligence fails, Humanity: fails.