Civilization Quotes

"Beauty has no obvious use; nor is there any clear cultural necessity for it. Yet civilization could not do without it." "A civilization which leaves so large a number of its participants unsatisfied and drives them into revolt neither has nor deserves the prospect of a lasting existence." "The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization." "If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships, the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world at peace." "Suffering is civilization" "The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself" "We are morphing so fast that our ability to invent new things outpaces the rate we can civilize them." "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." "A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world" "Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock." "The spread of civilization may be likened to a fire; first, a feeble spark, next a flickering flame, then a mighty blaze, ever increasing in speed and power" "History began when humans invented gods, and will end when humans become gods" "Throughout history, population size and innovation levels are linked" "Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any authentic creation is a gift to the future." "America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between." "Without memory, there is no culture. Without memory, there would be no civilization, no society, no future." "We only have to look at ourselves to see how intelligent life might develop into something we wouldn’t want to meet." "We did not domesticate wheat. It domesticated us." "Civilization will not attain to its perfection until the last stone from the last church falls on the last priest" "For a country is considered the more civilized the more the wisdom and efficiency of its laws hinder a weak man from becoming too weak or a powerful one too powerful"