Civilization Quotes

"The center of Western culture is Greece, and we have never lost our ties with the architectural concepts of that ancient civilization"

Stephen Gardiner, Architect

"If civilization had been left in female hands we would still be living in grass huts"

Camille Paglia, Author

"Iraq is no diversion. It is a place where civilization is taking a decisive stand against chaos and terror, we must not waver"

George W. Bush, President

"Sensible and responsible women do not want to vote. The relative positions to be assumed by man and woman in the working out of our civilization were assigned long ago by a higher intelligence than ours"

Grover Cleveland, President

"One of the tests of the civilization of people is the treatment of its criminals"

Rutherford B. Hayes, President

"When humor goes, there goes civilization"

Erma Bombeck, Journalist

"It was the Law of the Sea, they said. Civilization ends at the waterline. Beyond that, we all enter the food chain, and not always right at the top"

Hunter S. Thompson, Journalist

"We think we've got it taken care of now. Multiplayer is something that's hard to do in a turn-based game, especially a turn-based game that lasts a long time, like Civilization"

Sid Meier, Scientist

"Right now we're working on finishing up Pirates! for the Xbox, we're developing Civilization IV and we've got a couple other games in development that we'll tell you about soon"

Sid Meier, Scientist

"The Bible tells us to be like God, and then on page after page it describes God as a mass murderer. This may be the single most important key to the political behavior of Western Civilization"

Robert Anton Wilson, Writer

"If any civilization is to survive, it is the morality of altruism that men have to reject"

Ayn Rand, Writer

"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, Writer

"A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values"

Ezra Pound, Poet

"The test of civilization is its estimate of women"

George William Curtis, Author

"Barbarism is needed every four or five hundred years to bring the world back to life. Otherwise it would die of civilization"

Edmond De Goncourt, Writer

"Disinterested intellectual curiosity is the life blood of real civilization"

G. M. Trevelyan, Historian

"We must plant the sea and herd its animals using the sea as farmers instead of hunters. That is what civilization is all about - farming replacing hunting"

Jacques Yves Cousteau, Explorer

"The greatest task before civilization at present is to make machines what they ought to be, the slaves, instead of the masters of men"

Henry Ellis, Psychologist

"As I have said for many years throughout this land, we're borrowing money from China to buy oil from the Persian Gulf to burn it in ways that destroy the future of human civilization. Every bit of that has to change"

Al Gore, Vice President

"Hold fast to the Bible. To the influence of this Book we are indebted for all the progress made in true civilization and to this we must look as our guide in the future"

Ulysses S. Grant, President

"Art is like a border of flowers along the course of civilization"

Lincoln Steffens, Journalist

"A lot of people thought of me as a threat to Western civilization"

John Milius, Director

"It is what you do from now on that will either move our civilization forward a few tiny steps, or else... begin to march us steadily backward"

Patrick Stewart, Actor

"Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill"

Barbara Tuchman, Historian

"The only people who steal are thieves, and that's a very small percentage of civilization. Most people want to have some way to make the economic transaction valid. They want to return the favor, if you will... return the benefit and reciprocate"

Michael Nesmith, Musician

"Well, right now, I'm very fascinated with 1920s Berlin. I mean, probably the more interesting thing would be to go to the beginning of civilization or precivilization - like polytheistic times. It would be interesting to see what came before modern religion and culture - what circumstances created the environment or the need for it"

Natalie Portman, Actress

"I am especially grateful, however, to have known the fifties, before we began to poison our own civilization - or at least before the effects of the poison began to be felt"

Orson Scott Card, Writer

"Thus lynch law held sway in the far West until civilization spread into the Territories and the orderly processes of law took its place. The emergency no longer existing, lynching gradually disappeared from the West"

Ida B. Wells, Activist

"This is the reality of nuclear weapons: they may trigger a world war; a war which, unlike previous ones, destroys all of civilization"

Joseph Rotblat, Physicist

"I have increasingly, over the years, felt that religion today does our civilization more harm than good"

Mary Douglas, Scientist

"I have to bring to your notice a terrifying reality: with the development of nuclear weapons Man has acquired, for the first time in history, the technical means to destroy the whole of civilization in a single act"

Joseph Rotblat, Physicist

"If civilization has risen from the Stone Age, it can rise again from the Wastepaper Age"

Jacques Barzun, Educator

"Internationalism is a community theory of society which is founded on economic, spiritual, and biological facts. It maintains that respect for a healthy development of human society and of world civilization requires that mankind be organized internationally"

Christian Lous Lange, Politician

"History shows us that other highly developed forms of civilization have collapsed. Who knows whether the same fate does not await our own?"

Christian Lous Lange, Politician

"The sovereign state has in our times become a lethal danger to human civilization because technical developments enable it to employ an infinite number and variety of means of destruction"

Christian Lous Lange, Politician

"You can't leave civilization behind entirely"

Dirk Benedict, Actor

"Beware how you trifle with your marvelous inheritance, this great land of ordered liberty, for if we stumble and fall, freedom and civilization everywhere will go down in ruin"

Henry Cabot Lodge, Politician

"Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men"

Jane Addams, Activist

"Of course, one way of thinking about all of life and civilization is as being about how the world registers and processes information. Certainly that's what sex is about; that's what history is about"

Seth Lloyd, Educator

"The condition of the tribes which occupy the country set apart for them in the West is highly prosperous, and encourages the hope of their early civilization. They have for the most part abandoned the hunter state and turned their attention to agricultural pursuits"

Martin Van Buren, President

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