Civilization Quotes

"Civilization is the distance man has placed between himself and his excreta"

"The contribution of Islam to history and modern civilization is the product of the efforts of peoples of many races and tongues which came to accept its way of life"

"What is the thread of western civilization that distinguished its course in history? It has to do with the preoccupation of western man with his outward command and his sense of superiority"

"What most people don't seem to realize is that there is just as much money to be made out of the wreckage of a civilization as from the upbuilding of one"

"It will take a long time, and certainly the West will remain the dominant civilization well into the next century, but the decline is occurring"

"The new meaning of soul is creativity and mysticism. These will become the foundation of the new psychological type and with him or her will come the new civilization"

"We are all afraid for our confidence, for the future, for the world. That is the nature of the human imagination. Yet every man, every civilization, has gone forward because of its engagement with what it has set itself to do"

"I feel this is very important for us to have serene buildings because our civilization is chaotic as it is, you see; our whole machine age has brought about a chaos that has to be somehow counterbalanced, I think"

"The love of domination and an uncontrolled lust of arbitrary power have prevailed among all nations and perhaps in proportion to the degrees of civilization"

"Wherever an altar is found, there civilization exists"

"The destiny of world civilization depends upon providing a decent standard of living for all mankind"

"Civilization as it is known today could not have evolved, nor can it survive, without an adequate food supply"

"Civilization is unbearable, but it is less unbearable at the top"

"Real freedom lies in wildness, not in civilization"

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