Human Civilization Quotes
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Civilization no longer needs to open up wilderness; it needs wilderness to help open up the still largely unexplored human mind.
— David Wallace
Whether science-and indeed civilization in general-can long survive depends upon psychology, that is to say, it depends upon what human beings desire.
— Bertrand Russell
The human landscape of the New World shows a conquest of nature by an intelligence that does not love it.
— Northrop Frye
I'm more into human nature than politics. But they're intertwined. Obviously, I live in civilization, so politics are part of my life.
— Bill Callahan
Where tillage begins, other arts follow. The farmers therefore are the founders of human civilization.
— Daniel Webster
The highest monuments of human civilization accept its ironies and lend their eternity to its mischievous pranks.
— Victor Hugo
We need to shift from an economic to a humanitarian organizing principle for human civilization. And women, en masse, should be saying so.
— Marianne Williamson
The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
A savage is simply a human organism that has not received enough news from the human race.
— John Ciardi
My goal is simple. It is to take the human civilization with me on the path of sweet general harmony.
— Abhijit Naskar
Technical civilization has made a great error in not suppressing death, the only human reality still intact
— Jacques Ellul
When all material advancements utilized in spiritual need that is the real advancement of human civilization.
— Bhakti Charu Swami
Civilization: the human zoo
— Marty Rubin
When the survival strategy of a civilization is invalidated, in all of human history none have ever turned back from the brink.
— Daniel Suarez
Our concern is not how to worship in the catacombs but how to remain human in the skyscrapers.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
If this is called civilization, then I am afraid humanity is no more civilized than the Tyrannosaurus Rex.
— Abhijit Naskar
O what we ben! And what we come to!
— Russell Hoban
Jesus wept; Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived the grace of present civilization.
— Victor Hugo
The human body is not necessarily a human being.
— Abhijit Naskar
Human civilization has always been preoccupied with erecting walls.
— Marcello Di Cintio
It is only through books that we partake of the great harvest that is human civilization across the ages.
— Ibrahim Babangida
Today, human civilization is drowning in a sea of lies.
— L. Neil Smith
Civilization consists in the multiplication and refinement of human wants.
— Robert Andrews Millikan
Human rights is a universal standard. It is a component of every religion and every civilization.
— Shirin Ebadi
The human civilization has gone extremely so far; that in return, we have lost the line between stupidity and spirituality.
— M.F. Moonzajer
If human civilization is going to invade the waters of the earth, then let it be first of all to carry a message of respect.
— Jacques-Yves Cousteau
Human is human," said Issib. "But civilized - that's the gift of the Oversoul. Civilization without self-destruction.
— Orson Scott Card
Everything we have of value as human beings - as a civilization - is the result of our intelligence.
— Stuart J. Russell
If human beings were really progressive creatures, then all boys would be smarter, healthier, and, wealthier, than their grandfathers.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Old Age homes are civilization's dumpsites for human beings who it cannot exploit further.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Human civilization is not something achieved against nature; it is rather the outcome of the working of the innate qualities of man.
— Ludwig Von Mises
To us the family is the cornerstone of civilization and must ever be. It is the foundation of proper human relationships.
— Mark E. Petersen
Civilization, to be worthy of the name, must afford other methods of settling human differences than those of blood letting.
— Ralph Chaplin
civilization is the very root cause of the woes of civilization
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
The global industrial economy is the engine for massive environmental degradation and massive human (and nonhuman) impoverishment.
— Derrick Jensen
Human civilization was annihilated in three hours, before even one alien bothered to set foot on the ground.
— Chris J. Randolph
The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.
— Sigmund Freud
Someone just broke pretty much all of human civilization overnight." The
— James S.A. Corey
I am well convinced that Aerial Navigation will form a most prominent feature in the progress of civilization. (1804)
— George Cayley
Human civilization as we know it is like the Titanic headed for the iceberg, whether the iceberg be nuclear, environmental or terrorism-related.
— Marianne Williamson
I think human arrogance will be the demise of civilization.
— Adam Ferrara
Nothing holds back human progress as frequently as the misbelief that the words 'impossible' and 'improbable' are synonyms.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Civilization itself is housed in the human being.
— Nayantara Sahgal
To me, the Holocaust stands alone as the most horrible human event in modern civilization.
— Robert Shapiro
What held the civilized world together was the thinnest tissue of nothing but human will.
— Paulette Jiles
The human heart as modern civilization has made it is more prone to hatred than to friendship. And it is prone to hatred because it is dissatisfied.
— Bertrand Russell
We are in the twilight of this earth. The societies and civilizations of human beings will not endure much longer because of their abuses of power.
— Frederick Lenz
Every civilization sees itself as the center of the world and writes its history as the central drama of human history.
— Samuel P. Huntington
Music and symbols, they're older than human race.
Prehuman beings used them to teach early mankind. — Toba Beta
Prehuman beings used them to teach early mankind. — Toba Beta
The transaction between writer and reader is human civilization's most dazzling feat, yet it's such a part of our lives that it's, well, prosaic.
— Patricia T. O'Conner
Every day, we grasped the true scope of the Apocalypse. And what we saw convinced us that human civilization had gone to hell.
— Manel Loureiro
The real triumph of civilization is the extent to which coercion is banished from human relations.
— Anthony Gregory
The sentence is the greatest human invention of civilization.
— John Banville
The earth is a fickle place for all life, not least the human project of civilization.
— James Howard Kunstler
Humans are naturally social; civilization causes us to be antisocial.
From my next book: The Five Forgotten Truths — Kirk D. Sinclair
From my next book: The Five Forgotten Truths — Kirk D. Sinclair
There is no salvation for civilization, or even the human race, other than the creation of a world government.
— Albert Einstein
The greatest advances in human civilization have come when we
recovered what we had lost: when we learned the lessons of history. — Winston Churchill
recovered what we had lost: when we learned the lessons of history. — Winston Churchill
More than any other time in history, the 1990s will be a turning point for human civilization.
— David Suzuki
You cannot organize civilization around the core of militarism and at the same time expect reason to control human destinies.
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
Human rights is the fruit of various civilizations.
— Shirin Ebadi
Please, never despise the translator. He's the mailman of human civilization.
— Alexander Pushkin