Top Civilization Quotes

  • Civilization did not come with fire. It came with the discovery of how to use fire to heat water. – Laura Anne Gilman

    Civilization did not come with fire. It came with the discovery of how to use fire to heat water.– Laura Anne Gilman

  • I believe empathy is the most essential quality of civilization. – Roger Ebert

    I believe empathy is the most essential quality of civilization.– Roger Ebert

  • If one is searching for the cause of brutality in mankind, it would do well to remember that civilization is a great and vast machine. – Christopher Dutton

    If one is searching for the cause of brutality in mankind, it would do well to remember that civilization is a great and vast machine.– Christopher Dutton

  • [sic] his reaction was a sign of civilization. Nobody reaches for a gun anymore, just for his lawyer. – Peter F Hamilton

    [sic] his reaction was a sign of civilization. Nobody reaches for a gun anymore, just for his lawyer.– Peter F Hamilton

  • The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

    The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.– Ralph Waldo Emerson

  • The human civilization has gone extremely so far; that in return, we have lost the line between stupidity and spirituality. – MF Moonzajer

    The human civilization has gone extremely so far; that in return, we have lost the line between stupidity and spirituality.– MF Moonzajer

  • I am well convinced that Aerial Navigation will form a most prominent feature in the progress of civilization. (1804) – George Cayley

    I am well convinced that Aerial Navigation will form a most prominent feature in the progress of civilization. (1804)– George Cayley

  • So much for progress. How quickly civilization could dissolve into its more ugly elements. – Kate Atkinson

    So much for progress. How quickly civilization could dissolve into its more ugly elements.– Kate Atkinson

  • Intelligent discontent is the mainspring of civilization. Progress is born of agitation. It is agitation or stagnation. – Eugene V Debs

    Intelligent discontent is the mainspring of civilization. Progress is born of agitation. It is agitation or stagnation.– Eugene V Debs

  • Wherever we look, the work of the chemist has raised the level of our civilization and has increased the productive capacity of our nation. – Calvin Coolidge

    Wherever we look, the work of the chemist has raised the level of our civilization and has increased the productive capacity of our nation.– Calvin Coolidge