Civilization Quotes

The Bible tells us to be like God, and then on page after page it des...

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
📅︎ Dec 02
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"America is the only country that we...

"America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between." - Oscar Wilde
📅︎ Mar 11
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All our lauded technological progress, our ...

All our lauded technological progress, our very civilization, is like the axe in the hand of the pathological criminal. - Albert Einstein
📅︎ Feb 13
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"We'll sum it up in one sentence: mechanical ci...

"We'll sum it up in one sentence: mechanical civilization has just reached its final degree of savagery." — Albert Camus on the bombing of Hiroshima
📅︎ Feb 21
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The strength of a civilization is not measu...

The strength of a civilization is not measured by its ability to fight wars, but rather by its ability to prevent them. GENE RODDENBERRY.
📅︎ Feb 09
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“I'm not sure about automobiles, with a...

“I'm not sure about automobiles, with all their speed forward they may be a step backward in civilization” - Booth Tarkington
📅︎ Feb 12
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You can't say civilization don...

You can't say civilization don't advance... in every war they kill you in a new way. ~Will Rogers
📅︎ Feb 11
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"Every generation of western civil...

"Every generation of western civilization is invaded by barbarians - we call them 'children'" - Hannah Arendt
📅︎ Feb 04
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Civilization will reach maturity only...

Civilization will reach maturity only when it learns to value diversity of character and of ideas. ...Arthur C. Clarke
📅︎ Dec 30
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“There are essentially only two drugs that Western civilization tolerates: Caffeine from Monday...

“There are essentially only two drugs that Western civilization tolerates: Caffeine from Monday to Friday to energize you enough to make you a productive member of society, and alcohol from Friday to Monday to keep you too stupid to figure out the prison that you are living in.” —Bill Hicks
📅︎ Aug 13
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“Civilization is only savagery ...

“Civilization is only savagery silver-gilt.” Excerpt From 'Allan Quatermain' by Henry Rider Haggard
📅︎ Nov 23
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Trees cannot survive without Roots and ...

Trees cannot survive without Roots and Leaves. Civilizations cannot survive without Culture and Tradition. ~Infinite Radius
📅︎ Oct 22
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"Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involve...

"Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility" ~ Sigmund Freud (from the book "Civilization and Its Discontents")
📅︎ Jun 11
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"One of the indictments of civilizations i...

"One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person." — William Feather
📅︎ Jul 04
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“Civilization is t...

“Civilization is the history of conspiracy.” - Edward Snowden
📅︎ Oct 24
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“The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion, but rather ...

“The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion, but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.” ― Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order
📅︎ Jul 25
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"The world is littered wit...

"The world is littered with the ruins of civilizations that thought they were eternal"
📅︎ Jul 16
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“I think the first prerequisite t...

“I think the first prerequisite to civilization is an ability to make polite conversation.” -- W. H. Auden
📅︎ Jul 12
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"Freedom, the fatuous jingle of our civilization. ...

"Freedom, the fatuous jingle of our civilization. But only those of us deprived of it have an inkling of what it really is." - Timothy Cavendish, Cloud Atlas
📅︎ Sep 26
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"Civilization is a failure. We n...

"Civilization is a failure. We need to think what we can do together in love and peace." -Serj Tankian
📅︎ Oct 03
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"If a superior alien civilization sent us a message saying, "We'll arrive in a few d...

"If a superior alien civilization sent us a message saying, "We'll arrive in a few decades," would we just reply, "OK, call us when you get here – we'll leave the lights on"? Probably not – but this is more or less what is happening with AI." -Stephen Hawking
📅︎ Aug 16
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"Every prophet has to come from civilization, but every prophet has to go into the wilderness. ...

"Every prophet has to come from civilization, but every prophet has to go into the wilderness. He must have a strong impression of a complex society and all that it has to give, and then he must serve periods of isolation and meditation. This is the process by which psychic dynamite is made."
📅︎ Aug 10
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"In the twenty-first century, the robot ...

"In the twenty-first century, the robot will take the place which slave labor occupied in ancient civilization." - Nikola Tesla
📅︎ Jul 24
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"One eternal engine of thought for one kilogram of mass-energy" ― Isaac Arth...

"One eternal engine of thought for one kilogram of mass-energy" ― Isaac Arthur, Civilizations at the End of Time: Iron Stars (the theory that 6 * 10^34 people can be simulated per kilogram of matter with reversible computing...forever)
📅︎ Jun 14
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"When we know that to take care of one life we have to take care of all life—and that life includ...

"When we know that to take care of one life we have to take care of all life—and that life includes what we say, how we act, what we do, and what we honor—that is the beginning of the sacred embodiment that leads to true civilization." —Paul Hawken Interview by Clark Strand, "Movement with No Name"
📅︎ May 22
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"Civilization is the process ...

"Civilization is the process of reducing the infinite to the finite." — Oliver Wendell Holmes
📅︎ May 22
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“It goes without saying that a civilization which leaves so large a n...

“It goes without saying that 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.” ― Sigmund Freud
📅︎ Sep 16
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"In our advanced state of civilization and relative existential comfort as a species, we should r...

"In our advanced state of civilization and relative existential comfort as a species, we should remember to now expedite our evolutionary process and control it. We must push the boundaries of what it means to be human, venture into places unknown, and continue Nature's imperative." - Ravi Silari
📅︎ Jun 18
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"But beauty has its own laws, inconsistent with Christian morality. As a woman...

"But beauty has its own laws, inconsistent with Christian morality. As a woman, I feel free to protest that men today are pilloried for something that was rational and honorable in Greece at the height of its civilization." - Camille Paglia
📅︎ May 09
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Islam is a replacement theology. I...

Islam is a replacement theology. It takes over civilizations it does not coexist, it subjugates. Michael Pine
📅︎ Mar 22
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"Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books...

"Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill." - Barbara Tuchman
📅︎ Feb 01
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"Package the demise of a civilizatio...

"Package the demise of a civilization as entertainment, and it shall be consumed as entertainment" - Rudolf P Belmar
📅︎ Feb 07
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"Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The s...

"Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men." - Ayn Rand
📅︎ Jan 29
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The purpose of a writer is...

The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself. Albert Camus
📅︎ Jan 29
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“The degree of civilization in ...

“The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.” -Fyodor Dostoevsky
📅︎ Feb 09
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"Haven't you struggled? Haven't I struggled? Hasn't Civilizatio...

"Haven't you struggled? Haven't I struggled? Hasn't Civilization struggled? Today, struggling is still primitive in some parts of the world. In others, struggling is highly sophisticated." - Anon
📅︎ Dec 24
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Put CIVIL back...

Put CIVIL back into CIVILization - Faith Lynella
📅︎ Jan 11
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"The end of the human race will ...

"The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization." — Ralph Waldo Emerson
📅︎ Nov 29
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The purpose of a writer is...

The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself. Albert Camus
📅︎ Oct 15
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"While some have expressed momentous reservations about this edifice of clapt...

"While some have expressed momentous reservations about this edifice of claptrap known as civilization, this colossally garish spectacle of bad taste, we do not often pass up an opportunity to commend ourselves for erecting it." - Ligotti
📅︎ Oct 12
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“When kids look up to great scientists the wa...

“When kids look up to great scientists the way they do to great musicians and actors, civilization will jump to the next level” ― Brian Greene
📅︎ Sep 28
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"It has been said that civilizati...

"It has been said that civilization is twenty-four hours and two meals away from barbarism." - Neil Gaiman
📅︎ Dec 04
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"Civilization is what old men mana...

"Civilization is what old men manage to salvage from the onslaught of young idealists." - Nicolás Gómez Dávila
📅︎ Oct 11
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