Quotes about Civilization

Modern people are just like ancient ones, only more numerous.

It is Love that will save our world and our civilization.

Peace on earth would mean the end of civilization as we know it.

If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized.

Further march of civilization seems to employ increasing domination of man over beast, together with a growingly humane method of using them.

For an America of wisdom that honors the family, knowing that if the family goes, so goes our civilization.

I have this feeling that as time goes on, we're not getting any more civilized, and we should be. We're still running around like the days of Genghis Khan. There are so many important, better things to do and we need to encourage people to reach into the brighter side of humanity and not encourage people to continue to glorify the darker side.

We are the most informed people in the history of civilization—and yet the most confused. Though our heads are crammed with knowledge, our hearts are empty.

The Pilgrims . . . put their ideals ahead of all material considerations. It is not surprising that the Pilgrims had little and succeeded, while we have much and are in danger of failing. No civilization can make progress unless some great principle is generously mixed into the mortar of its foundations in life.

It has always been a mark of decaying civilizations to become obsessed with sex. When people lose their way, their purpose, their will, and their goals, as well as their faith . . . they go "a whoring." It is a form of diversion that requires no thought, no character, and no restraint.

Ancient historians tell us that one of the symptoms of a declining civilization is a desexualization of the human race, with men becoming more effeminate and women becoming more masculine, not only in physical [appearance] but in their basic characters.

The Garden of Eden was somewhere in present-day Iraq. The turmoil and war [we are witnessing] in that part of the world... is occurring in the land where God established the first perfect civilization.