Quotes about Civilization

Moreover, the papal system has opposed the march of civilization and liberty throughout the world, by denouncing the circulation of the Bible, and the general diffusion of knowledge. Turn to every land where popery predominates, and you will find an ignorant and debased peasantry, a profligate nobility, and a priesthood, licentious, avaricious, domineering and cruel.

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.

You see, we're all savages, more or less. We're supposed to be civilized and cultured—to know all about poetry and philosophy and art and science, and so on; but how many of us know even the meanings of these names?

If we desire a certain type of civilisation and culture we must exterminate the sort of people who do not fit into it.

The law is the last result of human wisdom acting upon human experience for the benefit of the public.

There have been three great inventions since the beginning of time: fire, the wheel, and central banking.

There are many humorous things in the world; among them, the white man's notion that he is less savage than the other savages.

After the struggle for sheer existence, they had no energy left for a civilization.

And when you redefine the family other than what the Creator intended when he established it, then you look at the devolution of civilization.

Sensible and responsible women do not want to vote. The relative positions to be assumed by man and woman in the working out of our civilization were assigned long ago by a higher intelligence than ours.

If any civilization is to survive, it is the morality of altruism that men have to reject.

Christians in Germany will face the terrible alternative of either willing the defeat of their nation in order that Christian civilization may survive, or willing the victory of their nation and thereby destroying our civilization.