Quotes about Civilization
The true pioneer of civilization is not the newspaper, not religion, not the railroad - but whiskey!
- Mark Twain
Almighty God: Our sons, pride of our Nation, this day have set upon a mighty endeavor, a struggle to preserve our Republic, our religion, and our civilization, and to set free a suffering humanity.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Whatever sins Christians engaged in the past, and they were extensive, the fact is that the most humane and decent countries in the world nearly all have Christian origins. That is not true of states that grew out of Islam.
- Dennis Prager
This knowledge, the knowledge that the physical well-being of the citizen is an important foundation for all of the activities of the nation, is as old as Western civilization itself.
- John F. Kennedy
When man learns to understand and control his own behavior as well as he is learning to understand and control the behavior of crop plants and domestic animals, he may be justified in believing that he has become civilized.
- Ayn Rand
Jesus wept; Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived the grace of present civilization.
- Victor Hugo
Poland is not East or West. Poland is at the center of European civilization. It has contributed mightily to that civilization. It is doing so today by being magnificently unreconciled to oppression.
- Ronald Reagan
Free speech is not just another value. It's the foundation of Western civilization.
- Jordan Peterson
Christianity is the very root and foundation of Western civilization.
- Dinesh D'Souza
To be civilized is to be potentially master of all possible ideas, and that means that one has got beyond being shocked, although one preserves one's own moral aesthetic preferences.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
the highly respected macroeconomist Jeffrey Sachs has recently made an impassioned and well-argued case in his book The Price of Civilization that mindfulness needs to be at the heart of any attempt to resolve the major problems we face as a country and, by implication, as a world.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
Mythology -and therefore civilization- is a poetic, supernormal image, conceived, like all poetry, in depth, but susceptible of interpretation on various levels.
- Joseph Campbell