Civilization and profit go hand in hand.
Mankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell.
If any civilization is to survive, it is the morality of altruism that men have to reject.
If a test of civilization be sought, none can be so sure as the condition of that half of society over which the other half has power.
Civilization consists in the multiplication and refinement of human wants.
America is experiencing an Islamist cultural-political offensive designed to undermine and destroy our civilization.
Education is the transmission of civilization.
Must simplicity and humanity go under in the interest of progress? What is the most important component of civilization - is it human or mechanical? Must thought processes become involved and insincere? Must the class-struggle warp those who are involved in it?
A pioneer destroys things and calls it civilization.
The women of Afghanistan, left behind as their men fought, did what the women of World War II did - used their wits and resourcefulness to preserve some semblance of civilization.
Through the wholesale destruction of the representatives of a class that from the beginning of history had been the directing and creative force in civilization, a process began which was almost mechanical.
I've managed to dodge the curse. Not all my family have. Of course, music helped me - music is all about civilization, about something worthwhile. It's all about ideas.
Today, human civilization is drowning in a sea of lies.
Hold fast to the Bible. To the influence of this Book we are indebted for all the progress made in true civilization and to this we must look as our guide in the future.
All over the world the wildlife that I write about is in grave danger. It is being exterminated by what we call the progress of civilization.
Casper Wyo., population 18,000 when I was born, was large enough to hold the surprises of civilization, but small enough that the prairie was close by - for some in our town, right out the front door - stretching on forever, under the great curving sky.
Cities have always been the fireplaces of civilization, whence light and heat radiated out into the dark.
Well, we can't afford blindness anymore. There are tens of thousands of thugs who loathe liberty and love death, and want to annihilate Western civilization.
Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men.
Iraq is no diversion. It is a place where civilization is taking a decisive stand against chaos and terror, we must not waver.
As the grandson of Italian immigrants, maybe I am biased, but I think Christopher Columbus, the man who is rightfully credited with bringing European civilization to the Western Hemisphere, deserves the national holiday enacted by Congress in 1934.
I believe that, if managed well, the Fourth Industrial Revolution can bring a new cultural renaissance, which will make us feel part of something much larger than ourselves: a true global civilization. I believe the changes that will sweep through society can provide a more inclusive, sustainable and harmonious society. But it will not come easily.
It is the recognition of history as a record of human experience which has inevitably resulted in the inclusion of this conquest of civilization within the framework of a complete human history.
The destiny of world civilization depends upon providing a decent standard of living for all mankind.
I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two-thirds of the people of the earth will be killed.
What it values most of all is the sum total of events and the advance of civilization, which carries individuals along with it; but, indifferent to details, it cares less to have them real than noble or, rather, grand and complete.
Imagination has brought mankind through the dark ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination led Columbus to discover America. Imagination led Franklin to discover electricity.
Civilization is the limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.
Civilization is unbearable, but it is less unbearable at the top.
I leave to the militarists the difficult task of trying to explain to us how these wars have served to shape character or to promote the progress of civilization or to achieve the reign of justice on earth. So far, they have not come forward with the explanation.
By 3000 B.C. the art of Egypt was so ripe and so far advanced that it is surprising to find any student of early culture proposing that the crude contemporary art of the early Babylonians is the product of a civilization earlier than that of the Nile.
Wherever an altar is found, there civilization exists.
Civilization is the lamb's skin in which barbarism masquerades.
The Industrial Revolution was another of those extraordinary jumps forward in the story of civilization.
One might enumerate the items of high civilization, as it exists in other countries, which are absent from the texture of American life, until it should become a wonder to know what was left.
It has been well said that tea is suggestive of a thousand wants, from which spring the decencies and luxuries of civilization.
