We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.
- Albert Einstein
Civilization Quotes and Sayings
We must remember that any oppression, any injustice, any hatred, is a wedge designed to attack our civilization.
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt
A civilization is a heritage of beliefs, customs, and knowledge slowly accumulated in the course of centuries, elements difficult at times to justify by logic, but justifying themselves as paths when they lead somewhere, since they open up for man his inner distance.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Civilization is hideously fragile… there’s not much between us and the Horrors underneath, just about a coat of varnish.
- C.P. Snow
It was the Law of the Sea, they said. Civilization ends at the waterline. Beyond that, we all enter the food chain, and not always right at the top.
- Hunter S. Thompson
The gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature, and poetry, and all that is spiritual.
- John Muir
Mankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell.
- George Orwell
America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
- Oscar Wilde
The development of civilization and industry in general has always shown itself so active in the destruction of forests that everything that has been done for their conservation and production is completely insignificant in comparison.
- Karl Marx
Is man’s civilization only a wrappage, through which the savage nature of him can still burst, infernal as ever?
- Thomas Carlyle
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
Individual commitment to a group effort – that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.
- Vince Lombardi