Civilization Quotes Quotes & Sayings

What does the future look like? I don't know how to answer this question, but for the bettering of man's future, I would like for a civilization of knowledge to exist on our planet in the not too distant future. — Eraldo Banovac

My former identity was lying around, somewhere, fragmented and buried, like shards from an earlier civilization. — Laurie Nadel

Nothing holds back human progress as frequently as the misbelief that the words 'impossible' and 'improbable' are synonyms. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

civilization is the very root cause of the woes of civilization — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Dear God, if you are a season, let it be the one I passed through
to get here.

Here. That's all I wanted to be.

I promise. — Ocean Vuong

Why read? Because books are precious guides to our humanity - civilization's backbone - that tenuous ridgeline that allows us to climb above the jungle and see what the horizon has to offer. Thus they represent the yearning to go beyond, to explore. Yet they are also human-sized. And made of paper and ink, and thus they come from the earth. Their physicality is what makes them immensely human. And they contain the flesh-and-bone thoughts of one person capturing one blink of time, now made immortal in the bound pages carried by your own hands and touched by your own eyes. How can such fragile and thin paper and spidery veins of ink be our most precious treasure, binding together the entire hope and legacy and language of a civilization - of our existence. We touch the book and turn the page, and thus we are bound to our destiny. — Carew Papritz

Special emphasis should be laid on this intimate interrelation of general statements about empirical fact with the logical elements and structure of theoretical systems. — Talcott Parsons

My goal is simple. It is to take the human civilization with me on the path of sweet general harmony. — Abhijit Naskar

Possibility is positive. — Lailah Gifty Akita

After all, important fresh evidence is a two-edged thing, and may possibly cut in a very different direction to that which Lestrade imagines. Take your breakfast, Watson, and we will go out together and see what we can do. I feel as if I shall need your company and your moral support today. — Arthur Conan Doyle

This world is a funny world indeed,
And people are hard to suit.
The man who plays the piccolo,
Is a bore to the man with the flute.
And often to myself I've thought how lovely it would be,
If every person I ever met would simply agree with me.

But since they won't,
I think the way to make the whole world bright
Is never to mind what others say,
And do what I think is right. — Walter Learned

Literature is map of humanity, the documenter of civilization. Books introduce us to the landscape of the greatest minds of every century. — Kilroy J. Oldster

Since the decline of record companies and music sales, I've always played live. — Adam Ant

There is no cure for madness except the madness as the cure. — Santosh Kalwar

The human body is not necessarily a human being. — Abhijit Naskar

Virtually every tribe in the march towards civilization developed its tailored made initiation practices. In America, sports are part of the test for a young man's initiation into manhood. — Kilroy J. Oldster

Wilderness is wise; civilization enjoys the joy of foolishness. — Debasish Mridha

It's probably not easy for a woman to understand what it's like to be a man. Imagine you're starving, and someone puts a huge buffet in front of you. There's delicious, mouth-watering food all around you, and it's really really hard not to eat it all. That's what it's like to be a man around attractive women. The urge to want to hump everything that moves is part of a man's natural programming. It's a deep-seated hunger. To suppress that hunger takes civilization and a lot of willpower. — Oliver Markus

Knowledge is the key to the development of civilization. — Eraldo Banovac

If I say your voice is an amber waterfall in which I yearn to burn each day, if you eat my mouth like a mystical rose with powers of healing and damnation, If I confess that your body is the only civilization I long to experience ... would it mean that we are close to knowing something about love? — Aberjhani

Art is neither a muscle nor a cure for ugliness. Ugliness has its own reasons and convictions to stay here. Art has a patience of a civilized, patience to withhold the gentleness of the civilization. — Ashutosh Gupta

The rise of one civilization is the weakening of another.
The fall of one civilization is the strengthening of another. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Back then: to be regarded as well-known, one had to be great. Today: to be regarded as great, one has to be well-known. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Governments predicate the call for war upon very terrible lies: that it will restrain evil men, make honest and courageous men out of boys, and the outcome depends upon the moral virtuousness of the combatants. Warfare is obscene, an evil waste of life, and a destroyer of civilization. Society can salvage no virtue or rectitude from the larger waste of destroying cities and killing people. There is no moral message deduced from warfare. All warfare is barbaric and inhuman. — Kilroy J. Oldster

Knowledge is the key driver of the progress of civilization. — Eraldo Banovac

No civilization can thrive or survive if it refuses to adapt or change. — Debasish Mridha