Quotes of: Civilized-world Keyword

All civilizations we know about have left a record of their history in material things. We know them through tablets or ruins dug up by archaeologists. But we know of the Jews in ancient times mostly from the ideas they taught and the impact which th...

Max I. Dimont

By the time of the arrival of Islam in the early seventeenth century CE, what we now call the Middle East was divided between the Persian and Byzantine empires. But with the spread of this new religion from Arabia, a powerful empire emerged, and with...

Jim Al-Khalili

[first lines] Teacher: Earth that was could no longer sustain our numbers, we were so many. We found a new solar system, dozens of planets and hundreds of moons. Each one terraformed, a process taking decades, to support human life, to be new Earths....

Serenity

Civilized misery is the worst misery. - Hilary Craven, Pg. 33

Destination Unknown

If civilization has risen from the Stone Age, it can rise again from the Wastepaper Age.

Jacques Barzun

Every man has two counties--his own and America.

America as a Civilization

Tea is one of the main stays of civilization in this country.

Smothered Under Journalism: 1946

Don't make me kill you at this hour in the morning Jimmy. It's not civilized.

Lead

Diplomacy is the delicate weapon of the civilized warrior."- Hun, A. T.

Myth Conceptions

The best security for civilization is the dwelling, and upon properly appointed and becoming dwellings depends, more than anything else, the improvement of mankind.

Benjamin Disraeli

A civilization, a culture, cannot survive without passion, cannot be saved without passion.

Oriana Fallaci

I like to pay taxes. With them, I buy civilization.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.

Oscar Wilde

Not much was really invented during the Renaissance, if you don't count modern civilization.

P. J. O'Rourke

The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The civilized man has built a coach, but has lost the use of his feet.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I believe empathy is the most essential quality of civilization.

Roger Ebert

Children are sent to school to be civilized, to learn to be part of the social enterprise.

Robert Fulghum

Black holes are the last vestige of civilizations obsessed with tinkering.

Kane Freeman

Anyone can be a barbarian; it requires a terrible effort to remain a civilized man.

Leonard Woolf

Before civilization, artists painted for the living. Today, most paint for a living.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana