Quotes of: Modern-civilization Keyword

Technology is a gift of God. After the gift of life it is perhaps the greatest of God's gifts. It is the mother of civilizations, of arts and of sciences.

Freeman Dyson

The discovery of agriculture was the first big step toward a civilized life.

Arthur Keith

From the first day to this, sheer greed was the driving spirit of civilization.

Friedrich Engels

Let no one refer to the sword of Napoleon I as the instrument of progress and civilization!

Elie Ducommun

Surely the only sound foundation for a civilization is a sound state of mind.

E. M. Forster

From first to last the civilization of America has been bound up with its physical environment.

Ellsworth Huntington

Travel, leave everything, copy the birds. The home is one of civilization’s sadnesses.

Gustave Flaubert

I expect Woman will be the last thing civilized by Man.

George Meredith

Civilization is held together by duct tape and spit, and I'm worried about the duct tape.

Jacqueline Patricks

Civilization is a hopeless race to discover remedies for the evils it produces.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Bookstores are lonely forts, spilling light onto the sidewalk. They civilize their neighborhoods.

John Updike

Civilization never recedes; the law of necessity ever forces it onwards.

Jules Verne

There is no kind of harassment that a man may not inflict on a woman with impunity in civilized societies.

Denis Diderot

Besides a happy policy as to civil government, it is necessary to institute a system of law and jurisprudence founded in justice, equity, and public right.

Ezra Stiles

I think the country's getting disgusted with Washington partly because of the decline of civility in government.

George McGovern

Professor Abraham Van Helsing: Civilization, and syphilization, have advanced together.

Dracula

The civility which money will purchase, is rarely extended to those who have none.

Charles Dickens

This will never be a civilized country until we spend more money for books than we do for chewing gum.

Elbert Hubbard

Sidney Poitier became a star in part by helping black and white Americans negotiate their new relationship in the post-Civil Rights era.

Wesley Morris

We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology.

Carl Sagan

Jesus wept; Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived the grace of present civilization.

Victor Hugo