(1032 quotes found)
“A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed.”
Emile M. Cioran
“Until he extends the circle of his compassion to all living things, man will not himself find peace. - The Philosophy of Civilization.”
Albert Schweitzer
“Civil Rights opened the windows. When you open the windows, it does not mean that everybody will get through. We must create our own opportunities.”
Mary Frances Berry
“Civilization has gotten further and further from the so-called 'natural' man, who uses all his faculties: perception, invention, improvisation.”
Robert Green Ingersoll
“At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilized races of man will almost certainly exterminate, and replace the savage races throughout the world”
Charles Darwin
“There are those who say to you -- we are rushing this issue of civil rights. I say we are 172 years late.”
Hubert H. Humphrey
“New York... when civilization falls apart, remember, we were way ahead of you.”
David Letterman
“Western civilization, unfortunately, does not link knowledge and morality but rather, it connects knowledge and power and makes them equivalent.”
Vine Deloria Jr.
“Rights that do not flow from duty well performed are not worth having.”
Mahatma Gandhi
“If the battle for civilization comes down to the wimps versus the barbarians, the barbarians are going to win.”
Thomas Sowell
