Civilization Quotes

Xenophobia manifests itself especially against civilizations and cultures that are weak because they lack economic resources, means of subsistence or land. So nomadic people are the first targets of this kind of aggression. - Antonio Tabucchi

Women know what men have long forgotten. The ultimate economic and spiritual unit of any civilization is still the family. - Clare Boothe Luce

Women are a great source of strength in creating human civilization... The promotion of gender equality and protection of women's rights impact on the immediate interests of women and decide whether human beings can fully develop their potential and pursue a better life. - Hu Jintao

Without winners, there wouldn't even be any civilization. - Woody Hayes

Without poets, without artists, men would soon weary of nature's monotony. The sublime idea men have of the universe would collapse with dizzying speed. The order which we find in nature, and which is only an effect of art, would at once vanish. Everything would break up in chaos. There would be no seasons, no civilization, no thought, no humanity; even life would give way, and the impotent void would reign everywhere. - Guillaume Apollinaire

Without memory, there is no culture. Without memory, there would be no civilization, no society, no future. - Elie Wiesel

Without civilization, we would not turn into animals, but vegetables. - Mason Cooley

Without books the development of civilization would have been impossible. They are the engines of change, windows on the world, ''Lighthouses'' as the poet said ''erected in the sea of time'.' They are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind, Books are humanity in print. - Arthur Schopenhauer

Without adventure civilization is in full decay. - Alfred North Whitehead

Without a doubt, we will succeed in moving forward, only if we have the capacity to reap the benefit of positive, scientific and social accomplishments of Western civilization. - Mohammad Khatami