Music and symbols, they're older than human race. Prehuman beings used them to teach early mankind.
Anyone thus forced to react continually to precepts that are not the expressions of his impulses lives, psychologically speaking, above his means, and may be objectively described as a hypocrite, whether he is clearly conscious of this difference or not. It is undeniable that our contemporary civilization favors this sort of hypocrisy to an extraordinary extent. One might even venture to assert that it is built upon such a hypocrisy and would have to undergo extensive changes if man were to undertake to live according to the psychological truth. There are therefore more civilized hypocrites than truly cultured persons
Real civilisation means an education that extends to the whole of life, in contradistinction to that of school or college: it means an education that forms speech, forms manners, forms taste, forms ideals, and above all forms judgment.
Perhaps the greatest Maya mystery of all is the cause of the civilization's abrupt decline. The last dated stela erected at Tikal was put up in A.D. 869; the last anywhere in the Maya world, in 909.
Really advanced civilization is based on advances in energy.
I have seen the science I worshiped, and the aircraft I loved, destroying the civilization I expected them to serve.
Wherever an altar is found, there civilization exists.
If any civilization is to survive, it is the morality of altruism that men have to reject.
It is possible to take the story of Noah figuratively, although virtually every Near East ancient civilization has its own version of the flood story (including the amoral epic of Gilgamesh).
In the twenty-first century, the robot will take the place which slave labor occupied in ancient civilization.
The love of domination and an uncontrolled lust of arbitrary power have prevailed among all nations and perhaps in proportion to the degrees of civilization.
We have always been taught that navigation is the result of civilization, but modern archeology has demonstrated very clearly that this is not so.
The center of Western culture is Greece, and we have never lost our ties with the architectural concepts of that ancient civilization.
We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology.
Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization.
If the Earth gets hit by an asteroid, it's game over. It's control-alt-delete for civilization.
No civilization on the brink of collapse has ever changed fast enough to avert collapse.
The disease of mutual distrust among nations is the bane of modern civilization.
If the battle for civilization comes down to the wimps versus the barbarians, the barbarians are going to win.
If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.