If mankind were to continue in other than the present barbarism a new path must be found a new civilization based on some other method than technology.

Roman civilization had achieved within the bounds of its technology relatively as great a mastery of time and space as we have achieved today.

Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them.

Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels levers and springs and believes it civilization.

To make the moral achievement implicit in science a source of strength to civilization the scientist will have to have the cooperation also of the philosopher and the religious teacher.

Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work a company work a society work a civilization work.

Civilization is unbearable but it is less unbearable at the top.

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

Chastity is the cement of civilization and progress. Without it there is no stability in society and without it one cannot attain the Science of Life.

I have seen the science I worshiped and the aircraft I loved destroying the civilization I expected them to serve.

Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years.

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

Internationalism is a community theory of society which is founded on economic spiritual and biological facts. It maintains that respect for a healthy development of human society and of world civilization requires that mankind be organized internationally.

Anglo-Saxon civilization has taught the individual to protect his own rights American civilization will teach him to respect the rights of others.

I believe that what we are fighting here is not just a small group of people who have hijacked a religion but it is a civilization bent on destroying ours.

I have increasingly over the years felt that religion today does our civilization more harm than good.

It is commonly said and known that each civilization has its own religion. Now my claim is that if we look deeper the different civilizations were brought into being by the different revelations.

We may be sure that out of the ruins of our capitalist civilization a new religion will emerge just as Christianity emerged from the ruins of the Roman civilization.

Well right now I'm very fascinated with 1920s Berlin. I mean probably the more interesting thing would be to go to the beginning of civilization or precivilization - like polytheistic times. It would be interesting to see what came before modern religion and culture - what circumstances created the environment or the need for it.

Human rights is a universal standard. It is a component of every religion and every civilization.

The worth of a civilization or a culture is not valued in the terms of its material wealth or military power but by the quality and achievements of its representative individuals - its philosophers its poets and its artists.

What has destroyed every previous civilization has been the tendency to the unequal distribution of wealth and power.

For the liberal state to accommodate a diversity of beliefs while having few positive convictions is one of the more admirable achievements of civilization.

As civilization advances poetry almost necessarily declines.