The destiny of world civilization depends upon providing a decent standard of living for all mankind.

When humor goes, there goes civilization.

The disease of mutual distrust among nations is the bane of modern civilization.

No civilization other than that which is Christian, is worth seeking or possessing.

Right now, there's the illusion of order and civilization, but there's a tremendous amount of economic tension in this country and the educational system is constantly eroding.

In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.

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

Civilization exists precisely so that there may be no masses but rather men alert enough never to constitute masses.

Sex appeal is the keynote of our civilization.

You can't leave civilization behind entirely.

Christianity is the enemy of liberty and civilization.

Imagination has brought mankind through the dark ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination led Columbus to discover America. Imagination led Franklin to discover electricity.

If civilization has risen from the Stone Age, it can rise again from the Wastepaper Age.

We will create a civilization of the Mind in Cyberspace. May it be more humane and fair than the world your governments have made before.

The exact measure of the progress of civilization is the degree in which the intelligence of the common mind has prevailed over wealth and brute force.