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.

When humor goes there goes civilization.

The more the history of the World War and what led up to it is studied the more clearly those tragic years become revealed as a vast collapse of civilization.

America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization.

The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first and deadly afterwards.

If history could teach us anything it would be that private property is inextricably linked with civilization.

Classes struggle some classes triumph others are eliminated. Such is history such is the history of civilization for thousands of years.

What is the thread of western civilization that distinguished its course in history? It has to do with the preoccupation of western man with his outward command and his sense of superiority.

Since the dawn of time traditional marriage - the union between one man and one woman - has been the building block of civilization and at no point in our nation's history has that foundation been under more severe attack than now.

Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books history is silent literature dumb science crippled thought and speculation at a standstill.

Of the twenty-two civilizations that have appeared in history nineteen of them collapsed when they reached the moral state the United States is in now.

We've persevered because of a belief we share with the Iraqi people - a belief that out of the ashes of war a new beginning could be born in this cradle of civilization. Through this remarkable chapter in the history of the United States and Iraq we have met our responsibility. Now it's time to turn the page.

I think really China Chinese I think they really have a long history of civilization rich culture.

Civilization is a movement and not a condition a voyage and not a harbor.

One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person.

Let's face it - think of Africa and the first images that come to mind are of war poverty famine and flies. How many of us really know anything at all about the truly great ancient African civilizations which in their day were just as splendid and glorious as any on the face of the earth?

The three great elements of modern civilization Gun powder Printing and the Protestant religion.

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.

The world runs on individuals pursuing their self interests. The great achievements of civilization have not come from government bureaus. Einstein didn't construct his theory under order from a from a bureaucrat. Henry Ford didn't revolutionize the automobile industry that way.

Mankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell.

I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.

What do I think of Western civilization? I think it would be a very good idea.

Technology is a gift of God. After the gift of life it is perhaps the greatest of God's gifts. It is the mother of civilizations of arts and of sciences.

I think God's going to come down and pull civilization over for speeding.