Those who read own the world; those who immerse themselves in the Internet or watch too much television lose it. Our civilization is suffering profound wounds because of the wholesale abandonment of reading by contemporary society.Werner Herzog
If we’re going to survive as a civilization, we have to choose reason over superstition and evidence over ideology.Brian Cox
The railroads needed standardized time; as a result, the technology of train travel shaped the way everyone gets up, eats, goes to sleep, calculates age, and, perhaps of no small importance, imagine the world as a whole, ticking reliably, with reliable deviations, according to the beat of one central clock in a physical location.Stacey D'Erasmo
What most people don't seem to realize is that there is just as much money to be made out of the wreckage of a civilization as from the upbuilding of one.Margaret Mitchell
Let us not forget that the cultivation of the earth is the most important labor of man. When tillage begins, other arts will follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of civilization.Daniel Webster
Arab civilizations had been of an abstract nature, moral and intellectual rather than applied; and their lack of public spirit made their excellent private qualities futile. They were fortunate in their epoch: Europe had fallen barbarous; and the memory of Greek and Latin learning was fading from men's minds.T. E. Lawrence
America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.Oscar Wilde
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.Freeman Dyson
Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them.Alfred North Whitehead
Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization.Ambrose Bierce
The sickness of the individual is ultimately caused by and sustained by the sickness of his civilization.Wilhelm Reich