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.

Thus it was to seek true civilization and true justice for all the peoples of the world and to view this as the destruction of personal freedom and respect is to be assailed by the hatred and emotion of war and to make hasty judgments.

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.

Today's interpretations of religion are often backward and contradict the needs of 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.

Our civilization is now in the transition stage between the age of warring empires and a new age of world unity and peace.

Standing as I believe the United States stands for humanity and civilization we should exercise every influence of our great country to put a stop to that war which is now raging in Cuba and give to that island once more peace liberty and independence.

The old interests of aristocracy - the romance of action the exalted passions of chivalry and war - faded into the background and their place was taken by the refined and intimate pursuits of peace and civilization.

Peace on earth would mean the end of civilization as we know it.

He would see civilization in danger of perishing under the oppression of a gigantic paradox: he would see multitudes of people starving in the midst of plenty and nations preparing for war although pledged to peace.