Artificial intelligence will reach human levels by around 2029. Follow that out further to, say, 2045, we will have multiplied the intelligence, the human biological machine intelligence of our civilization a billion-fold. – Ray Kurzweil
I am especially grateful, however, to have known the fifties, before we began to poison our own civilization – or at least before the effects of the poison began to be felt. – Orson Scott Card
No civilization other than that which is Christian, is worth seeking or possessing. – Otto von Bismarck
A slight daily unconscious luxury is hardly ever wanting to the dwellers in civilization; like the gentle air of a genial climate, it is a perpetual minute enjoyment. – Walter Bagehot
The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization. – Sigmund Freud
We will never have true civilization until we have learned to recognize the rights of others. – Will Rogers
In our civilization, men are afraid that they will not be men enough and women are afraid that they might be considered only women. – Theodor Reik
If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism. – Thomas Sowell
If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be. – Thomas Jefferson
We have always been taught that navigation is the result of civilization, but modern archeology has demonstrated very clearly that this is not so. – Thor Heyerdahl
What I am more concerned about is whether our whole civilization will be around in the next 25 years. – Sonny Rollins
The center of Western culture is Greece, and we have never lost our ties with the architectural concepts of that ancient civilization. – Stephen Gardiner
Not a single piece of material culture – not a single object – has been found at Giza that can be interpreted to come from a lost civilization. – Zahi Hawass
The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards. – Walter Bagehot
Cities have always been the fireplaces of civilization, whence light and heat radiated out into the dark. – Theodore Parker
By vulgarity I mean that vice of civilization which makes man ashamed of himself and his next of kin, and pretend to be somebody else. – Solomon Schechter
There is every indication that we are to see new developments of the power of aggregated capital to serve civilization, and that the new developments will be made right here in America. – William Graham Sumner
It is impossible to overlook the extent to which civilization is built upon a renunciation of instinct. – Sigmund Freud
Everywhere in the universe, the periodic table has the same basic structure. Even if an alien civilization’s table weren’t plotted out in the castle-with-turrets shape we humans favor, their spiral or pyramidal or whatever-shaped periodic table would naturally pause after 118 elements. – Sam Kean
Perhaps Western civilization is in a post-decline phase, or maybe the decline is just taking a really long time, like the Roman Empire’s did. The Romans had gladiators and Christian-hungry lions and that sort of thing. We have MTV. – Tom Shales
Our civilization is still in a middle stage, scarcely beast, in that it is no longer wholly guided by instinct; scarcely human, in that it is not yet wholly guided by reason. – Theodore Dreiser