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

To me, the Holocaust stands alone as the most horrible human event in modern civilization.

Not much was really invented during the Renaissance, if you don't count modern civilization.

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

A modern civilization is only possible when it is accepted that singular beings exist and express themselves freely.

Apart from the desire to produce beautiful things, the leading passion of my life has been and is hatred of modern civilization.

The longer a region is in contact with modern civilization, the higher the degree to which the society in the region is civilized.

The reason renewables can't power modern civilization is because they were never meant to. One interesting question is why anybody ever thought they could.

The contribution of Islam to history and modern civilization is the product of the efforts of peoples of many races and tongues which came to accept its way of life.

Violence and irrationality were so long and thoroughly cultivated among the Irish, and so perfectly ingrained into their nature, that modern civilization has as yet been unable to extract the virus.

Responsibility has become the fundamental imperative in modern civilization, and it should be an unavoidable criterion to assess and evaluate human actions, including, in a special way, development activities.

I believe very firmly that indigenous populations had a really good, intuitive understanding of why we're here. And we're trying to gain that same understanding through psychology and intellect in modern civilization.

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