Civilization Quotes
If you will protest courageously, and yet with dignity and Christian love, when the history books are written in future generations, the historians will have to pause and say, There lived a great people - A black people - who injected new meaning and dignity into the veins of civilization.Martin Luther King, Jr.
The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.Fyodor Dostoevsky
On Western civilization I think it would be a good idea.Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
Individual commitment to a group effort - That is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.Vince Lombardi
The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization.Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990
Remember Things in life will not always run smoothly. Sometimes we will be rising toward the heights - Then all will seem to reverse itself and start downward. The great fact to remember is that the trend of civilization itself is forever upward, that a line drawn through the middle of the peaks and the valleys of the centuries always has an upward trend.Endicott Peabody
Underlying the whole scheme of civilization is the confidence men have in each other, confidence in their integrity, confidence in their honesty, confidence in their future.Bourke Cockran
One of the great dreams of man must be to find some place between the extremes of nature and civilization where it is possible to live without regret.Barry Lopez
In the highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight. He who has once known its satisfactions is provided with a resource against calamity.Ralph Waldo Emerson, Letters and Social Aims: Quotation and Originality, 1876
Early civilizations complained about still earlier ones, much as we do about both.Author Unknown
Civilization is built on a number of ultimate principles... respect for human life, the punishment of crimes against property and persons, the equality of all good citizens before the law... or, in a word justice.Max Nordau
A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft - Minded men purchases its own spiritual death on an installment plan.Martin Luther King Jr.
Remember! Things in life will not always run smoothly. Sometimes we will be rising toward the heights - Then all will seem to reverse itself and start downward. The great fact to remember is that the trend of civilization itself is forever upward, that a line drawn through the middle of the peaks and the valleys of the centuries always has an upward trend.Endicott Peabody
Civilization is a transient sickness.Robinson Jeffers
On a group of theories one can found a school; but on a group of values one can found a culture, a civilization, a new way of living together among men.Ignazio Silone
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.Ambrose Bierce
Civilization is the art of living in towns of such size the everyone does not know everyone else.Julian Jaynes, "The Origin of Consciousness".
The first human being who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.Sigmund Freud, (Attributed)
The civilization of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.Cyril Connolly
Clearly, a civilization that feels guilty for everything it is and does will lack the energy and conviction to defend itself.Jean Francois Revel
Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.Barbara Tuchman
The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Taxes are the price we pay for civilization.Oliver Wendell Holmes
Civilization degrades the many to exalt the few.Amos Bronson Alcott, Table Talk (1877)
The family is the nucleus of civilization.William James Durant
Simplicity is the peak of civilization.Jessie Sampte
It is not too strong a statement to declare that this is the way civilizations begin to die... None of us has the right to suppose it cannot happen here.Richard Milhous Nixon
Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.Henry David Thoreau
When vultures watching your civilization begin dropping dead, it is time to pause and wonder.David Browe
To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization.Arnold Toynbee
It was the Law of the Sea, they said. Civilization ends at the waterline. Beyond that, we all enter the food chain, and not always right at the top.Hunter S. Thompson
I have seen the science I worshipped, and the aircraft I loved, destroying the civilization I expected them to serve.Charles Lindbergh, Toronto Globe and Mail newspaper (letter to the editor)
I believe that truth is the glue that holds government together, not only our government but civilization itself.Gerald R. Ford, Inaugural Address, 9 August 1974
The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.Sigmund Freud
People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization.Agnes Repplie
Humanity faces a quantum leap forward. It faces the deepest social upheaval and creative restructuring of all time. Without clearly recognizing it, we are engaged in building a remarkable new civilization from the ground up. This is the meaning of the Third Wave.Alvin Toffle
Every civilization that has ever existed has ultimately collapsed.Henry Kissinge
