Civilization Quotes

What a time! What a civilization!
Cicero
Ralph waldo emerson, letters and social aims: quotation and originality, 1876 - in the highest civilization, the book is still...
Civilizations in decline are consistently characterised by a tendency towards standardization and uniformity.
Arnold Toynbee
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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
Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
Will Durant
Clearly, a civilization that feels guilty for everything it is and does will lack the energy and conviction to defend itself.
Jean Francois Revel
The family is the nucleus of civilization.
William James Durant
The true test of a civilization is not the census, nor the size of the cities, nor the crops? no, but the kind of man the country turns out.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Society and Solitude
Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor.
Arnold Toynbee
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
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
Ronald knox - it is so stupid of modern civilization to have...
Civilization is the distance man has placed between himself and his excreta.
Brian Aldiss
Early civilizations complained about still earlier ones, much as we do about both.
Author Unknown
People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization.
Agnes Repplie
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
On Western civilization I think it would be a good idea.
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
Civilization degrades the many to exalt the few.
Amos Bronson Alcott, Table Talk (1877)
Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.
Frank Lloyd Wright
Having a thirteen - Year - Old in the family is like having a general - Admission ticket to the movies, radio and TV. You get to understand that the glittering new arts of our civilization are directed to the teen - Agers, and by their suffrage they stand or fall.
Max Lerne
Civilization is a transient sickness.
Robinson Jeffers
The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards.
Walter Bagehot
Simplicity is the peak of civilization.
Jessie Sampte
Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty, and dies with chaos.
Will Durant
The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization.
Arnold Toynbee
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
Disinterested intellectual curiosity is the life blood of real civilization.
G. M. Trevelyan, English Social History (1942)
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
Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.
Barbara Tuchman
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
One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person.
William Feathe
Man lowers his head and lunges into civilization, forgetting the days of his infancy when he sought truth in a snowflake or a stick. Man forgets the wisdom of the child.
Jack Kerouac
If the aborigine drafted an IQ test, all of Western civilization would presumably flunk it.
Stanley Garn
Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them.
Alfred North Whitehead, Introduction to Mathematics (1911)
Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.
Mark Twain
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.
I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two - Thirds of the people of the Earth might be killed, but enough men capable of thinking, and enough books, would be left to start again, and civilization could be restored.
Albert Einstein
Western civilization, unfortunately, does not link knowledge and morality but rather, it connects knowledge and power and makes them equivalent.
Vine Deloria