Civilization Quotes
The true civilization is where every man gives to every other every right that he claims for himself.Robert Ingersoll
Anglo - Saxon civilization has taught the individual to protect his own rights American civilization will teach him to respect the rights of others.William Jennings Bryan
Individual commitment to a group effort, that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.Vince Lombardi
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
The civilization of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.Cyril Connolly
America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization.Georges Clemenceau
On Western civilization I think it would be a good idea.Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
The fact is, that civilization requires slaves. The Greeks were quite right there. Unless there are slaves to do the ugly, horrible, uninteresting work, culture, and contemplation become almost impossible. Human slavery is wrong, insecure, and demoralizing. On mechanical slavery, on the slavery of the machine, the future of the world depends.Oscar Wilde
Civilizations in decline are consistently characterised by a tendency towards standardization and uniformity.Arnold Toynbee
The artist should be a seeing - Eye dog for a myopic civilization.Jacob Getlar Smith
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
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
The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.Sigmund Freud
Individual commitment to a group effort - That is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.Vince Lombardi
Civilization is very much an immature and ongoing experiment, the success of which is by no means yet proven.Colin Turnbull, anthropologist, The Human Cycle
Civilization is a stream with banks. The stream is sometimes filled with blood from people killing, stealing, shouting and doing the things historians usually record, while on the banks, unnoticed, people build homes, make love, raise children, sing song.Will Durant
People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization.Agnes Repplie
If it had not been for the discontent of a few fellows who had not been satisfied with their conditions, you would still be living in caves. Intelligent discontent is the mainspring of civilization. Progress is born of agitation. It is agitation or stagnation.Eugene V. Debs
If the aborigine drafted an IQ test, all of Western civilization would presumably flunk it.Stanley Garn
Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessaries.Mark Twain
We know next to nothing about virtually everything. It is not necessary to know the origin of the universe it is necessary to want to know. Civilization depends not on any particular knowledge, but on the disposition to crave knowledge.George Will
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
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
Simplicity is the peak of civilization.Jessie Sampte
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
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
What a time! What a civilization!Cicero
Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor.Arnold Toynbee
Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men.Jane Addams, Speech, Honolulu (1933)
But the greatest menace to our civilization today is the conflict between giant organized systems of self - Righteousness - - Each system only too delighted to find that the other is wicked - - Each only too glad that the sins give it the pretext for still deeper hatred and animosity.Herbert Butterfield
Western civilization, unfortunately, does not link knowledge and morality but rather, it connects knowledge and power and makes them equivalent.Vine Deloria
The thin and precarious crust of decency is all that separates any civilization, however impressive, from the hell of anarchy or systematic tyranny which lie in wait beneath the surface.Aldous Huxley
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
Taxes are the price we pay for civilization.Oliver Wendell Holmes
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
The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization.Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990
One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person.William Feathe
