Civilization Quotes
Civilization is a slow process of adopting the ideas of minorities.Anonymous
Early civilizations complained about still earlier ones, much as we do about both.Author Unknown
Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.Ayn Rand
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
The first human being who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.Sigmund Freud, (Attributed)
The artist should be a seeing - Eye dog for a myopic civilization.Jacob Getlar Smith
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
The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.Fyodor Dostoevsky
America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.Oscar Wilde
I think there are only three things America will be known for 2, 000 years from now when they study this civilization the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.Gerald Early
The more rapidly a civilization progresses, the sooner it dies for another to rise in its place.Havelock Ellis, The Dance of Life
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
America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization.Georges Clemenceau
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
The true civilization is where every man gives to every other every right that he claims for himself.Robert Ingersoll
People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization.Agnes Repplie
Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor.Arnold Toynbee
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 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)
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
Civilization is unbearable, but it is less unbearable at the top.Timothy Leary
What a time! What a civilization!Cicero
A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft - Minded men purchases its own spiritual death on an installment plan.Martin Luther King Jr.
Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.Mark Twain
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
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
Taxes are the price we pay for civilization.Oliver Wendell Holmes
It is so stupid of modern civilization to have given up believing in the devil when he is the only explanation of it.Ronald Knox
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
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
The family is the nucleus of civilization.William James Durant
The measuring rod of a civilization is the prosperity of the masses.Albert & Emily Vail, Transforming Light (pg 254)
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
Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.Herbert Spence
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
One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person.William Feathe
