Civilization Quotes
Every civilization that has ever existed has ultimately collapsed.Henry Kissinge
Disinterested intellectual curiosity is the life blood of real civilization.G. M. Trevelyan, English Social History (1942)
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
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
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
Western civilization, unfortunately, does not link knowledge and morality but rather, it connects knowledge and power and makes them equivalent.Vine Deloria
Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.Ayn Rand
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.
Civilization degrades the many to exalt the few.Amos Bronson Alcott, Table Talk (1877)
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 true civilization is where every man gives to every other every right that he claims for himself.Robert Ingersoll
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 measuring rod of a civilization is the prosperity of the masses.Albert & Emily Vail, Transforming Light (pg 254)
The artist should be a seeing - Eye dog for a myopic civilization.Jacob Getlar Smith
Civilization is the art of living in towns of such size the everyone does not know everyone else.Julian Jaynes, "The Origin of Consciousness".
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 has been thrust upon me... and it has not added one whit to my love for truth, honesty, and generosity.Luther Standing Bea
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
The true law of the race is progress and development. Whatever civilization pauses in the march of conquest, it is overthrown by the barbarian.Simms
Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.Herbert Spence
Civilizations die from suicide, not by murder.Arnold Toynbee
The civilization of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.Cyril Connolly
Simplicity is the peak of civilization.Jessie Sampte
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
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
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 basic problem is that our civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man.Andre Malraux
Taxes are the price we pay for civilization.Oliver Wendell Holmes
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
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
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
It is the first step of wisdom to recognize that the major advances in civilization are processes which all but wreck the society in which they occur.George Whitehead
What a time! What a civilization!Cicero
The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization.Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990
Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men.Jane Addams, Speech, Honolulu (1933)
Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor.Arnold Toynbee
It is better for civilization to be going down the drain than to be coming up it.Henry Allen
The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.Ralph Waldo Emerson
