Civilization Quotes

The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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 a transient sickness.

Robinson Jeffers

Civilization is the process of reducing the infinite to the finite.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization.

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

Clearly, a civilization that feels guilty for everything it is and does will lack the energy and conviction to defend itself.

Jean Francois Revel

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

Civilization is a slow process of adopting the ideas of minorities.

Anonymous