Civilization Quotes
Civilization is the process of reducing the infinite to the finite.Oliver Wendell Holmes
Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor.Arnold Toynbee
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
I have seen the science I worshipped, and the aircraft I loved, destroying the civilization I expected them to serve.Charles Lindbergh, Toronto Globe and Mail newspaper (letter to the editor)
Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.Mark Twain
Early civilizations complained about still earlier ones, much as we do about both.Author Unknown
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
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
Civilization is a transient sickness.Robinson Jeffers
The family is the nucleus of civilization.William James Durant
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
Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.Barbara Tuchman
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
Civilization is a slow process of adopting the ideas of minorities.Anonymous
The true civilization is where every man gives to every other every right that he claims for himself.Robert Ingersoll
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 first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.Sigmund Freud
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 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
Every civilization that has ever existed has ultimately collapsed.Henry Kissinge
Western civilization, unfortunately, does not link knowledge and morality but rather, it connects knowledge and power and makes them equivalent.Vine Deloria
Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessaries.Mark Twain
Civilization degrades the many to exalt the few.Amos Bronson Alcott, Table Talk (1877)
Taxes are the price we pay for civilization.Oliver Wendell Holmes
Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.Herbert Spence
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
On Western civilization I think it would be a good idea.Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
The more rapidly a civilization progresses, the sooner it dies for another to rise in its place.Havelock Ellis, The Dance of Life
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 first human being who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.Sigmund Freud, (Attributed)
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 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 unbearable, but it is less unbearable at the top.Timothy Leary
It is better for civilization to be going down the drain than to be coming up it.Henry Allen
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
If the aborigine drafted an IQ test, all of Western civilization would presumably flunk it.Stanley Garn
