Civilization Quotes
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 is the process of reducing the infinite to the finite.Oliver Wendell Holmes
The artist should be a seeing - Eye dog for a myopic civilization.Jacob Getlar Smith
Individual commitment to a group effort - That is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.Vince Lombardi
If the aborigine drafted an IQ test, all of Western civilization would presumably flunk it.Stanley Garn
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)
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 civilization of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.Cyril Connolly
Civilization is a slow process of adopting the ideas of minorities.Anonymous
When humor goes, there goes civilization.Erma Bombeck
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 degrades the many to exalt the few.Amos Bronson Alcott, Table Talk (1877)
Every civilization that has ever existed has ultimately collapsed.Henry Kissinge
The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.Sigmund Freud
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
Civilization is the art of living in towns of such size the everyone does not know everyone else.Julian Jaynes, "The Origin of Consciousness".
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 F. Will
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
What a time! What a civilization!Cicero
People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization.Agnes Repplie
The first human being who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.Sigmund Freud, (Attributed)
Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty, and dies with chaos.Will 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
On Western civilization I think it would be a good idea.Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
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
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
The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Civilization is unbearable, but it is less unbearable at the top.Timothy Leary
Civilization has been thrust upon me... and it has not added one whit to my love for truth, honesty, and generosity.Luther Standing Bea
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
Civilizations in decline are consistently characterised by a tendency towards standardization and uniformity.Arnold Toynbee
It is better for civilization to be going down the drain than to be coming up it.Henry Allen
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
The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards.Walter Bagehot
A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft - Minded men purchases its own spiritual death on an installment plan.Martin Luther King Jr.
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 very much an immature and ongoing experiment, the success of which is by no means yet proven.Colin Turnbull, anthropologist, The Human Cycle
