Civilization Quotes
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
The artist should be a seeing - Eye dog for a myopic civilization.Jacob Getlar Smith
A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft - Minded men purchases its own spiritual death on an installment plan.Martin Luther King Jr.
If the aborigine drafted an IQ test, all of Western civilization would presumably flunk it.Stanley Garn
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
Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.Herbert Spence
To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization.Arnold Toynbee
It is not too strong a statement to declare that this is the way civilizations begin to die... None of us has the right to suppose it cannot happen here.Richard Milhous Nixon
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
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
When vultures watching your civilization begin dropping dead, it is time to pause and wonder.David Browe
The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.Fyodor Dostoevsky
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
Clearly, a civilization that feels guilty for everything it is and does will lack the energy and conviction to defend itself.Jean Francois Revel
Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them.Alfred North Whitehead, Introduction to Mathematics (1911)
The family is the nucleus of civilization.William James Durant
It is better for civilization to be going down the drain than to be coming up it.Henry Allen
When humor goes, there goes civilization.Erma Bombeck
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
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 fact is, that civilization requires slaves. The Greeks were quite right there. Unless there are slaves to do the ugly, horrible, uninteresting work, culture, and contemplation become almost impossible. Human slavery is wrong, insecure, and demoralizing. On mechanical slavery, on the slavery of the machine, the future of the world depends.Oscar Wilde
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 unbearable, but it is less unbearable at the top.Timothy Leary
The true civilization is where every man gives to every other every right that he claims for himself.Robert Ingersoll
Civilization has been thrust upon me... and it has not added one whit to my love for truth, honesty, and generosity.Luther Standing Bea
Civilizations in decline are consistently characterised by a tendency towards standardization and uniformity.Arnold Toynbee
Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty, and dies with chaos.Will Durant
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
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)
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
The more rapidly a civilization progresses, the sooner it dies for another to rise in its place.Havelock Ellis, The Dance of Life
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
The measuring rod of a civilization is the prosperity of the masses.Albert & Emily Vail, Transforming Light (pg 254)
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
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
Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessaries.Mark Twain
Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years.John Burroughs
Every civilization that has ever existed has ultimately collapsed.Henry Kissinge
