Civilization Quotes

Civilization degrades the many to exalt the few.

Amos Bronson Alcott, Table Talk (1877)

The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.

Sigmund Freud

The civilization of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.

Cyril Connolly

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

Individual commitment to a group effort, that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

Vince Lombardi

Real freedom lies in wildness, not in civilization.

Charles Lindbergh

Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men.

Jane Addams, Speech, Honolulu (1933)

Early civilizations complained about still earlier ones, much as we do about both.

Author Unknown

Disinterested intellectual curiosity is the life blood of real civilization.

G. M. Trevelyan, English Social History (1942)

Simplicity is the peak of civilization.

Jessie Sampte