Civilization Quotes
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
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
One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person.William Feathe
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
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
Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years.John Burroughs
Civilizations in decline are consistently characterised by a tendency towards standardization and uniformity.Arnold Toynbee
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
Clearly, a civilization that feels guilty for everything it is and does will lack the energy and conviction to defend itself.Jean Francois Revel
America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization.Georges Clemenceau
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
Early civilizations complained about still earlier ones, much as we do about both.Author Unknown
What a time! What a civilization!Cicero
The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization.Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990
The artist should be a seeing - Eye dog for a myopic civilization.Jacob Getlar Smith
Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.Herbert Spence
The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards.Walter Bagehot
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 true law of the race is progress and development. Whatever civilization pauses in the march of conquest, it is overthrown by the barbarian.Simms
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
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
Individual commitment to a group effort, that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.Vince Lombardi
Civilization is built on a number of ultimate principles... respect for human life, the punishment of crimes against property and persons, the equality of all good citizens before the law... or, in a word justice.Max Nordau
To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level.Bertrand Russell, Conquest of Happiness (1930) ch. 14
Civilization is a slow process of adopting the ideas of minorities.Anonymous
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
A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft - Minded men purchases its own spiritual death on an installment plan.Martin Luther King Jr.
Underlying the whole scheme of civilization is the confidence men have in each other, confidence in their integrity, confidence in their honesty, confidence in their future.Bourke Cockran
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
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
Civilizations die from suicide, not by murder.Arnold Toynbee
To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization.Arnold Toynbee
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
Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessaries.Mark Twain
Civilization is a stream with banks. The stream is sometimes filled with blood from people killing, stealing, shouting and doing the things historians usually record, while on the banks, unnoticed, people build homes, make love, raise children, sing song.Will Durant
Civilization is a transient sickness.Robinson Jeffers
The civilization of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.Cyril Connolly
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.
