Civilization Quotes

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

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

Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.

Will Durant

Taxes are the price we pay for civilization.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor.

Arnold Toynbee

Simplicity is the peak of civilization.

Jessie Sampte

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

Jane Addams, Speech, Honolulu (1933)

Ideas are the factors that lift civilization. They create revolutions. There is more dynamite in an idea than in many bombs.

Bishop Vincent

Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.

Ayn Rand

The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.

Fyodor Dostoevsky