Civilization Quotes

To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization.

Arnold Toynbee

The family is the nucleus of civilization.

William James Durant

Civilization has been thrust upon me... and it has not added one whit to my love for truth, honesty, and generosity.

Luther Standing Bea

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

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

Vince Lombardi

Every civilization that has ever existed has ultimately collapsed.

Henry Kissinge

America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.

Oscar Wilde

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

If the aborigine drafted an IQ test, all of Western civilization would presumably flunk it.

Stanley Garn

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