Civilization Quotes

When several villages are united in a single complete community, large enough to nearly or quite self-sufficing, the state comes into existence, originating in the bare needs of life, and continuing in existence for the sake of a good life.

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.

We must remember that any oppression, any injustice, any hatred, is a wedge designed to attack our civilization.

The country only has charms for those not obliged to stay there.

The history of man is a graveyard of great cultures that came to catastrophic ends because of their incapacity for planned, rational, voluntary reaction to challenge.

Speech is civilization itself... It is silence which isolates.

Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them.

Civilization is a race between education and catastrophe.

You can't say that civilization don't advance, however, for in every war they kill you in a new way.

It is better for civilization to be going down the drain than to be coming up it.

The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.

Civilization is the art of living in towns of such size the everyone does not know everyone else.

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

One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person.

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.

The true civilization is where every man gives to every other every right that he claims for himself.

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.

Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty, and dies with chaos.

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

Civilization degrades the many to exalt the few.

The more rapidly a civilization progresses, the sooner it dies for another to rise in its place.