Civilization Quotes

The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization. (Sigmund Freud)
Civilization will not attain perfection until the last stone from the last church falls on the last priest. View quote
Émile Zola
Mankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell. View quote
George Orwell
One of the tests of the civilization of people is the treatment of its criminals. View quote
Rutherford B. Hayes
You can't say civilization isn't advancing in every war they kill you in a new way. View quote
Will Rogers
The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion. View quote
Thomas Carlyle
Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime. View quote
Victor Hugo
A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values. View quote
Ezra Pound
America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization. View quote
Georges Clemenceau
Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men. View quote
Jane Addams
If a test of civilization be sought, none can be so sure as the condition of that half of society over which the other half has power. (Harriet Martineau)
Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos. View quote
Will Durant
Sex appeal is the keynote of our civilization. View quote
Henri Bergson
When humor goes, there goes civilization. View quote
Erma Bombeck
We will never have true civilization until we have learned to recognize the rights of others. View quote
Will Rogers
The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Our society must make it right and possible for old people not to fear the young or be deserted by them, for the test of a civilization is the way that it cares for its helpless members. View quote
Pearl S. Buck
If history could teach us anything, it would be that private property is inextricably linked with civilization. View quote
Ludwig von Mises
I feel this is very important for us to have serene buildings because our civilization is chaotic as it is, you see; our whole machine age has brought about a chaos that has to be somehow counterbalanced, I think. View quote
Minoru Yamasaki
Against the dark background of this contemporary civilization of well-being, even the arts tend to mingle, to lose their identity. View quote
Eugenio Montale
The moment you give up your principles, and your values, you are dead, your culture is dead, your civilization is dead. Period. (Oriana Fallaci)
War has been with us ever since the dawn of civilization. Nothing has been more constant in history than war. View quote
Robert Aumann
Real freedom lies in wildness, not civilization. View quote
Charles Lindbergh
One might enumerate the items of high civilization, as it exists in other countries, which are absent from the texture of American life, until it should become a wonder to know what was left. View quote
Henry James
The face of nature and civilization in this our country is to a certain point a very sufficient literary field. But it will yield its secrets only to a really grasping imagination. To write well and worthily of American things one need even more than elsewhere to be a master. View quote
Henry James