Civilization Quotes - page 4

If mankind were to continue in other than the present barbarism, a new path must be found, a new civilization based on some other method than technology. (Clifford D. Simak)
America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. View quote
Oscar Wilde
Agitators are a set of interfering, meddling people, who come down to some perfectly contented class of the community and sow the seeds of discontent amongst them. That is the reason why agitators are so absolutely necessary. Without them, in our incomplete state, there would be no advance towards civilization. View quote
Oscar Wilde
Barbarians always think of themselves as the bringers of civilization. View quote
Pierre Schaeffer
The highest test of the civilization of any race is in its willingness to extend a helping hand to the less fortunate. View quote
Booker T. Washington
Civilization never recedes; the law of necessity ever forces it onwards. View quote
Jules Verne
I trust the time is nigh when, with the universal assent of civilized people, all international differences shall be determined without resort to arms by the benignant processes of civilization. View quote
Chester A. Arthur
Next to the right of liberty, the right of property is the most important individual right guaranteed by the Constitution and the one which, united with that of personal liberty, has contributed more to the growth of civilization than any other institution established by the human race. View quote
William Howard Taft
Wherever we look, the work of the chemist has raised the level of our civilization and has increased the productive capacity of our nation. View quote
Calvin Coolidge
The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards. View quote
Walter Bagehot
No civilization, no matter how mighty it may appear to itself, is indestructible. (Niall Ferguson)
In God's wildness lies the hope of the world - the great fresh, unblighted, unredeemed wilderness. The galling harness of civilization drops off, and wounds heal ere we are aware. View quote
John Muir
for civilization to survive, the human race has to remain civilized. View quote
Rod Serling
Civilization is like a thin layer of ice upon a deep ocean of chaos and darkness. View quote
Werner Herzog
Clearly, a civilization that feels guilty for everything it is and does will lack the energy and conviction to defend itself. View quote
Jean-François Revel
Far from being the smartest possible biological species, we are probably better thought of as the stupidest possible biological species capable of starting a technological civilization - a niche we filled because we got there first, not because we are in any sense optimally adapted to it. View quote
Nick Bostrom
The true civilization is where every man gives to every other every right that he claims for himself. View quote
Robert G. Ingersoll
Prejudices are the props of civilization. View quote
André Gide
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. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The true test of civilization is, not the census, nor the size of the cities, nor the crops, but the kind of man that the country turns out. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Upon the sacredness of property civilization itself depends - the right of the laborer to his hundred dollars in the savings bank, and equally the legal right of the millionaire to his millions. View quote
Andrew Carnegie
The taming and domestication of religion is one of the unceasing chores of civilization. View quote
Christopher Hitchens
The quantity of civilization is measured by the quality of imagination. View quote
Victor Hugo
If the battle for civilization comes down to the wimps versus the barbarians, the barbarians are going to win. View quote
Thomas Sowell