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Civilization Quotes
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The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.

The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons
 share this Civilization saying   Fyodor Dostoyevsky

A civilization is built on what is required of men, not on that which is provided for them.

Civilization is the lamb's skin in which barbarism masquerades.
 share this Civilization saying   Thomas B. Aldrich

Civilization is the making of civil persons.

Civilizations die from suicide, not by murder.

The path of civilization is paved with tin cans.

The test of civilization is its estimate of women.

To accept civilization as it is practically means accepting decay.

Progress is man's ability to complicate simplicity.
 share this Civilization saying   Thor Heyerdahl

What man calls civilization always results in deserts.

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

Civilization is the process of reducing the infinite to the finite.
 share this Civilization saying   Oliver Wendall Holmes

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

Civilization is not a burden. It is an opportunity.
 share this Civilization saying   Alexander Meiklejohn

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

Civilization is the order and freedom promoting cultural activity.

A sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.

If you would civilize a man, begin with his grandmother.

Civilizations die from philosophical calm, irony, and the sense of fair play quite as surely as they die of debauchery.

Civilization is nothing more than the effort to reduce the use of force to the last resort.

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

Civilization is what makes you sick.

Civilization is being poisoned by its own waste products
 share this Civilization saying   W. R. Inge

Disinterested intellectual curiosity is the life-blood of real civilization
 share this Civilization saying   George Macaulay Trevelyan

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