Civilization Quotes

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

Disinterested intellectual curiosity is the life-blood of real civilization

George Macaulay Trevelyan

If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.

As long as art is the beauty parlor of civilization, neither art nor civilization is secure

The slum is the measure of civilization

Jacob Riis

A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within.

Ariel Durant

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

Civilization has gotten further and further from the so-called 'natural' man, who uses all his faculties: perception, invention, improvisation.

Education is the transmission of civilization.

It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.

When humor goes, there goes civilization.

Civilization must be destroyed. The hairy saints of the North have earned this crumb by their complaints.

The ultimate tendency of civilization is towards barbarism.

David Hare

Civilization will not attain to its perfection until the last stone from the last church falls on the last priest.

EMILE ZOLA

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

Julian Jaynes

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