Civilization Quotes
The more rapidly a civilization progresses, the sooner it dies for another to rise in its place.
Havelock Ellis
Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men.
Jane Addams
Civilization is the order and freedom promoting cultural activity.
Will Durant
A sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you would civilize a man, begin with his grandmother.
Victor Hugo
Civilizations die from philosophical calm, irony, and the sense of fair play quite as surely as they die of debauchery.
Joseph Wood Krutch
Civilization is nothing more than the effort to reduce the use of force to the last resort.
Jose Ortega y Gasset
The true civilization is where every man gives to every other every right that he claims for himself.
Robert Ingersoll
Civilization is what makes you sick.
Paul Gauguin
Civilization is being poisoned by its own waste products
W. R. Inge
If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.
Thomas Jefferson
As long as art is the beauty parlor of civilization, neither art nor civilization is secure
John Dewey
A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within.
Ariel Durant
