Civilization Quotes

• Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock.

  Sigmund Freud

  Peace, War, Rocks

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• Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

  Vince Lombardi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  "Full Text of Governor Ikpeazu’s Inaugural Speech". dailypost.ng. May 30, 2015.

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• If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships - the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world at peace.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Relationship, Peace, Money

  Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1950). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1944-1945, Volume 13”, p.615, Best Books on

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• We will never have true civilization until we have learned to recognize the rights of others.

  Will Rogers

  Inspirational, Rights

  Will Rogers, Steven K. Gragert, Judy G. Buckholz, Oklahoma State University, Will Rogers Memorial Commission (1974). “The Writings of Will Rogers”

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• A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Motivational, Spiritual, Men

  BiographyPersonal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Civilization is not by means an easy thing to attain to. There are only two ways by which man can reach it. One is by being cultured, the other by being corrupt.

  Oscar Wilde

  Mean, Men, Two

  Oscar Wilde (2015). “The Picture of Dorian Gray (Diversion Classics)”, p.229, Diversion Books

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• The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Peace, War

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• Every advance in civilization has been denounced as unnatural while it was recent

  Bertrand Russell

  Nature, Openness, Has Beens

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell”, p.64, Routledge

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• Is civilization only a higher form of idolatry, that man should bow down to a flesh-brush, to flannels, to baths, diet, exercise, and air?

  Mary Baker Eddy

  Exercise, Men, Air

  Mary Baker Eddy (2014). “Science And Health”, p.212, Jazzybee Verlag

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• The test of a civilization is in the way that it cares for its helpless members

  Pearl S. Buck

  Inspiring, Society, Charity

  My Several Worlds pt. 4 (1954) See Ramsey Clark 1; Dostoyevski 1; Humphrey 3; Samuel Johnson 69; Helen Keller 4

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• Our manners, our civilization, and all the good things connected with manners and civilization, have, in this European world of ours, depended for ages upon two principles: I mean the spirit of a gentleman, and the spirit of religion.

  Edmund Burke

  Mean, Two, Gentleman

  Edmund Burke, Robert MONTGOMERY (Author of “Satan.”.) (1853). “Edmund Burke: being first principles selected from his writings. With an introductory essay by Robert Montgomery”, p.127

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• Civilization is the lamb's skin in which barbarism masquerades.

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich

  Inspirational, Skins, Revolution

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1907). “The Writings of Thomas Bailey Aldrich”

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• Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.

  Mark Twain

  Inspiration, History, Unnecessary

  "Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist".

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

  Jane Addams

  Attitude, Army, Men

  Jane Addams (2006). “Jane Addams's Essays and Speeches on Peace”, p.303, A&C Black

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• The great advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science or literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government.

  Milton Friedman

  Government, Agriculture, Literature

  "Capitalism and Freedom: Fortieth Anniversary Edition".

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• It is not possible for civilization to flow backwards while there is youth in the world. Youth may be headstrong, but it will advance it allotted length.

  Helen Keller

  Literature, World, May

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• We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology.

  Carl Sagan

  Technology, Elements, Depends

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• I consider that there are different degrees of civilization and there are many different ways of expressing it. But one is civilized or is not.

  Flora Lewis

  Degrees, Different, Way

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• If there hadn't been women we'd still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends.

  Orson Welles

  Funny, Life, Girlfriend

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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  Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor.

  Arnold J. Toynbee

  Change, Wisdom, Art

  Quoted in Reader's Digest, Oct 1958.

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• The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Mother, Art, Soul

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing.

  Robert E. Howard

  Live Life, Men, Skulls

  Robert E. Howard (2007). “The Best of Robert E. Howard Volume 2: Grim Lands”, p.31, Del Rey

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• Every civilization that has ever existed has ultimately collapsed.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  "Partial Transcript of an Interview With Kissinger on the State of Western World". Interview with James Reston, www.nytimes.com. October 13, 1974.

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• Is man’s civilization only a wrappage, through which the savage nature of him can still burst, infernal as ever?

  Thomas Carlyle

  Men, Savages, Stills

  Thomas Carlyle (1871). “The French revolution. A history”, p.210

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• Civilization, or that which is so called, has operated two ways to make one part of society more affluent and the other part more wretched than would have been the lot of either in a natural state.

  Thomas Paine

  Two, Way, Natural

  Thomas Paine (1797). “Agrarian Justice, opposed to Agrarian Law, and Agrarian Monopoly. Being a plan for ameliorating the condition of man, by creating in every nation a National Fund”, p.3

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