Civilization Quotes - Page 5

• Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization.

  Winston Churchill

  Political, Democracy, Abhorrent

  Winston Churchill (1952). “The Second World War”

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• Civilization depends on morality.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Morality, Depends

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.13, Harvard University Press

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• Civilization...is a matter of imponderables, of delight in the thins of the mind, of love of beauty, of honor, grace, courtesy, delicate feeling. Where imponderables, are things of first importance, there is the height of civilization, and, if at the same time, the power of art exists unimpaired, human life has reached a level seldom attained and very seldom surpassed.

  Edith Hamilton

  Love, Art, Grace

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• Civilization is what makes you sick.

  Paul Gauguin

  Sick

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

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• To accept civilization as it is practically means accepting decay.

  George Orwell

  Mean, Political, Decay

  George Orwell (2009). “Critical Essays”

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• I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Sisterhood, Good Woman, Empowering Women

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.12, Harvard University Press

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• It is impossible to overlook the extent to which civilization is built upon a renunciation of instinct.

  Sigmund Freud

  Intuition, Natural Instinct, Impossible

  Sigmund Freud, Peter (AFT) Gay, Christopher Hitchens (2010). “Civilization and Its Discontents”, W W Norton & Company Incorporated

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• Without adventure civilization is in full decay.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Travel, Adventure, Decay

  Alfred North Whitehead (1967). “Adventures of Ideas”, p.279, Simon and Schuster

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• A civilization is a heritage of beliefs, customs, and knowledge slowly accumulated in the course of centuries, elements difficult at times to justify by logic, but justifying themselves as paths when they lead somewhere, since they open up for man his inner distance.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Distance, Men, Heritage

  Antoine de Saint Exupery (1942). “Flight to Arras”

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• For me, politeness is a sine qua non of civilization.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Atheism, Polite, Politeness

  Robert A. Heinlein (1960). “Beyond This Horizon”, Roc

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• Civilization degrades the many to exalt the few.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Degrade

  Amos Bronson Alcott (1877). “Table-talk”

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• The path of civilization is paved with tin cans.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Tin Cans, Tin, Path

  Harry Persons Taber, Elbert Hubbard (1904). “The Philistine”

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• Civilizations die from suicide, not by murder.

  Arnold J. Toynbee

  Suicide, Murder, Dies

  "A Time of Troubles" by S. Michael Craven, www.christianpost.com. June 29, 2011.

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

  Julian Jaynes

  Art, Doe, Towns

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• Women know what men have long forgotten. The ultimate economic and spiritual unit of any civilization is still the family.

  Clare Boothe Luce

  Spiritual, Women, Long

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• As long as our civilization is essentially one of property, of fences, of exclusiveness, it will be mocked by delusions.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Long, Belief, Fence

  1850 Representative Men,'Napoleon, the Man of the World'.

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

  Ariel Durant

  Women, Memorable, Stifling

  Will Durant, Ariel Durant (1944). “The Story of Civilization: Caesar and Christ, a history of Roman civilization and of Christianity from their beginnings to A.D. 325”

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• Our most intimate contact with civilizations long since dust has been through the art which has survived them.

  Carlisle Floyd

  Art, Dust, Long

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• The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself.

  Albert Camus

  Writing, Purpose, Destroying

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• Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.

  Will Durant

  Change, Existence, Geology

  "What is Civilization?". Ladies' Home Journal, Volume LXIII, January 1946.

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• So I should say that civilizations begin with religion and stoicism: they end with scepticism and unbelief, and the undisciplined pursuit of individual pleasure. A civilization is born stoic and dies epicurean.

  Will Durant

  Stoicism, Pleasure, Individual

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• There is but little room for doubt that Egypt led the way in the creation of the earliest known group of civilizations which arose on both sides of the land bridge between Africa and Eurasia in the fourth millennium B.C.

  James Henry Breasted

  Egypt, Land, Bridges

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• Peace on earth would mean the end of civilization as we know it.

  Joseph Heller

  Mean, Earth, Ends

  Joseph Heller, Adam J. Sorkin (1993). “Conversations with Joseph Heller”, p.287, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• The age in which we live can only be characterized as one of barbarism. Our civilization is in the process not only of being militarized, but also being brutalized.

  Alva Myrdal

  Age, Process, Barbarism

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• There is such a thing as too much couth.

  S. J. Perelman

  Too Much, Gentility

  1971 In the Observer, 24 Sep.

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