Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy.

Women will ignore precedent and startle civilization with their progress.

— Nikola Tesla

The measure of progress of civilization is the progress of the people.

— George Bancroft

Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is…

— Ayn Rand

Civilization may progress, human nature will remain the same throughout all ages.

— H. P. Blavatsky

One cannot deny that in former times man's life had been one of toil and hardship. It is correct to say, therefore, that modern…

— Haile Selassie

“Most of the evils attributed to civilization and progress—such as social inequality and subordination, murder, theft, rape, vandalism, and conquest—are found concentrated in the…

— Lawrence H. Keeley

The progress of society is mainly the improvement in the condition of the workingmen of the world.

— Rutherford B. Hayes

If it had not been for the discontent of a few fellows who had not been satisfied with their conditions, you would still be…

— Eugene V. Debs

Chastity is the cement of civilization and progress. Without it there is no stability in society, and without it one cannot attain the Science…

— Mary Baker Eddy

Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.

— Herbert Spencer

Politics I conceive to be nothing more than the science of the ordered progress of society along the lines of greatest usefulness and convenience…

— Woodrow Wilson

when women progress, all of society benefits.

— Hillary Clinton

We make progress in society only if we stop cursing and complaining about its shortcomings and have the courage to do something about them.

— Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

The crime against nature will never make any great progress in society unless people are prompted to it by some particular custom.

— Baron de Montesquieu

Is civilization progress? The challenge, I think, is clear; and, as clearly, the final answer will be given not by our amassing of knowledge,…

— Charles Lindbergh