A man's hope measures his civilization. The attainability…

One measure of a civilization, either of an age or of a single individual, is what that age or person really wishes to do.…

— Ezra Pound

The measure of civilization in a people is to be found in its just appreciation of the wrongfulness of war.

— Arthur Helps

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

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Contrary to nature’s rule of “survival of the fittest,” we humans measure civilization by how we respond to the most vulnerable and the suffering.”

— Philip Yancey

How a society treats its disabled is the true measure of a civilization.

— Chen Guangcheng

“One measure of a civilization, in fact, is the percentage of misfits in its society.”

— Abe Kōbō

The measure of a civilization is in the courage, not of its soldiers, but of its bystanders.

— Jack McDevitt

The slum is the measure of civilization.

— Anonymous

The measure of a civilization is how it treats those at the dawn of life, the margins of life and the twilight of life.

— Hubert H. Humphrey

Work is not a curse; it is the prerogative of intelligence, the only means to manhood, and the measure of civilization.

— Calvin Coolidge

I have heard it said that the measure of a civilization is how it treats those who have hurt it. I think a further…

— Mark Goulston

“The first measure of any civilization is how it deals with its trash.”

— Micah R. Sisk

Violence is not necessary to destroy a civilization. Each civilization dies from indifference toward the unique values which created it.

— Nicolas Gomez Davila

Sentiment is the mightiest force in civilization; not sentimentality, but sentiment. Women will bring this into politics. Home, sweet home, is as powerful on…

— Judith Ellen Foster

What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions. Life is plurality, death is uniformity. By suppressing differences and…

— Octavio Paz