One of the tests of the civilization of people is the…

It is always possible that occasional individuals may have overstepped the law and humanity in treatment of criminals and those charged with crime, and…

— Herbert Hoover

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

— Arthur Helps

“Jean-Jacques Rousseau defined civilization as when people build fences. A very perceptive observation. And it’s true—all civilization is the product of a fenced-in lack…

— Haruki Murakami

The real index of civilization is when people are kinder than they need to be.

— Louis de Bernieres

America is the civilization of people engaged in transforming themselves. In the past, the stars of the performance were the pioneer and the immigrant.…

— Harold Rosenberg

“To have a viable civilization, people have to have a benign government, a semblance of education, spare time, imagination, and manners”

— Jonathan Chamberlain Williams

“History is a drop in humanity’s bucket of time. The period we usually call “history” takes up the last five thousand years. By its…

— David W. Tollen

“Riots come and go, wars come and go, but under the tumult, day after day, century after century, millions of people are doing nice…

— Dean Koontz

In our present high state of civilization, people are so much alike, that anything at all odd comes on one with the freshness and…

— Mary Russell Mitford

There is a dichotomy between people who feel economic principles should order human civilization and people who believe humanitarian principles should order human civilization.…

— Marianne Williamson

No race or civilization of people are just going to say, "Oh, instead of using real meat, let's just mash up a bunch of…

— Frank Fairfield

“But ever since the dawn of civilization, people have not been content to see events as unconnected and inexplicable. They have craved an understanding…

— Stephen Hawking

Water, like religion and ideology, has the power to move millions of people. Since the very birth of human civilization, people have moved to…

— Mikhail Gorbachev

Books are the building blocks of civilization and a people without books are a people without history, a people with no story older than…

— Louis L'Amour

You find as you look around the world that every single bit of progress in humane feeling, every improvement in the criminal law, every…

— Bertrand Russell