The quantity of civilization is measured by the quality of…

A commonplace of political rhetoric has it that the quality of a civilization may be measured by how it cares for its elderly. Just…

— Daniel Patrick Moynihan

As an inclusive quality, imagination is thus our primary force for progress, whatever progress is.

— John Ralston Saul

The quality of the imagination is to flow and not to freeze.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The moral development of a civilization is measured by the breadth of its sense of community.

— Anatol Rapoport

“A nation’s level of civilization can be measured by the way it treats its oldest and weakest citizens.”

— Hendrik Groen

The home is the most important factor in civilization, and that civilization is to be measured at different stages largely by the development in…

— Herbert Spencer

In the last analysis civilization itself is measured by the way in which children will live and what chance they will have in the…

— Mary Heaton Vorse

The Strength of a civilization is not measured by its ability to fight wars, but rather by its ability to prevent them.

— Gene Roddenberry

In the vast cosmical changes, the universal life comes and goes in unknown quantities, ... sowing an animalcule here, crumbling a star there, oscillating…

— Victor Hugo

It would take a civilization far more advanced than ours, unbelievably advanced, to begin to manipulate negative energy to create gateways to the past.…

— Michio Kaku

Justice has its anger, my lord Bishop, and the wrath of justice is an element of progress. Whatever else may be said of it,…

— Victor Hugo

Human history, like all great movements, was cyclical, and returned to the point of beginning. The idea of indefinite progress in a right line…

— Edward Bellamy

We are somehow the children of the planet, we are somehow its finest hour; we bind time, we bind the past, we anticipate the…

— Terence McKenna

Number is different from quantity.

— Gregory Bateson

The laws of thermodynamics, as empirically determined, express the approximate and probable behavior of systems of a great number of particles, or, more precisely,…

— J. Willard Gibbs