Acquire Quote by African Spir

A good civilisation spreads over us freely like a tree, varying and yielding because it is alive. A bad civilisation stands up and sticks…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Before we can build a stable civilization worthy of humanity as a whole, it is necessary that each historical civilization should become conscious of…

— Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

There must be more equality established in society, or morality will never gain ground, and this virtuous equakity will not rest firmly even when…

— Mary Wollstonecraft

The foundations of civilization are no stronger and no more enduring than the corporate integrity of the homes on which they rest. If the…

— Billy Graham

No civilization has survived the ongoing destruction of its natural support systems. Nor will ours.

— Lester R. Brown

A civilization which leaves so large a number of its participants unsatisfied and drives them into revolt neither has nor deserves the prospect of…

— Sigmund Freud

History fails to record a single precedent in which nations subject to moral decay have not passed into political and economic decline. There has…

— Douglas MacArthur

“One thus gets an impression that civilization is something which was imposed on a resisting majority by a minority which understood how to obtain…

— Sigmund Freud

Even today to be civilised is held to be synonymous with being westernised. Advanced countries devote large resources to formulating and spreading ideas and…

— Indira Gandhi

History shows us that other highly developed forms of civilization have collapsed. Who knows whether the same fate does not await our own?

— Christian Lous Lange

Civilization never stands still; if in one country it is falling back, in another it is changing, evolving, becoming more complicated, bringing fresh experience…

— Arthur Keith

If civilization is to survive, it must live on the interest, not the capital, of nature.

— Ronald Wright