Adversity Quote by Alexis de Tocqueville

The most advanced nations are always those who navigate the most.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

— Sigmund Freud

Every nation lives by its own intelligence, culture, skill and patience.

— Mariana Fulger

“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

Our civilization, bequeathed to us by fierce adventurers, eaters of meat and hunters, is so full of hurry and combat, so busy about many…

— James Joyce

Civilizations, I believe, come to birth and proceed to grow by successfully responding to successive challenges. They break down and go to pieces if…

— Arnold J. Toynbee

Civilization is not by means an easy thing to attain to. There are only two ways by which man can reach it. One is…

— Oscar Wilde

Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The greatest difficulty with the world is not its ability to produce, but the unwillingness to share.

— Roy L. Smith

Civilization does not have to perish. The brutes are winning only by default.

— Ayn Rand

The luxuries of civilization satisfy only those wants which they themselves create.

— Apsley Cherry-Garrard

Many are stubborn in the pursuit of the path that they have chosen, very few in pursuit of the goal.

— Tsepiso Makhubedu