Civilization Quote by Amor Towles

“From the time when the exercise of the intellect became a source of strength and of wealth, we see that every addition to science,…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

“Poets write beautiful words to describe savagery-wrapped civilization nowadays.”

— Toba Beta

“In the last stage of civilization, Poetry, Religion, and Philosophy will be one.”

— Thoreau

“When evening comes, I return to my home, and I go into my study; and on the thresh-hold, I take off my everyday clothes,…

— Niccolò Machiavelli

“The preparation of good food is merely another expression of art, one of the joys of civilized living…”

— Dione Lucas

“no matter how intelligent, perceptive and gifted you were, no matter how entirely you lived for the ascetic rewards of the intellect and eschewed…

— Iain M. Banks

“I used to capture the vastness and the immensity of the world and confine it to the limited pages of the parchment.”

— Hark Herald Sarmiento

“What is a course of history, or philosophy, or poetry, no matter how well selected, or the best society, or the most admirable routine…

— Henry David Thoreau

“They were boastful, triumphant; it seemed to both that they had read every book in the world; known every sin, passion, and joy. Civilizations…

— Virginia Woolf

“Civilization... is another word for respect for life. One can't have too much respect for a loveliness that's brittle as spun glass.”

— Elizabeth Goudge

“Here mankind discarded civilization as if it were an article of clothing and left behind every decent feeling: love; loyalty; simply everything. Here it…

— Schoschana Rabinovici

“To witness the awe of human beings delighting in their own hands forming the written word was humbling and he understood it profoundly at…

— T.K. Naliaka