Civilization Quote by Anonymous

If we wish our civilization to survive we must break with the habit of deference to great men.

— Karl Popper

Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men.

— Jane Addams

Men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all the other alternatives.

— Abba Eban

Man is his own worst enemy. [Lat., Nihil inimicius quam sibi ipse.]

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.

— Ayn Rand

We despair of changing the habits of men, still we would alter institutions, the habits of millions of men.

— George Iles

Civilization is that mode of conduct which points out to man the path of duty.

— Mahatma Gandhi

A civilization is built on what is required of men, not on that which is provided for them.

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

But the works of man are impotent against the assaults of nature . . .

— Edward Gibbon

Men have been barbarians much longer than they have been civilized. They are only precariously civilized, and within us there is the propensity, persistent…

— Walter Lippmann

A habitual disuse of physical forces totally destroys the moral; and men lose at once the power of protecting themselves, and of discerning the…

— Joel Barlow