Civilization Quote by Ayn Rand

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

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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

— Jane Addams

Civilization is the sum total of all those activities that allow men to transcend mere biological existence and reach for a richer mental, aesthetic,…

— Anthony Daniels

What is civilization? I answer, the power of good women.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

As women go, so goes civilization.

— Laura Schlessinger

The solution to women’s issues can only be achieved in a free and democratic society in which human energy is liberated, the energy of…

— Tawakkol Karman

The worth of men consists in their liability to persuasion. They can persuade and can be persuaded by the disclosure of alternatives, the better…

— Alfred North Whitehead

The basic problem is that our civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man.

— Andre Malraux

“, civilization is an ever-changing tacit agreement, culturally inherited, not chosen at birth. Civilization is the invention of man, my big friend. It is…

— Peter Jelen

It is only men who are free, who create the inventions and intellectual works which to us moderns make life worth while.

— Albert Einstein

It is only by having desire thwarted, and thereby learning to control it — in other words, by becoming civilized — that men become fully human.

— Theodore Dalrymple

Civilization enables us constantly to profit from knowledge which we individually do not possess and because each individual's use of his particular knowledge may…

— Friedrich August von Hayek