Civilization Quote by Bill Mauldin

Civilization is an enormous improvement on the lack thereof.

— P. J. O'Rourke

No great advance has been made in science, politics, or religion without controversy.

— Lyman Beecher

No civilization on the brink of collapse has ever changed fast enough to avert collapse.

— Joel Salatin

No great advance has ever been made in science, politics, or religion, without controversy.

— Lyman Beecher

The great achievements of civilization have not come from government bureaus.

— Milton Friedman

Civilization is now under the tyranny of relativism.

— Pope Benedict XVI

In counterfactual history, nothing is certain.

— Robert Dallek

Every advance in civilization has been denounced as unnatural while it was recent

— Bertrand Russell

Technical civilization has made a great error in not suppressing death, the only human reality still intact

— Jacques Ellul

There are no inevitabilities in history

— Paul Johnson

Unfortunately, the optimistic view that "classical civilization" handed down certain fundamental works that managed to include the knowledge contained in the lost writings has…

— Lucio Russo

Increasingly constructive doubt is the sign of advancing civilization.

— Jerome Frank