Civilization Quote by Carroll Quigley

Western civilization presents one of the most difficult tasks for historical analysis, because it is not yet finished, because we are a part of…

— Carroll Quigley

History teaches us that a given view has been abandoned in favor of another by all men, or by all competent men, or perhaps…

— Leo Strauss

“To make the distinction unmistakably clear: Civilization is the vital force in human history; culture is that inert mass of institutions and organizations which…

— Edward Abbey

“Wasn’t it made clear that civilization is not an end in itself but a theater or gymnasium in which the evolving individual finds facilities…

— Tom Robbins

Once we allow ourselves to be disobedient to the test of an accountant's profit, we have begun to change our civilization.

— John Maynard Keynes

Simple practices like conscious breathing and smiling are very important. They can change our civilization.

— Nhat Hanh

I feel that I'm in a very interesting position, where I'm standing back to look at this change, at this moment in history of…

— Hiroshi Sugimoto

“All civilization comes through literature now, especially in our country. A Greek got his civilization by talking and looking, and in some measure a…

— William Dean Howells

Civilization comes at a cost of manliness. It comes at a cost of wildness, of risk, of strife. It comes at a cost of…

— Jack Donovan

The downfall of every civilization comes, not from the moral corruption of the common man, but rather from the moral complacency of common men…

— E. Digby Baltzell

It's a curious thing, this thing we call civilization...we think it is an affair of epochs, and nations. It's really an affair of individuals.…

— William Dean Howells

The felt unreliability of human experience brought about by the inhuman acceleration of historical change has led every sensitive modern mind to the recording…

— Susan Sontag