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Civilization Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton
- Over-civilization and barbarism are within an inch of each other. And a mark of both is the power of medicine-men.
- Civilization has run on ahead of the soul of man, and is producing faster than he can think and give thanks.
- When people talk as if the Crusades were nothing more than an aggressive raid against Islam, they seem to forget in the strangest way that…
- In a world flagrant with the failures of civilization, what is there particularly immortal about our own?
- Many clever men like you have trusted to civilization. Many clever Babylonians, many clever Egyptians, many clever men at the end of Rome. Can you…
- We all have a little weakness, which is very natural but rather misleading, for supposing that this epoch must be the end of the world…
- A good civilisation spreads over us freely like a tree, varying and yielding because it is alive. A bad civilisation stands up and sticks out…
- IF we desire European civilization to be a raid and a rescue, we shall insist rather that souls are in real peril than that their…
- The true savage is a slave, and is always talking about what he must do; the true civilised man is a free man, and is…
- Our civilization has decided that determining the guilt or innocence of men is a thing too important to be trusted to trained men. When it…
- Every high civilization decays by forgetting obvious things.
- The triangle of truisms, of father, mother and child, cannot be destroyed; it can only destroy those civilizations which disregard it.
More Civilization Quotes
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- We released 400,000 classified documents, the most extraordinary history of a war to ever have been released in our civilization. Those documents… — Julian Assange
- Debt is part of the human condition. Civilization is based on exchanges - on gifts, trades, loans - and the revenges and… — Margaret Atwood
- The papacy again, representing the traditional unity of European civilization, has also shown itself unable to limit effectively the push of nationalism. — Irving Babbitt
- Civilization... wrecks the planet from seafloor to stratosphere. — Richard Bach
- Civilization is a youth with a molotov cocktail in his hand. Culture is the Soviet tank or L.A. cop that guns him… — Edward Abbey
- Imagination has brought mankind through the dark ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination led Columbus to discover America. Imagination led… — L. Frank Baum
- Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men. — Jane Addams
- Civilization exists precisely so that there may be no masses but rather men alert enough never to constitute masses. — Georges Bernanos
- Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization. — Ambrose Bierce
- In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from… — Ambrose Bierce