Civilization Quotes

2122 Civilization quotes by 1210 unique authors

The civilized are those who get more out of life than the uncivilized, and for this we are not likely to be forgiven. — Cyril Connolly
Civilization - a heap of rubble scavenged by scrawny English Lit. vultures. — Malcolm Muggeridge
Every new stroke of civilization has cost the lives of countless brave men, who have fallen defeated by the dragon, in their efforts to win… — D. H. Lawrence
To accept civilization as it is practically means accepting decay. — George Orwell
The US has developed two coordinate governing classes: the one, called 'business,' building cities, manufacturing and distributing goods, and holding complete and autocratic power over… — Thurman Arnold
Tell me what are the prevailing sentiments that occupy the minds of your young peoples, and I will tell you what is to be the… — Edmund Burke
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… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
The man who stands upon his own soil, who feels, by the laws of the land in which he lives,-by the laws of civilized nations,-he… — Edward Everett
Many of the greatest things man has achieved are not the result of consciously directed thought, and still less the product of a deliberately coordinated… — Friedrich August von Hayek
Armaments, universal debt and planned obsolescence - those are the three pillars of Western prosperity. — Aldous Huxley
The greatest problem for the human species, the solution of which nature compels him to seek, is that of attaining a civil society which can… — Immanuel Kant
Civilization means, above all, an unwillingness to inflict unnecessary pain ... those of us who heedlessly accept the commands of authority cannot yet claim to… — Harold Laski
War creates no absolutely new situation: it simply aggravates the permanent human situation so that we can no longer ignore it. Human life has always… — C.S. Lewis
When men are brought face to face with their opponents, forced to listen and learn and mend their ideas, they cease to be children and… — Walter Lippmann
It has often been found that profuse expenditures, heavy taxation, absurd commercial restrictions, corrupt tribunals, disastrous wars, seditions, persecutions, conflagrations, inundation, have not been able… — Thomas B. Macaulay
In the most civilized and progressive countries freedom of discussion is recognized as a fundamental principle. — C. E. M. Joad
Civilization is nothing else but the attempt to reduce force to being the last resort. — Jose Ortega y Gasset
Is there any man, is there any woman, let me say any child here that does not know that the seed of war in the… — Woodrow Wilson
A few suits of clothes, some money in the bank, and a new kind of fear constitute the main differences between the average American today… — Philip Wylie
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… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
In a state of nature, the weakest go to the wall; in a state of over-refinement, both the weak and the strong go to the… — Elbert Hubbard
Bare-faced covetousness was the moving spirit of civilization from its first dawn to the present day; wealth, and again wealth, and for the third time… — Friedrich Engels
In the last analysis civilization is based upon the food supply. — Will Durant
The three values which men held for centuries and which have now collapsed are: mysticism, collectivism, altruism. Mysticism - as a cultural power - died… — Ayn Rand
To embody a new paradigm of civilization - to learn to think like a planet in order to heal and nurture a planet - is… — David Spangler

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