High Civilization Quotes
- From my childhood it has been my conviction that men would reach the planets in my lifetime . . . this conviction . . .… — Freeman Dyson
- Every high civilization decays by forgetting obvious things. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
- There can be no high civilization where there is not ample leisure. — Henry Ward Beecher
- It is in the long run essential to the growth of any new and high civilization that small groups of men can escape from their… — Freeman Dyson
- A high civilization is a pyramid: it can stand only on a broad base; its primary prerequisite is a strong and soundly consolidated mediocrity. — Friedrich Nietzsche
- One might enumerate the items of high civilization, as it exists in other countries, which are absent from the texture of American life, until it… — Henry James