Assumption Quote by Chuck Palahniuk

“A civilization must be judged by its standards not by its expenditure.”

— Amit Kalantri

The foundation of any and every civilization, including our own, is private ownership of the means of production. Whoever wishes to criticize modern civilization,…

— Ludwig von Mises

One... gets an impression that civilization is something which was imposed on a resisting majority by a minority which understood how to obtain possession…

— Sigmund Freud

In America there is not one single element of civilization that is not made to depend, in the end, upon public opinion.

— Henry Ward Beecher

Every civilization depends on the quality of the individuals it produces. If you over-organize humans, over-legalize them, suppress their urge to greatness-they cannot work…

— Frank Herbert

Every civilization depends upon the quality of the individuals it produces.

— Frank Herbert

Civilization consists in the multiplication and refinement of human wants.

— Robert Andrews Millikan

Civilization depends upon the vigorous pursuit of the highest values by people who are intelligent enough to know that their values are qualified by…

— Reinhold Niebuhr

Few enjoyments are given from the open and liberal hand of nature; but by art, labor and industry we can extract them in great…

— David Hume

Before we can build a stable civilization worthy of humanity as a whole, it is necessary that each historical civilization should become conscious of…

— Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

If it is asserted that civilization is a real advance in the condition of man,--and I think that it is, though only the wise…

— Henry David Thoreau

If history could teach us anything, it would be that private property is inextricably linked with civilization.

— Ludwig von Mises