Civilization Quote by David Gerrold

The civilization of a country consists in the quality of life that is lived there, and this quality shows plainest in the things that…

— Albert J. Nock

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

— Frank Herbert

I put forward as a general definition of civilization, that a civilized society is exhibiting the five qualities of Truth, Beauty, Adventure, Art, Peace.

— Alfred North Whitehead

A good civilization gives the greatest possible scope to the common passions and makes them intelligible among the great number of people.

— Meridel Le Sueur

The quantity of civilization is measured by the quality of imagination.

— Victor Hugo

The real index of civilization is when people are kinder than they need to be.

— Louis de Bernieres

The measure of any great civilization is its cities and a measure of a city's greatness is to be found in the quality of…

— John Ruskin

“What makes a civilization real to its inhabitants, in the end, is not just the splendid edifices at it centre, nor even the smooth…

— Niall Ferguson

There's no such thing as civilization. The word just means the art of living in cities.

— Roger Zelazny

Civilization is a fiction which becomes a fact only as long as everyone can believe in it. It is the cynic, rather than the…

— Helen McCloy

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

The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards

— Walter Bagehot