Culture Quote by Elizabeth Janeway

Civilization is an enormous improvement on the lack thereof.

— P. J. O'Rourke

So-called Western Civilization, as practised in half of Europe, some of Asia and a few parts of North America, is better than anything else…

— P. J. O'Rourke

... there are some who, believing that all is for the best in the best of possible worlds, and that to-morrow is necessarily better…

— Katharine Fullerton Gerould

Civilization in certain respects is as inadequate as it was a thousand years ago.

— Gertrude Atherton

Whilst all the world is in pursuit of power, culture corrects the theory of success.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

If we learn anything from the history of economic development, it is that culture makes all the difference.

— David Landes

A better world could be brought about only by better individuals.

— Pierre de Coubertin

Each generation supposes that the world was simpler for the one before it.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

Every new generation believes its own period to be absolutely superior intellectually - greater than all past cultures yet equal among its modern cultures.

— Criss Jami

But we look back now, and we realize the Great Society was not a success.

— Alphonso Jackson

You know, people come from cultures all around the world. Many of those cultures, you know, are not terribly successful. You can tell because…

— Amy Wax

The raw fact is that every successful example of economic development this past century – every case of a poor nation that worked its…

— Paul Krugman