Civilization Quote by Frank Herbert

“People, not commercial organizations or chains of command, are what make great civilizations work. Every civilization depends upon the quality of the individuals it…

— Frank Herbert

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

— Frank Herbert

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

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

To be clear, civilization is not the same as society. Civilization is a specific, hierarchical organization based on 'power over.' Dismantling civilization, taking down…

— Derrick Jensen

Civilization is first of all a moral thing. Without truth, respect for duty, love of neighbor, and virtue, everything is destroyed. The morality of…

— Henri Frederic Amiel

What has destroyed every previous civilization has been the tendency to the unequal distribution of wealth and power.

— Henry George

Civilization is not by means an easy thing to attain to. There are only two ways by which man can reach it. One is…

— Oscar Wilde

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

Each civilization has its own kind of pestilence and can control it only by reforming itself.

— Rene Dubos

Civilization consists in the multiplication and refinement of human wants.

— Robert Andrews Millikan

My idea of our civilization is that it is a shoddy, poor thing and full of cruelties, vanities, arrogances, meannesses and hypocrisies.

— Mark Twain