Nature of man Quote by Frank Herbert

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

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

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

— Frank Herbert

All the civilizations we know have been created and directed by small intellectual aristocracies, never by people in the mass. The power of crowds…

— Gustave Le Bon

“Highly organized complex societies are delicate machines. It does not take much to bring them to ruin. ‘For want of a nail…the kingdom was…

— Paul Kriwaczek

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

Entranced by promises of a material paradise of limitless luxury, humanity has too long ignored the mismatch between the imperatives of our existence as…

— David Korten

“Successful business people are vital in any society, but successful people who add value are the cradle of great civilizations.”

— JOHN TASKINSOY

In the end, what brings civilizations down is when the elites lose confidence in the rightness of their cause.

— Charles Krauthammer

We now face the prospect of a kind of global civil war between those who refuse to consider the consequences of civilization's relentless advance…

— Al Gore

“, civilization is an ever-changing tacit agreement, culturally inherited, not chosen at birth. Civilization is the invention of man, my big friend. It is…

— Peter Jelen

All that is great in man comes through work; and civilization is its product.

— Samuel Smiles